facts about icelandic horses

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I would like to know more about icelandic horses and their use pulling a cart? How are they on a farm? Thank You Kirstin in NM

-- Kirstin L. Peterson (kpet111058@aol.com), October 09, 2001

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Kirsten, I think it has to do with the individual horse, as to your success. However, Icelandic horses do NOT handle heat very well, even in our area.

-- Judy in IN (whileaway3@cs.com), October 10, 2001.



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Kristin, I lived in a village outside Keflavik, Iceland in the 1970's (military family) for 2 years. We had a lot of Icelandic horses running around over there. I mean literally, running around. There are few fences to contain horses, sheep, cattle, ect. over there. These horses are smaller than the standard horse, more like a cross between a pony and a small mustang. I never saw one pulling any carts while over there, but maybe I wasn't paying much attention way back then. In the two years we lived off-base, I could never get any of these horses to come close to me enough to hand feed them. They would come into our yard and graze, but they spooked easy at anything new or loud.

Maybe you will have a different impression of them here in the States. I imagine if they are raised in a controlled enviroment, with human contact, they would make a fine draft horse for a small cart.

Hope you have good luck in you inquiry about this breed.

-- Carol from Dixie (plantlady51@webtv.net), October 10, 2001.


Just a little advice, any horse you buy to pull have them show the horse to you pulling a cart! when I bought my morgan she was supposed to be cart broke , well we put a cart we bought on her recently and she seemed fine[ had been practicing in areana with her dragging fencing with poles and she was fine]but after about 20 steps something spooked her and she came unglued[ thank god we were leading her with a halter]she spun in circles with the cart flying around like a battering ram. My husband didnt let go [ she would have killed her self trying to get the cart off] and when he managed to calm her we got the cart off but it was very scary.Needless to say when I fix the cart wheel I am selling it and the two harnesses and just riding her regular.

-- kathy h (ckhart55@earthlink.net), October 10, 2001.

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