On 7/31/07, dawn_atherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Judy Ryder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have we heard a trainer, breeder, or seller of Icelandic Horses claim > that the horses can carry a 300 lb man all day? > > ---------------No, I haven't. > > > Is this true? > > ---------------No, it's not. > > > Is it logical? > > ---------------No, it's not. > > Dawn Bruin-Slot > Fuzzy Logic Equine >
this brings up an interesting point i think. Seems to me a lot of misinformation comes from a small handful of sources and is accepted broadly as fact when its not. I for instance bought my icelandic from a small breeder/trainer/seller of icelandic horses. She didn't give me any of these broad based myths as facts. The only person from iceland that i have ever "talked" to is a person who owns trains icelandics in a wonderful natural horsemanship manner and has never offered any of this misinformation as credible, in fact thinks most of it is pretty ridiculous as I do. So where is it coming from? There are so few icelandic breeders/trainers/sellers who put out any information to the public at large about the breed. Relatively there are very few people in the US who actually travel to iceland and talk to breeders/sellers/trainers there. so who puts all this wrong stuff out there?? Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
