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Are you looking for a horse that is 100% suited
to YOUR needs? The horse of your dreams? This dream can be
made possible by joining Beaver Dam Farm
on a journey of a lifetime- the raising of your dream horse.
You will be a part of every step, receiving video updates
and frequent emails. We offer a very special program called
Beaver Dam Farm’s formula for the Ideal Fjord. Read
on and see what you think of our program and if it is something
for you.
What Will This Program Mean To You?
There is something extra special about a bond
between horse and owner. In order to achieve this bond the
horse and owner must be able to understand and respect each
other. The horse must be willing, obedient, and mannerly.
Your Fjord will NOT be pushy! At Beaver Dam
Farm we create a bond with firm training, and train our horses
to respect and love all people. They do not know bad experiences,
they only know trust and kindness. These are the horses that
will make the bond between horse and owner extra special.
Others who have put their horses through this program couldn't
be more pleased with the results. By four, BDF trained horses
are solid riding and driving horses. They have impeccable
manners. They can be fantastic performance horses and wonderful
pets at the same time.
What Is This Program All About? -
A REALLY GOOD INVESTMENT
A really good Fjordhorse. . . one that’s
been bred and raised to be about 95% perfect is a good investment
in terms of money . . . but much more important is the investment
in your future satisfaction, pleasure, and SAFETY!
Beaver Dam Farm will
sell you an extremely high quality weanling, yearling,
or 2 yr. old Fjord at a reduction in price, and we’ll
train him for you until you are ready to take him home.
While you are preparing your farm for your new arrivals
you will know that your horse is also being prepared.
Don’t waste time trying to find a horse when your
property is ready and waiting! We have something for you
NOW.
The right kind of Fjord, raised the right kind
of way, can be the horse of your dreams.
We’re telling you the honest truth. We’ve bred,
raised, and trained high quality Fjords for 27 years,
and we know the breed! -- In 27 years, we’ve
imported over 100 Fjords from Europe. -- We’ve had over
90 foals born on the farm – Several hundred Fjords have
been purchased from Beaver Dam Farm, and have gone on to be
the beloved companions of their owners.
The Best Fjords are healthy,
sound, and fertile. -- They are totally willing to do whatever’s
asked of them, whether it’s dressage, driving, chasing
cows, fox hunting, packing elk -- THE BEST FJORDS DO IT ALL!
They have straight legs, strong bones, and great hooves. –
They live to a grand old age and stay healthy and usable.
-- They stay healthy and sound on minimal, natural feed. --
Of course, they need good care. But, they don’t require
pampering. In fact, they do best in a natural environment.
The best Fjords are very good looking
& good moving horses. They are athletes able
to compete with horses and ponies of any breed, and win. --
And, as I say, and it’s worth saying again . . . The
best Fjords are great looking horses. They have a
smoothness of line, and stylish flair. They are alert and
upheaded with a great deal of presence! - A really good Fjord
makes you turn around and take another look.
It all starts with
his heritage…
It starts way before he’s born…
• NO SURPRISES -- The perfect horse
has no surprises for you! The last thing you want
is surprises! To eliminate the unexpected, a good
breeder like Beaver Dam Farm starts with a recorded family
line of horses. . . . horses known to be good horses -- No
surprises! -- No surprises because the pedigrees
of sire and dam show horses that are proven to be sound in
body and mind. Horses that are tried, true, and have been
tested by time and use. -- Known horses that have proven themselves
to be sound, healthy, athletic, capable, and willing using
horses for riding and driving. –
• The first thing a breeder of
race horses does is study the pedigree of any horse he’s
thinking of racing. -- Why? Because fast and winning race
horses produce more of the same. --- ****
• It’s the same principle if you’re
looking for a good quality using horse for your family to
ride and drive pleasurably and safely. -- If the pedigree
of your horse is filled with these kind of good horses, then
there’s every likelihood that your horse will fulfill
his heritage and prove himself safe and pleasant for your
family.
