Aegidienberger

Standing in the Icelandic type Aegidienberger

The Aegidienberger is a 1981 founded by Walter Feldmann Senior and Junior Walter Feldmann new horse breed that is the result of a cross between Icelanders and Paso Peruano.

Background information on the evaluation and breeding horses can be found at: exterior, interior and horse breeding.

Exterior

The Aegidienberger similar in appearance to the more Icelanders as the Peruvian Paso, according to the higher genetic proportion of Icelandic. His physique is harmonious, the neck in a natural erection well set. His head is strong. Mane and tail fall lush. He has a viable back, a strong, often steep shoulder, a slightly sloping croup and a little lightly feathered.

Interior

The Aegidienberger is intermediate in type between horse and pony and can therefore be described as a small horse. From the Icelanders he inherited high endurance and resistance as well as a lively gait, from Paso Peruano the larger Height. Both origin breeds were able to bring their slip resistance and the predisposition to natural gait and pass. Due to its great balance, it is well suited as a leisure and family horse.

Breeding history

In 1981 the Peruvian Horse Championships by Messrs. Walter Feldmann (senior and jun. ) Was adopted the plan during a visit to breed by crossing the two Gaited Horses Peruvian Paso horse and Iceland, a new breed of horse. The respective advantages of both races should be united in one issued in Aegidienberg breed breeding program.

Breeding goal was a gaited horse with great similarity to the Icelanders that preserves the speed of the Icelander, doing a gait and foundation improvement, a higher shoulder height and a greater temperature tolerance and racial realities of the Peruvian Paso has such excellent Naturtöltfähigkeit and larger Height without the robustness and sensible and easy of Icelandic lose.

Breeding methodology

By pairing a pure Paso Peruano stallion with a pure Icelandic mare the F1 generation was created. This F1 generation was then backcrossed in a mating with a pure Iceland horse. The result was the R1 generation. In the following section, this breed was bred to the F1 generation. As a result, the final product, a 5/8-Kreuzung from Iceland horses and Pasos was on the 5/8 Icelandic and 3/8 Peruvian blood has.

Success came in the recognition as a separate breed of horse ( a very rare event ) named Aegidienberger which is entered in the Rhineland Stud Book and various breed associations and has also been recognized by the Ministry of Environment, Planning and Agriculture as a distinct breed.

Breed standards

The intersection of both races results, as described in the breeding goal, through the influence of the Pasos is a collaborative medium sized sturdy horse with grace and ease, the Naturtölt and a fairly strong foundation has. As a new crossing breeds that are genetically Ägidenberger not yet completely consolidated. They occasionally have descendants with poorer properties than corresponds to the Rassedenstandard. These horses are not bred, but they are treated as riding horses.

In 2004, there were attempts to open the breeding line for Aegidienberger also for other breeds in order to introduce into the breeding line. However, for the desired 5/8 Zuchtmix from Icelanders and Paso Peruano would become sluggish, met with resistance.