Services:

Else and Phil offer the following services

Stallion Service:

• Stallion service: Standing Smedsmo Graen stud fee $1200 live cover. Licensed for artificial Insemination breeding contract available on request. We expect to offer frozen semen by May 2007

• Mare care: from arrival to pregnancy ultrasound confirmation $3.50/ day, mare with foal $5.50/ day, after ultrasound pregnancy confirmation $8.00/day       Please view pictures and information regarding the stallions we represent below.

Training:

• Training: Phil trains horses every day. Boarding and training fee is $650/month. Horses are boarded in outside paddocks as individuals or in groups.

Boarding:

• Boarding but no training $300/ month

Hauling:

• Hauling $1.50 / loaded mile

Assessment:

• Phil will advise clients regarding conformation, temperament and trainability of individual fjord horses. Phil will accompany individuals when they are considering a purchase.

Lessons:

• After August 2007 Phil plans to offer lessons in ground manners, driving single and pairs, and trail riding. We expect to have our new 72' x 160' indoor arena available. We have easy access to thousands of acres of county and state forest with miles of trails and logging roads that are fun to ride and drive in addition to our own property. The public property trail-heads are close enough so we do not have to trailer to them. ( 1mile ride ) We have places for people to camp on our property. I have well trained horses to use for driving or riding. Fees yet to be determined.             

Stallions Service

Offering three outstanding Norwegian Stallions with high performance scores and excellent Dispositions

The modern Norwegian Fjord horse is a product of decades of selective breeding through an official and extensive evaluation program for fjord horses in Norway. 

Our Stallion Smedsmo Gråen has been evaluated through the Norwegian system first as a three year old and then as a five year old through the six week station test. Currently the extended station test is conducted on four year old stallions. The stallions receive conformation scores as three year olds and scores in driving and movement at liberty. Now, as four year olds they again are evaluated for conformation and are tested in a number of ridden and driven disciplines by professional horse trainers. The culmination of the testing period is the annual stallion show at Nordfjordeid, Norway where the stallions either make the cut and remain stallions with a license to breed mares or they are cut and become geldings.

The evaluation process produces scores in a number of categories. There is a set of numbers pertaining to the conformation of the horse and there is a set of numbers that reflect how well the horse can perform in areas such as riding, driving, draft, movement at liberty, driving in traffic, trail riding, behavior in the stall, overall assessment, and finally a score for disposition. The horse also receives an examination by a veterinarian along with a score and written comments. There is an official written description of the horse that corresponds to the numerical scores. At the end of the stallion show and evaluation some of the stallions are places in a special category of Quality. So there can be horses placed in the quality category and ranked from number 1 on down. If the judges feel there are no horses that should be placed in the quality group, then there do not have to be horses ranked in quality. 

Smedsmo Gråen

Villa Loius Carriage Classic 2006 

Smedsmo Gråen N-96-2695 born 1996 is certainly one of the finest and most unusual stallions ever imported to the United States from Norway. Smedsmo is a slate gray color with dark points and a long forelock over a handsome head with a strikingly kind eye. This up-headed horse stands 14.2 with good legs and plenty of bone. He looks almost medieval in appearance.

Villa Louis Carriage Classic 2006

Smedsmo Gråen has earned ten solid points for disposition in the five-year-old station test at Nordfjordeid, Norway. During this test all licensed five-year-old stallions were evaluated over a five-week period by two professional horse trainers. At the end of the five-week test the horses were evaluated again by a team of five fjord evaluators over a three-day period at the annual stallion show. Smedsmo Gråen earned enough points in this evaluation to put him in the top ten % of all stallions evaluated in these tests over many years. He received 10 points for behavior in stall, 10 for trail riding, 10 for draft, and 10 for disposition. His sire Lisjegråen N-92-2877, now standing in Belgium, also had a 10-point disposition. Smedsmo Gråen was judged 9 for movement. 

During the past five years Smedsmo has done very well competing in open ADS driving shows. He has been Grand Champion Stallion at the Blue Earth show twice and reserve champion once. Smedsmo was ranked number three of the mature stallions at the 25th anniversary national fjord show at Winona 2006.  An experienced Dressage rider and trainer has said that Smedsmo rides like a $30,000 dressage horse.  Several of his progeny did well in the halter classes of the 25th anniversary show as well with two first place and two second place ribbons.

This outstanding stallion is available for breeding quality mares on a private treaty basis. Price $1200 Live foal guarantee.

It is a great pleasure to experience 10-point disposition in any horse. With a fjord you should expect it.

We expect to offer frozen semen starting April 2007.

You are most welcome to come look at our stock. Call us at 715-468-2780.

Phillip Odden and Else Bigton, Barronett, Wisconsin

Norwegian Stallions offered through frozen semen

The Norwegian Fjord Horse Association has decided to offer two of their top stallions through frozen semen. Krogs Balder and Rudsmo Råssar. The current plan is to have the semen available by early May 2007. The tentative price will be 7000 Norwegian Crowns or about $1150 at current exchange rates per unit of semen for one breeding. The semen will meet industry standards for quality and viability. 

Now you don't need to purchase your own stallion from Norway. You can purchase semen from the top modern stallions from Norway and make your own. Two stallions with 9 for type. Two stallions with 9 for disposition. Two stallions with outstanding performance scores. Two modern fjord stallions that will improve your herd.

Krogs Balder as a four year old

Krogs Balder as a three year old

Krogs Balder as a three year old received scores of 8 for type, 8 for body and muscling, 8 for legs, 8 for movement, and 8 for overall score. As a four year old his score for type was 9 and the rest were 8. The description indicates that he is a beautiful and  masculine long bodied stallion, with a very nice head. He has a nicely formed neck, is a bit round at the withers with very good muscling. He has strong and correct legs. He had good movement with nice rhythm, tempo. He earned a 9 in his performance test, a 9 for disposition, and a 10 from the veterinarian as a three year old. He stood 14 hh  as a three year old and his cannon bone measured 8 1/4 inches. He was placed 4 in the quality group as a three year old and number one in quality as a four year old.

The reports are that the offspring from this stallion are turning out very well. For those who desire a little heavier more solid fjord horse and wish to improve the legs, this stallion would be a good choice. He is brown dun in color.

Rudsmo as a four year old 

Photo by: Foto Almenning, Nordfjordeid

Rudsmo Råssar is an extraordinary fjord stallion that has been very popular in Norway. He is sired by the stallion Dalargut who is a 1st premium brown dun. Rudsmo's mother was a red dun so he has sired a number of red dun offspring. 

As a three year old he had scores of 9,8,8,8,8, with 8 for his performance test, 9 for disposition and 10 from the veterinarian. He stood just over 14 hh with a canon measurement of 8 1/4. He was placed number 1 in the quality group. The description goes as follows. Medium size stallion with high stance and very good fjord stallion presence. Good front end, flat withers. Somewhat shallow gaskin, otherwise good body quality. medium, correct legs. Splint on right front cannon. Good movement, heavy canter. Stallion with very good fjord type, good legs, and good movement. 

As a four year old he scored 9,9,8,8,9 and was placed 1st in quality again. He had the second highest use test. His canter had improved and he stood 14.1. This stallion has been used extensively as a breeding stallion in Norway. He comes from a solid line of good fjord horses and represents the best in the modern fjord horse in type. 

Contact Phillip Odden at:  nww@norskwoodworks.com
    or 
   Norwegian Fjordhorse Association at:    post@fjordhest.no

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