Note:
Our Beaver Dam Farm horses are of European breeding. The European
Fjord Studbooks (breed registries) are particularly rigorous
and strict regarding quality, soundness, and usability. ---
European Fjord horses are continuously evaluated for conformation,
movement, and usability. -- Horses with inheritable physical
conditions are eliminated. Conditions such as overbites, under
bites, malformed genitals, auto-immune diseases, pigmentation
problems, etc. –
Horses that have character traits making them
unpleasant to use are eliminated. --- The approach
to breeding Fjords in Europe is unsentimental. There’s
an absolute dedication to maintaining the quality, strength,
athletic ability, and temperament of the Fjord breed.
At Beaver Dam Farm, we breed our
Fjords on the European model
With this kind of professional breeding -
there are no surprises.
BREEDING YOU CAN COUNT ON –
Beaver Dam Farm Fjordhorses come from bloodlines
of horses that are known for producing health, soundness,
athletic ability & good minds -- This means a
baby horse bred and born at Beaver Dam Farm was born with
everything it takes to make a pleasurable, healthy, using
horse. A horse that’s easy to keep and a joy to use.
Note: We want to stress in
the strongest possible terms the importance of a quality pedigree,
one that has a history of producing healthy, sound horses
of athletic ability. –
This is what we mean by “no surprises”
---No guesswork --
Buying a horse that comes from an unknown pedigree
is chancy. There can be inheritable problems in those bloodlines
that haven’t yet shown up when you purchase the horse.
Some problems only come when the horse is a certain age. For
instance, we once knew a Morgan breeder who told us their
stallion sometimes produced blindness that occurred about
age 10. Imagine that! Knowing of this serious,
inheritable fault, the breeder just kept breeding and selling.
--
European Fjord breed registries would
never allow any stallion to continue breeding
once they knew such a flaw existed. Even much less tragic
and serious flaws are not allowed to continue once they are
discovered in a certain bloodline. --- It can be tragic if
you are the owner of such a horse. ---
Owning an unhealthy, unsound horse
is truly
heartbreaking & enormously expensive. --
YOUR
HORSE’S HISTORY
So important we just can’t stress this enough!
One of the most important things to consider
when purchasing a horse is the horse’s history. No one
truly knows the history of any horse, unless they have raised
and trained the horse from birth. Due to that fact, you could
come across unexpected problems.
Not everyone who sells horses is completely
honest. Or, some owners simply don’t know what
happened to the horse before they bought it. This can be very
dangerous, to both the new owner and the horse.
For example . . . . if someone is out
to buy a driving horse, they may be told the horse drives
fine and has never had an accident. But how do you really
know for sure? The only way you are going to find
out is to hitch the horse yourself, putting yourself in a
potentially dangerous situation.
Bottom line – the only way to truly know
your horse’s history is to have owned him since birth.
Our program eliminates the mystery of your new horse’s
background. You know everything about your horse, and you
know that the horse has been handled and schooled by professional
trainers with love, respect, and firmness.
With Beaver Dam Farm’s program
the new owner is guaranteed updates on all stages of the horses’
life. This includes video footage of various training sessions,
photo’s and frequent e-mails. The best part
about this program is that the horse will be trained to do
what YOU want to do. This means that you don’t have
to spend a lot of money on a horse that is either trained
or being trained to drive, when all you plan on doing is riding.
If that was the case at Beaver Dam Farm we would be training
your horse strictly to ride, so your dollars aren’t
wasted on something you don’t want to do. We gaurantee
that you will be told everything about your horse throughout
his training.
The Life of a Beaver
Dam Farm Broodmare
A MARE NOT OPTIMALLY HEALTHY
CANNOT PRODUCE AN OPTIMALLY HEALTHY FOAL
At Beaver
Dam Farm, all our pregnant mares are given optimum care throughout
their pregnancies. For the last three months of gestation,
raspberry leaves are added to their feed strengthening the
uterus for the tremendously strong contractions the mare needs
to birth her foal quickly and without harm. A mare
not healthy and vigorous enough to expel her foal quickly
may produce a foal that’s been weakened by the experience
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RAISED BY THE SEA IN HEALTH
& TRANQUILITY
A Beaver Dam Farm broodmare
has spent the eleven months of her gestation in a huge, hilly
pasture overlooking the sea. She has other pregnant mares
as companions, which eliminates stress and allows all her
energies to be directed toward producing a large, healthy
foal. -- She spends the early part of her pregnancy being
ridden, and/or driven. And the latter months just waiting
for the birth of her foal in the most optimum conditions her
owners and nature can provide.
