Icelandic horses

We are looking for a farm worker.  The job would start sometime between 10. December 2011 and 5. January 2012, and the worker has to be ready to stay for half a year or more.  The work is mostly stable work, that is, milking cows, cleaning the stables, and similar.  Contact us for more information.

Unun from Langhúsum is a fun natural tolter, with a lot of nice energy.  She got a new home with Andrei Chivvis-Shahnazarov and Nicole Grzelak in Arizona, USA.  Before she was exported she was bred to Gammur from Steinnesi, that is a 1. prize stallion which throws so nice horses, with good temperament, nice clear gaits and he’s pinto, so many of the offspring are pinto.  Now Unun had her baby this summer, Glanni fra Adobe Canyon.  He is so cute, and I look forward to how the young Arizonian horse will do, I’m sure he’ll carry his Icelandic heritage and pedigree forward, and be a friendly, hard working horse with lots of clear tolt and good energy   Congratulations Andrei and Nicole, and thank you for your beautiful pictures

Kraftur is 1 year old now, he went to a big dog show this spring and was the 3. best dog in the breed, and all remarks about him are positive and we are very happy over his results. 

Blákápa has found a new home, she is going to our dear friend Kelly Lengle, in Pennsylvania, where I know she will have a very good life.  Blákápa is now with the highly evaluated Tígull from Gýgjarhóli, so she might bring a very elegant passenger with her when she goes abroad.

Watch Kraftur come with me to fetch the riding horses home to the stable.

Láki, my husband, has a big hobby besides the horses, and that is birds, and he ringmarks a huge number of birds each year (then the birds get a little light harmless ring on their leg, and other people that see them in other places in the world notify nature institutions, so their travels can be tracked, and this helps nature research a lot, which also helps people understand and help the birds).  The boys help him too, and here you can see Orri hold a chick with his brother, and then release it. 

Heimir started working a bit on a tractor, by himself, this spring, he’s dragging this contraption to raise the small grass and to crush dung into smaller bits, so the grass grows better and fertilizer works better. 

The horses are having a good life, Feykivinda had a pretty black colt, and the young horses in the pasture were very interested in looking at me and looking at her.

At the end of the day, it’s good to sleep.  The boys have two seperate rooms, but after all, sleeping together has it’s charm.

Each summer there is a special day at Knappstadir.  There is one of the 2 oldest timber churches in Iceland there, and it’s tiny, maybe 25 people can sit there.  There is one congregation per year, and this summer it was 10. July.   On that day there is always a big group of people coming, 2-3 times more than the church can take, so people simply sit in the graveyard.  After the service there is coffee and cakes in the graveyard (we simply all bring a cake and then eat together), and we have such a good time together.  There is always sun on that day.  Many of the people coming always come on horseback, and as usual, me and our 11 yo son Heimir went to the church and to take part of the groupride.  At http://www.feykir.is/archives/37841 you can see pictures of the church, the coffee and cakes, and the surroundings, and here below you can see my pictures from the groupride.

The boys like to ride.  Here we are going on a ride together, Heimir (11 year old) is preparing Sæla from Langhúsum, his spirited Gustur from Holi daughter, Orri Sigurbjorn (5 years old) is preparing Skima, our trusted veteran that is such a great caretaker of our boys when they’re taking the first steps in their riding pants.  Then we went out on a ride, I was on Blakapa, the pinto in the background, had a leadrope to Skima (ponying her), and we simply had such a good time together. 

Elisa from Langhusum had a foal, a bay pinto mare foal, and that was a happy day   They are both doing very well, and the foal is so so cute   This is totally what we wished for there, a mare, and in this beautiful color, and she’s got such a nice pedigree, this will become a good mare.  Elisa is evaluated, with super temperament, and after the famous Feykir frá Hafsteinsstöðum.  The foal is after the 1. prize IS1996156290 – Gammur from Steinnesi, which is 4-gaited with 9 for tolt and 9 for trot, and has been successful in throwing very nice offspring with good temperament, nice gaits, and a good number of horses that do well at evaluations.  Enjoy the pictures of the caring mum and cute foal.

We had a broodmare, Harpa from Neðri-Hrepp, that we loved a lot.  She was fun, energetic, talented, courageous, so smooth and with good footlift, and we just loved her. 

The roan (color changer) color is on the brink of extinction in the Icelandic horse.  It is a wonderful color, where the horse shows it’s color in the wintertime, becomes white (with colored head and tail) in the spring and fall, and in the summer it’s like it’s been sprinkled with sugar.  Now there was a roan stallion we could use, a looker with good footlift and good pedigree, and we took Harpa to him.  This was Heimir from Vatnsleysu.

We were so happy when the foal was born, it was a mare, and she was black roan (from dad) and pinto (from mother).  And we got so much happier when she grew up, because she showed good footlift and such beautiful gaits already as a youngster.

Now when she became adult we didn’t have as much time to train her as we’d have wanted, but she was evaluated this spring, and it was a good start.  But, what is more important, is that she shows a lot of potential, she needs balance in the gaits, as she’s working with footlift and reach and it takes time to know what to do with all this.  And she’s 5-gaited, and a good size (139 cm), with energy and is a fun ride, the future is just looking bright.   There are wonderful horses coming together in her, in her pedigree you find Hervar from Sauðárkróki, Dagur from Kjarnholtum, Glampi from Vatnsleysu and thereby Albína from Vatnsleysu.  And, last but not least, Hersing is a blast to ride, so delightful.

So, here are for fun some pictures of her. 

 

One of our broodmares, Feykivinda, is for sale, as we have to make our number of broodmares a bit smaller.  She is blue dun + silver dapple, a good mare with nice talents, very good temperament, and has thrown 2 silver dapple babies without any complications, she’s got a good fertility and is a good mother.  She is available for a good price, 250.000 isk.  We have two stallions that we can offer her buyer to breed to for free (included in the sale), or send her to another stallion of your choice (stud fee then not included).  She is proven to throw very nice and colorful babies, and she is just 8 years old, so she can be trained more as a riding horse, or simply be a good young broodmare.

Sold.

Here I attach some of our broodmares, pictures taken yesterday.

Dúkka from Sauðárkróki, black, Birta from Steinnesi, cremello, Elísa from Langhúsum, flaxen with blaze, Drífa from Keldulandi, strawberry roan (very white exactly now).