News
23.10.2008
Unexpected must be the word
It is quite unusual this time of year to see new born lambs in Iceland. None the less that is what happened here on the farm today.
The sheep were to be taken inside due to a bad forecast and the last of the sheep to walk home was standing alone there with a perky and healthy looking lamb.
The mother had not been lambing this spring as intended but obviously decided to make up for it anyway. First time that happens in our time at Litla-Tunga...
21.10.2008
Hlynur frá Litlu-Tungu used as photo model
We thought this was a bit funny to find.
This is the pamphlet from the insurance company "Sjóvá" with Hlynur frá Litlu-Tungu (owned by Nina Ekle, Norway) on the cover. On Worldfengur it is also possible to find a link to Sjóvá with Hlynur on it.
Photographer: Axel Jón Birgisson
16.10.2008
NOTICE! About money transfers to Iceland
There's a significant differnce in the currency on Icelandic Kroner
(ISK) whether you find it in your own country or in Iceland. To get the actual amount in your currency we refer you to the currency converter found at www.kaupthing.is.14.10.2008
What happens during two years...
Bjarkar frá Litlu-Tungu 2 IS2006186955
M: Björk frá Litlu-Tungu 2
F: Arður frá Brautarholti
22.8.08
New shipment of Basiblock
Basiblock is a quality feed supplement that contains important vitamins
and minerals. Basiblock
Super contains an extra remedy to strenghten the
intestines against internal parasites.We sell Basiblock for cattle and sheep and Basiblock Super for horses.
Basiblock is available in 20 kg buckets and - for horses only - a 60 kg tub.
Basiblock can do with all kinds of weather and doesn't contain large amounts of sirup or melasses, that would make horses eat it like a treat.
See more info on www.basiblock.com
19.8.2008
Updates
The sales list has been updated and new photos and horses has been added too.
17.7.2008
Photos of the foals
...only missing the foals of Glódís and Brá.
28.6.2008
Bursti serving mares
Bursti frá Litlu-Tungu, a 3-year-old son of Björk frá Litlu-Tungu sired by Leiknir frá Vakurstöðum, is now serving mares here at the farm.
Here are a few photos from when he went to the pasture with the mares.
26.6.2008
Foaling season
All of a sudden it is summer and nearly all the foals here have been born. It's the time of year when we enjoy driving around looking at all the new babies on the ground and consider stallions to match our mares and dreams.
By now there are just three mares left to deliver the last expected ones.
Updates and photos of the new generation will follow soon.
17.4.2008
Early...
This daughter of Askja and Álfur frá Selfossi was born last night.
15.3.2008
The foals have been taken in
Much later than expected we could get the brood mares home to the farm to stable and wean the foals born 2007. Both mares and foals were looking very good.
Usually this is done around 1st of January but the weather made it difficult for us this winter to do it any earlier than now.
11.2.2008
Elding deceased
Our oldest broodmare - Elding frá Þverá - sadly passed away this winter. She would have turned 28 this year.
Elding has over the years given many gæðingar and last summer she threw a good looking mare foal.
The photo to the right was taken the summer of 2007.
27.1.2008
Mai horse dentist is coming tomorrow
As
it's been the custom the last three years, Mai K. Nicolaisen will be
returning to do horse dentistry here in Litla-Tunga and around
Suðurland for the next 10-12 days.We will probably go to Höfn again this year and to some training stables near Selfoss. Mai is almost fully booked by now but still have room for a few more horses.
Have contact if you are interested.
16.1.2008
The homepage up running again
We've had a bit technical trouble with our homepage and it hasn't been updated for quite a while but finally everything should be okay.
Updates will follow soon.
17.8.2007
New square baler
This new Vicon square baler was delivered to us two days ago from Jötunn Vélar in Selfoss.
14.8.2007
Björk in foal
We chose to send Björk to the 4-year-old stallion Dugur frá Þúfu this year. She went there with her mare foal by Hróður frá Refsstöðum and they came home just the other day after Björk had been checked positive in the ultrasound.
Dugur is by Sveinn-Hervar frá Þúfu and out of Dröfn frá Þúfu which makes him a full brother of the mare Sveina frá Þúfu (8.14).
Dugur himself har an overall score on 8.25 - as a four-gaiter - and he is so far the 3rd highest stallion in his group this year.