ALL PROSPECTIVE MOTHERS NEED
THE BEST CARE POSSIBLE
Just as a human mother
to be must take optimum care of herself, adding supplements
to her diet, in order to assure a strong, healthy baby, a
mare needs special care, feed, added supplements, and exercise
to produce the desired foal.
This special care does everything to assure
a foal of good size, strong bone,
health and vigor. A foal that arrives in the world ready to
grow and prosper.
It’s pretty simple -- It’s either a good start
towards a long, healthy, active life
Or, it’s just the opposite.
Your Foal is Born
– The Best Start in Life Starts HERE
SPACE TO RUN & GROW
- Beaver Dam Farm foals are born on a farm with vast open
spaces with hills and valleys, and wide open spaces for running.
This is what gives the well-bred, developing horse the opportunity
to fulfill his genetic promise. ---- For the foal lucky enough
to be born on such a farm, his development will occur in the
most natural way. Every day he grows stronger, more supple,
and agile. Every day his bones, tendons and muscles
develop the way nature intended them to grow.
A NATURAL PASTURE vs. A PLANTED
ONE - Beaver Dam Farm’s pastures are vast natural
pastures filled with naturally occurring, healthy herbs and
grasses to help the foals grow strong and straight -- To
grow at the proper rate, meaning (not too
fast!) --- This kind of natural pasture is vastly
superior for growing young horses than is a planted, cultivated
pasture, which usually is way too rich for horses.
Pasture that’s too rich produces milk that’s too
rich, and that can mean foals that grow way too fast getting
much heavier than their skeletal system and tendons can support.
– This is a very common and serious problem
in horse breeding. Rushing growth can cause severe
developmental bone problems. But, not so at Beaver Dam Farm
where we make every effort to raise all our horses in the
most natural way possible.
BORN INTO A NATURAL HERD
– Beaver Dam Farm foals are born into a herd situation,
and learn from birth a very important lesson.
The foal learns early on that he’s NOT #1.
--- This is such an important lesson because most foals are
born with a lot of chutzpah. Their dams encourage it by allowing
the foal to get away with biting and kicking. However!
. . . The other herd members will not allow bratty behavior.
They’ll put a stop to it very quickly. -- There’s
a hierarchy that the foal must respect in the herd, and that
is . . . . - A very important lesson!
EARLY HANDLING –
(Imprinting) – At Beaver Dam Farm, the foals are handled
from birth and conditioned from Day One to respect
and enjoy people.
MANNERS & RESPECT
- At Beaver Dam Farm, the young foals receive consistent,
professional training from the moment of birth. Each
and every time the foals are handled, they get a lesson in
obedience and manners.
A PLEASANT, FRIENDLY HORSE - At Beaver
Dam Farm, we make sure the early training which leads up to
saddle and harness work is pleasant and consistent. - The
young Fjords are handled every day of their lives, and our
professional trainers assure that every experience the young
horses has is a positive, learning experience.
HE HAS NOT HAD ANY BAD EXPERIENCES
This is so important!
In everything we do, we make every effort to prevent bad experiences.
We know that every time we handle the horses, we’re
giving them a lesson, and the lesson can be positive or extremely
negative. And the negative lessons/experiences are
the ones that cause the surprises later on! We don’t
want that, and we don’t want you to have to deal with
surprises.
HE’S HANDLED AND TAUGHT
WITH LOVE, RESPECT, AND FIRMNESS. People who raise
horses and attempt to train them must have sufficient years
of experience to know how to react . . . and to know this
instinctively. -- I mean, you have to know what is acceptable
behavior and what is not. -- you have to know this instantly,
so you can react and punish instantly. Because, if you lose
the moment, you lose everything. You lose the opportunity!
And then, once the punishment has been given, and the horse
reacts (comes back to you the trainer), then the trainer can
give the horse a kind word, a rub on the ear (or whatever),
and continue what they were doing. ---- This is what
we mean by “taught with love, respect, and firmness.”
