1dr Acres Farm

Ingunn is a medium-build, 15 hand mare with 21 cm cannons (8.3 inches). Her dam, Gracelyn, is 15 hands with 20.5 cm cannons (8.1″), and her sire, Elko, is also 15 hands tall, with 9.75″ cannons (24.8 cm).

Ingunn’s pedigree is here.

Ingunn is on the right here, in 2024. She’s a very social and loving mare who is calm and was so easy to train.

Her structure and movement are nice, and she’s a naturally wonderful mother. Exactly the combination of traits we want in our broodmares.

As a testament to her temperament, there is this event and post from April, 2022:

Reason 1025 of why I LOVE Fjords!

Ingunn is a coming 2 year old here (1 year, 9 months old). She apparently decided to climb into the hay ring, but stepped between the rungs instead of over the top one. She got stuck. She didn’t freak out and kill herself, didn’t break her leg, didn’t spook the other 22 horses out there by dragging the feeder all over the place. She, in good-minded Fjord fashion, worked to get out without hurting herself, and when she couldn’t, she waited for the humans to come free her. She was not spooky or reactive as we figured out how to extract her leg without cutting the feeder. She did not bolt off once we did free her. She simply walked quietly off.

This is exactly the temperament we want in our Fjords. Even for such a young horse, she kept herself composed, and was calm and trusting. We can’t easily train that in, and we didn’t train that into her. She received basic baby halter training from me last year, just like what I provide for all of our weanlings, and she hadn’t received any further training. Her choice of response to being trapped reflects who she is; her base temperament and personality. This is a heritable trait.

This filly is an Elko daughter, from our 15 hand mare, Gracelyn. At 1 year 9 months old, Ingunn measured 141 cm tall (nearly 14 hands). Her full sister, Erica, was 153 cm (just over 15 hands) at 3 years 10 months old. We bought these round bale feeders thinking they were tall enough. Based on this and all the other still-growing relatives of these girls in our broodmare herd, I think we need a version of these feeders with one higher rung to keep them from trying to climb inside!

We retained these 3 consecutively-born full sisters (from Gracelyn x Elko) for our broodmare herd. L to R here is Erica (2018), Hubby, Ingunn (2020) and Eileen (2019). All 3 have produced offspring now and we are SO happy we kept all 3 sisters; we simply LOVE their foals!