27.7.2007
Two more mares in foal
The mares Framtíð and Nös came home yesterday from the stallion Örn frá Efri-Gegnishólum. They had been checked with ultrasound and both mares was diagnosed in foal.
Örn was shown this spring in Hella and recieved 7.89 for conformation and 8.45 for ridden abilitities. A total score on 8.23.
He is so far the 5th highest judged stallion in the 4-year-old class this year. Örn is by the Óður-son Aron frá Strandarhöfði (8.54) and Hrönn frá Efri-Gegnishólum (8.08).
Nös is by the Hervar-son Kriki frá Hellulandi (8.18 total). She was never shown due to an accident when she was in training.
Framtíð was shown with a total score on 7.99 - 8.21 for ridden abilities. She is by Kveikur frá Miðsitju (1st prize for offspring) and out of Venus frá Skarði (8.26 total - 8.73 for ridden abilities).
25.7.2007
Ábot in foal
Ábot came home about one week ago with a positive ultrasound from the stallion Gaumur frá Auðsholtshjáleigu. Gaumur has 8.06 for conformation and 8.84 for ridden abilities which makes a total score on 8.53.
Ábót has a total score on 7.89 and is by the 1st prize stallion Glókollur frá Þverá, Skíðadal.
20.7.2007
Glæta in foal
Glæta came home yesterday and is in foal with the 1st prize 4-gaiter stallion Spói frá Hrólfsstaðahelli.
Spói - who is 4 years old - was shown this spring with the score 8.16 for conformation and 8.05 for ridden abilities. A total score on 8.09.
Spói is out of the 1st prize mare Snilld frá Hrólfsstaðahelli (by Hrannar frá Höskuldstöðum) and by the 1st prize 4-gaited Orri-son Stæll frá Miðkoti.
Glæta is by the 1st prize stallion Glókollur frá Þverá, Skíðadal.
10.7.2007
New round pen
Our old round pen made of plastic wrapped square bales in 2004 had looked miserable for too long and the effeciency had decreased considerably with the aging of the bales.
We dicided a few weeks ago to do something about it and here is the new and quite improved replacement.
Last foal on Litla-Tunga this year
The last mare we were waiting for
to throw this year was Dúa, since Drottning was not in foal anyway. Dúa foaled saturday morning and the outcome was a blue dun colt sired by Ljúfur frá Vakurstöðum.
Dúa is by Ófeigur frá Flugumýri.
23.6.2007
Glódís has foaled
Glódís was last year served by Þristur frá Feti and yesterday she delivered the result. A black pinto colt with socks on the hind legs and coronet on both front legs.
22.6.2007
Silfra and Þruma with Dugur frá Þúfu
As with Björk we chose to use the stallion Dugur frá Þúfu on Silfra and Þruma this year too and sent them to him on Þúfa today.
Dugur - who is 4 years old - is a four-gaiter stallion with 1st prize by Sveinn-Hervar frá Þúfu and Dröfn frá Þúfu.
He has 8.39 for conformation, 8.15 for ridden abilities and a total score on 8.25.
20.6.2007
Snjall serving the mares
This year we are going to use the young stallion Snjall frá Vakurstöðum here on Litla-Tunga on three of our mares - Drottning, Glódís and Eyjalín.
Most of the other mares have been driven to stallions we find interesting and suitable.
Snjall is out of the 1st prize mare and succesful competition horse List frá Vakurstöðum (10 for tölt) and the sire is Sær frá Bakkakoti (Honorary prize).
20.6.2007
Leiknir arrives
As usual Leiknir is this year stationed here on Litla-Tunga on behalf of the owners.
This is the fourth year Leiknir is here and we have Brá and Dúa covered by him this year.
16.6.2007
Freeze marking
Before we let out the one-year-olds in their summer pasture, we freeze mark them on their back (where the saddle one day will be) to always be able to identify each individual.
First figure is the last number of the year of birth, then comes our own marking "L" and "T" (Litla-Tunga) put together as one and last figure is the number that this excact horse has.
13.6.2007
Our new puppy
Smella is the name of our newest family member. She came here in the middle of May and is a great grand daughter of our good old dog Rósa.
It is striking how alike they look.
09.6.2007
Björk foaled this last night
This wonderful mare foal Björk threw last night. It is black and with a coronet on the left hind leg.
The sire is Hróður frá Refsstöðum.
Björk is by Spuni frá Miðsitju.
08.6.2007
Elding had a foal
Elding threw a yellow dun mare foal today by Ljúfur frá Vakurstöðum and they are both good looking.