HIS TRAINING IS CONSISTENT AND
PROGRESSIVE EVERY DAY OF HIS LIFE – At Beaver
Dam Farm, the first thing a new trainer or a summer intern,
or anybody who handles our horses, learns is that –
“Everytime you handle a horse, you are giving
him a lesson -- A positive experience or a negative one!”
---
For example, we never, but never let
horses run out to the pasture by themselves, or into the barn.
-- We could do that. It would be far easier than leading
each horse in and out individually, but we know what the results
would be. -- So, we lead them in and out, one at
a time, and each and every time we’re leading a horse,
it’s a lesson for that horse. -- He learns to walk quietly
at our side neither pulling or lagging. -- He learns to walk
at the handler’s pace, either with big, powerful steps,
or shorter, slower steps. And, if the handler wants to run,
the horse learns to trot at her side, and do it with manners.
–
Just think for a minute how all this
training adds up from the very first day the foal leaves his
foaling box.
This is IMPRINTING on a grand scale!
What Makes Beaver Dam
Farm Different?
OUR TRAINING…
Whether you decide to leave your youngster
with us for two or three years, the result you’ll have
delivered to you is . . .
• A young horse with next to perfect (95%)
manners –
• A young horse that’s developed optimally both
physically and mentally.
• A young horse that’s been professionally
handled and trained with love, respect, and firmness every
day of his life.
• A young horse that’s been exposed
to life on a busy farm. That means . . .
tractors, cars, trucks, lots of people (our equine tourism
business), children, lots of dogs.
• At 2 years of age, your young horse
will lead well - stand quietly in a straight
stall -- cross-tie – clip - load -- lead - be familiar
with saddle & bridle &
harness - He’ll ground drive in harness - He’ll
longline quietly walkling &
trotting, changing direction.
• Early in his 3rd year, your horse will
be started under saddle, and soon
progress to quiet trailrides with other horses.
In both cases, whether a 2 yr. old or a 3 yr.
old, your youngster will be ready to go home to you, and to
quietly continue his training. -
Please Note: If you wish, you are very welcome
to come to our farm and spend a few days with your horse and
his trainers before he leaves Beaver Dam Farm to travel to
you.
To make sure all Beaver Dam Farm horses get
enough training, we employ sufficient numbers of people to
realize those goals. Because a well-trained, safe, and pleasant
horse just doesn’t happen! Qualified people have to
put the hours into that effort.
What it takes is
. . . . . .TRAINING, TRAINING & MORE TRAINING
-- At Beaver Dam Farm, our Fjords are not left to languish
in the field. All horses are conditioned and trained on a
continuous basis. At Beaver Dam Farm, all our training is
aimed at producing horses that are. . . . . FORWARD
-- SUPPLE -- OBEDIENT -- SOFT MOUTHED –
A PROVEN PROGRAM - Beaver Dam
Farm in Antigonish, Nova Scotia has a proven program that
can deliver to you the horse of your dreams. We’ve done
it for others, and we’ll do it for you. When you take
delivery of your horse at age two, three or four, you’ll
have a wonderfully happy and healthy animal that has received
the best of care from the time of his conception.
But, come to think of it, the reason
you’ll have such a stupendous horse goes back even further
than that. A horse that has been well-bred --- prenatally
cared for in the best possible manner meaning his dam has
received quality feed, handling, and exercise. Also that the
dam herself is trained and mannerly which means that she teaches
her foal to respect and obey people.
A mannerly and trained mother is much more important
than most people realize. It’s actually a case of “monkey
see, monkey do”. If the mother is obnoxious, the foal
will be too. If the dam is happy and willing to comply with
her handler’s wishes . . . . then the foal will follow
her lead.
What can you expect
to pay for your foal, boarding and training?
Purchase a foal or
yearling from Beaver Dam Farm Fjords (at a much reduced price),
and leave him with us in training for two or three years at
very moderate costs.
BOARD & TRAINING COSTS
Birth to 6 months - $250 U.S.
6 mo. to 1 year - $ 350
1 - 2 years $400
2 – 3 years $550
3 years + $650
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