FEIF - in co-operation with the Agricultural University of Hvanneyri, Iceland - offers you an interesting and extensive seminar about the breeding of Icelandic horses. The seminar will take from March 13 - 15, 2009. The seminar is open for breeding leaders, persons...
FEIF is supporting the 1st International German Icelandic Horse Breeding Championship with Gæðingakeppni A/B Flokkur, T1 and SpeedPass which will take place from May 28th - June 1st, 2008 on the Icelandic Horse Farm Osterbyholz, Germany. Further information can be...
First information on FEIF breeding shows 2008 has been added to the FEIF Website. The list will be completed and updated regularly.
A FEIF international breeding judge seminar will be held at Holar University College in Iceland, March 26-30, 2008. This is a seminar for experienced judges that are approved by the Icelandic horse association of their country. The participants have to pass a test at...
WorldFengur Registrar Seminar is to be held at London Heathrow airport from 9th - 11th November. All countries are entitled to send one participant and nominate a second person that would like to attend, subject to space. Travel and hotel costs are sponsored by FEIF....
The first FEIF Breeding Show in Great Britain will take place from June 9th- 10th, 2007 at Hedge End Farm, Dorset.
12 Countries will participate in the International Breeding Show at the World Championships 2007. The list includes Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.
The International Breeding Show in Deurne (NL), March 31 and April 1, 2007, has been cancelled due to a lack of sufficient participants.
Inge Kringeland (NO) stepped down as member of the Breeding Registration Group (and by consequence, of the Breeding Committee). Mike Edwards (GB) has been elected in his place. Two new members have been elected in the Breeding Judges Committee: Hallgrímur S. Sveinsson...
The Delegates' Assembly (the highest body within FEIF) elected Marlise Grimm (DE) as the new Director of Breeding. The previous Director of Breeding, Per Anderz Finn (SE) had to decide to step down. Read more about Marlise at the renewed FEIF website: www.feif.org.
Per Anderz Finn (SE) had to decide to step down as Director of Breeding of FEIF. The Board of FEIF proposes to the Delegates' Assembly (the highest body within FEIF) to elect Marlise Grimm (DE) as the new Director of Breeding, at the meeting scheduled February 16,...
A new edition of FIZO (Breeding rules; 6/2006) is available now form the service section of the FEIF website, both in English and German. This version contains changes decided upon by the Delegates' Assembly 2006.
The FEIF Breeding Award 2006 has been awarded at Landsmót to the stallion Stáli frá Kjarri - IS1998187002, with an overall score of 8,76 (riding abilities: 9,09; conformation: 8,26). Stáli is sired by Galsi frá Sauðárkróki, mother Jónína frá Hala. Breeder is Helgi...
The Board of FEIF has published additional information about the procedures to register DNA Analysis and Bone Spavin in WorldFengur. More information can be found at the FEIF website: www.feif.org/news.
New rules have been published regarding bone spavin. Bone spavin is a disease is commonly found in Icelandic horses. The development of the disease starts in many cases at young age and the initiation of the disease has been found to be unrelated to the use of the...
During the FEIF Conference 2006, Bjarni Þorkelsson (IS) delivered a remarkable speech about the future of Breeding. In his speech he touches many subjects, among them the relation between breeding goals and demands made on competition horses in sport. Bjarni finds...
The new Best Lineair Unbiased Prediction (BLUP) was introduced recently by Guðlaugur Antonsson, the Icelandic Horse Breeding Advisor. Horses from eleven countries were included in the breeding evaluation: Austria, Germany, Great-Britain, Denmark, Finland, Iceland,...
The new edition of FIZO (5/2005) is available for download from the FEIF website (www.feif.org/service). FIZO is the collection of official definitions, rules and approved information, serving the breeding of Icelandic horses all over the world. This version is...