This winter we did not expect that Elding would be in foal, since she had big troubles with her teeth two years ago. She got skinny and wasn't in foal last year.
We thought that this was it for Elding but had proper equine dentistry done on her and she recovered very fast after that.
Today she is looking remarkably good for a 27 year-old mare who has been with a foal almost every year since young age.
05.6.2007
Foal photos
The first day in the big world for the foals of Gletta, Kliðja and Nös. All three are fillies.
Gletta's daughter by Ljúfur frá Vakurstöðum
Kliðja's daughter by Ketill frá Vakurstöðum
Nös' daughter by Ljúfur frá Vakurstöðum
01.6.2007
Issa's foal
Issa foaled yesterday morning a
good looking blue dun colt sired by Breki frá Litlu-Tungu.The sire Breki is 4 years old and out of Brá and by Keilir frá Miðsitju.
26.5.2007
Three foals today
This morning Kliðja, Nös and Gletta had thrown their foals.
We don't know the gender on any of them yet since we try to give the mares a break and let the foals have their first milk before approaching them.
23.5.2007
More of foals
With excitement we have been waiting for the foal of Framtíð. She didn't fail and brought us a chestnut filly with blaze and a sock by Hróður frá Refsstöðum yesterday morning.
Brá surprised us today and had thrown a filly - which we think is yellow dun - by Ljufur frá Vakurstöðum.
21.5.2007
The first foal has come
Eyjalín was the mare to throw the first foal of the year yesterday
morning. It is a colt and he is blue dun with a star.His sire is Ljufur frá Vakurstöðum (turning 4 this year) who is by Óður frá Brún and Lyfting frá Ysta-Mó.
Ljufur is a full brother of the famous mare List frá Vakurstöðum (with 10 for tölt) and he has same dam as the 1st prize stallion Leiknir frá Vakurstöðum.
Eyjalín is by Seifur frá Sauðárkróki.
17.5.2007
Viður and Þórir Reykjavík Masters
Last weekend the competition Reykjavík Masters were held and Þórir Hannesson and his horse Viður frá Litlu-Tungu won the tölt class for young adults.
(Viður is out of Issa frá Litlu-Tungu and Keilir frá Miðsitju).
Tölt young adults
1 Þórir Hannesson / Viður frá Litlu-Tungu 2 - 7,22
2 Rósa Birna Þorvaldsdóttir / Bylur frá Kleifum - 6,89
3 Valdimar Bergstað / Vatnar frá Vatnsholti - 6,72 - Reykjavíkurmeistari
4 Halldóra Sif Guðlaugsdóttir / Villirós frá Hvítanesi - 6,56
5 Linda Rún Pétursdóttir / Stjarni frá Blönduósi - 6,22
2.5.2007
Klassík wins her first competition
We were happy to hear yesterday
that Klassík - a 1st prize mare we sold one week ago - and her new owner, 14
year-old Inga Birna Ársælsdóttir, won their first
competition together in the riding society Sóti.Klassík is turning 6 this year and it is the first time she is competing.
15.4.2007
Horses for sale
The page with saleshorses have been updated and a lot of horses have been added. More horses as well as photos and info about each horse will follow as soon as possible.
11.3.2007
After the visit of the dentist...
It was a big success this year also and Mai was busy all the time here. She did teeth on 95 horses during the two weeks here. Among the places she was working were Hornafjörður - where she also gave a lecture on equine dentistry - Akurgerði, Hafnarfjöður, Langholti and of course here in Litla-Tunga.
We would like to thank Mai K. Nicholaisen for coming to Iceland again and for the enormous interest people have shown her work.
Many well known horses had dentistry this time, for example:
- Þula frá Hólum
- Tigull frá Gygjarhóli
- Freyðir frá Hafsteinsstöðum
- Órator frá Grafarkoti
- Þjótandi frá Svignaskarði
- Orka frá Sauðárkróki
...and many others.
21.1.2007
The dentist is back
The beginning of the year is usually the time when people start to think about taking in their horses and start riding them again and here in Litla-Tunga we are no exception.
The last two years we have had the danish equine dental technician Mai K. Nicolaisen (IAED), who is a good friend of Kathrine, coming here to do dentistry on the horses who are in training and the broodmares.
