Skömm frá Hellulandi is new on our salespage. She is a daughter of Hróður frá Refsstöðum and the first class mare Rós frá Hellulandi. Probably a competition/breedinghorse for the future.

We were quite busy the last days putting up the side with saleshorses. We were talking to our friends, asking for horses to be put on it, taking pictures and finally setting everything together. At the moment are 12 horses on the salesside, rangeing from foals to fully trained horses.
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As the level of river Laxá is getting higher and higher it was time to move most of our horses from Holmavað to other places. Vordís, Bragur, Kátína, Pjakkur, Ösp, Mímir and Jodís went to Bakki, where they will hopefully stay till New Year. In Bakka is a big herd of horses at the moment and there is enough to eat for all of them. It was less trouble than expected to catch all the youngsters and they were all going without problems into the trailer.

Hugsun, Huginn and Alrún went to our fence next to the road, where we'll soon start to feed them hay. Alrún just followed Hugsun into the trailer, but unfortunately Huginn didn't follow his mum at all. In the end Ingo and Bensi had to catch him and put him into the trailer. It was quite funny to watch them trying to catch him. Unfortunately was my camera in the car when they did it...

Perla, Katla, Amor and Vaka are staying in Holmavað and get good hay from Bensi. Think they'll come well over the winter...

Ögn is still on our summerpasture and should take care of the rest of grass there together with Gisli's mare. When they are finished they'll be moved to Bakki too.

Of course it's not enough to just visit 1 Horse Roundup a year and so we went to  Melgerðismelarétt in Eyjafjörður. Not as many horses in as many colours as in Skrapatungurétt but a lot of nice built, good looking horses at different age.
There was one or another "eyecatcher" in the herd and a really special foal, which was already shown in Eidfaxi earlier this year. It is a 3 coloured Stallionfoal, red-black spottet with a star and a snip. Have a look at him and the other horses there in "Pictures" - "Horses" - "Melgerðismelarétt"

Recently we visited our horses in the field and were amazed how fast our ridinghorses gained weight there... Vordís and Bragur had a quite big grasbelly when we arrived (not to talk about the young horses...) and seemed to enjoy their holiday.
Pictures in "Our horses september"

We used the good weather on sunday to go and have a look at Skrapatungurétt close to Blönduos. Around 600 horses were gathered together in the mountains, where they were allowed to roam free during the summer months, and driven down to Skrapatungurétt where they were sorted out and driven back to their homefarms by their owners.
I really liked how the farmers were treating the horses while sorting them. Everybody tried to work together and do it as calm as possible. No unnecessary show!
Of course I had my camera with me! You find the pics in "Horses" - "Skrapatungurétt 2008".
Our friend Mieke was with us, she took a lot of pics too and put them in her own Webalbum. Just click here if you want to have a look!