Chinese Guoxia

The Chinese Guoxia (Chinese果 下马/果 下马, Pinyin guǒxià mǎ ) is a breed -chinese mini ponies, which are about three feet tall.

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

Exterior

The Height of the ponies is 96-104 centimeters. It shall be square with horses mid-size head, well developed neck and torso. The coat is shaggy and long -haired.

Interior

The ponies are used as pack animals and to about 100 kg a day at one meter size in hilly country contribute about 30-40 km. In a loop, they can pull a 400-500 kg charge. You will also be ridden and have good programs.

It is frugal ponies, which are usually semi- wild kept and bred in her home on barren 500-900 m high pastures, which are referred to by the Chinese as stone islands. They are durable.

They differ genetically highly dependent on other native breeds.

Breeding history

These Chinese miniature horses were discovered in southwest China in the 1980s with a count of the existing breeds to determine the animal genetic resources of China. It was then searched and found that they were ( 25-220 AD), probably means in the writings of the Han Dynasty as Gouxi Ma, which means sub- Fruit Tree Horses in ancient books these horses. They should have been about 57.5 to 69 cm tall and had brown. 1986-1990 made ​​the miniature horses at most one percent of the horse population of the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi, and there were fewer than ten animals of the breed. In 1987, the Guizhou mini horse association was founded to preserve the breed, and in this first year 39 horses of the breed were registered. The mini ponies were not clearly separated in the pastures of the larger local ponies and have therefore mixed with these. At best, low-lying meadows predominate larger pony breeds on barren landscapes and hochgelegenem outweigh mini ponies.

Swell

  • You- Chun Chen, Wang Tiequan: Mini -horses in China. In: Animal Genetic Resources Information. 18, 1996, pp. 23-27, doi: 10.1017/S1014233900000675.
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