Other trainers from aruond the area came with horses to Mai too and some of them in
2006 were:- Álfur frá Selfossi
- Hátíð frá Ulfstöðum
- Röðull frá Kálfholti
- Þristur frá Feti
- Þorsti frá Garði
- Eldjárn
frá Tjaldholum
Mai is not fully booked yet so if you have interest in having your horse's teeth done by her, you are welcome to contact her on mail or phone +45 20323280 for questions or contact us to order time.
17.1.2007
Winter is over us
The last days and almost weeks bad weather has been over us. We were planning to stable the foals aruond the new year but the frost and snow have not made it possible.
The training has been standing still for a while so we decided to rearrange stuff in the big barn and have now made space for indoor activities with the horses when the weather is worst.
Several young horses are still left to be taken in to start training again after the winter break.
They forecast predict changes and better weather the next days which we strongly hope will hold, so we can finish what has been delayed too long by the wind, frost and snow.
2.12.2006
Sheep
Now is the season for shaving the sheep. They were taken in a few
weeks ago
and yesterday
was the day they all went out of their wolly wintercoat. Here in Litla-Tunga we like to see a wide range of colors in our sheep and the photo is of the "mórauð" colored sheep.
20.11.2006
New homepage!
Totally new look on our homepage which we hope you will enjoy. Some features are not finished yet but please be patient for updates soon.
12.11.2006
Our
young horses now being tamed
Finally the
weather allowed us to take home the
young horses from their summer pasture so they can be started under saddle.Three geldings and two mares are by the stallion Leiknir frá Vakurstöðum and out of our own mares. One mare is by Orri frá Þufu and a mare owned by Kathrine is by Óttar frá Hvítárholti.
The next days will be interesting to follow what they have developed into.
27.8.2006
Glæta's
first foal
This is her first foal and the sire is Leiknir frá Vakurstöðum.
Glæta is by Glókollur frá Þverá.
25.8.2006
Updated list of foals 2006
It's
been a busy summer and time flies...Here's an update on what foals our
mares so far have given us this year.- Brá had a black colt by Keilir frá Miðsitju (by Ófeigur frá Flugumýri). The mare Brá is by Sörli frá Sauðárkróki.
- Gletta threw a black mare filly by Keilir too. This filly is a full sister of Beta frá Litlu-Tungu, evaluated 1st prize mare. Gletta is by Galsi frá Sauðárkróki.
- Björk had a black colt by Arður frá Brautarholti (by Orri). Björk is by Spuni frá Miðsitju.
- Eyjalín gave us a bay filly by Leiknir frá Vakurstöðum (by Safír frá Viðvík). Eyjalín is by Seifur frá Sauðárkróki.
- Ussa threw a chestnut filly by Leiknir.
- Drottning had a chestnut colt by Leiknir frá Leiknir. She is by Sikill frá Stóra-Hofi.
- Framtíð threw a chestnut colt with a star by Leiknir. She is by Kveikur frá Miðsitju.
- Nös has a chestnut filly with blaze by Asi frá Kálfholti (by Feykir frá Hafsteinsstöðum). She is by Kriki frá Hellulandi.
- Glódís had a bay colt by Leiknir. Glódís is by Hjörtur frá Tjörn.
19.8.2006
Þruma evaluated
This
week the late summer evaluations were on in Hella and our mare Þruma
was evaluated.IS2001286957 Þruma frá Litlu-Tungu 2
Color: 1540 Rauður/milli- tvístjörnótt
Breeder: Vilhjálmur Þórarinsson
Owner: Vilhjálmur Þórarinsson
S: IS1997158700 Meiður frá Miðsitju
Ss: IS1985176001 Toppur frá Eyjólfsstöðum
Sd: IS1977257141 Krafla frá Sauðárkróki
D: IS1980265800 Elding frá Þverá, Skíðadal
Ds: IS1974135570 Hlynur frá Báreksstöðum
Dd: IS1973257410 Snælda frá Reynistað
Measures: 142 - 137 - 64 - 145 - 28,0 - 17,5
Hoof measures: Vfr: 8,1 - Va: 7,5
Conformation: 8,0 - 8,5 - 9,0 - 8,5 - 7,5 - 7,5 - 8,0 - 7,5 = 8,16
Ridden abilities: 7,5 - 8,0 - 7,5 - 9,0 - 8,0 - 8,0 - 8,0 = 7,88
Overal score: 7,99
Slow tölt: 7,0 Canter: 8,0
Rider: Guðmundur Björgvinsson