Dartmoor-Pony

The Dartmoor Pony is an Headquartered in southwest England diminutive pony breed.

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

Interior

The Dartmoor Pony is friendly, hard, sturdy and enduring.

Breeding history

The Dartmoor ponies come from a raised bog in south-west England ( Dartmoor ), near the town of Plymouth. Before Stutbuchgründung in 1899 numerous horses with other breeds were bred. The wild mares were crossed with Shetland ponies, Welsh ponies Fell ponies, Hackney, Arabs and some other breeds. It has been used as a pack animal on the farms and to transport ore from the mines, it attracted the trucks in the mines and served the farmers as a mount. The English royal children to learn to ride on these ponies.

Dartmoor ponies are now considered endangered domestic animal breeds. Worldwide, one starts from a stock of about 3,000 animals. In Germany there are 36 stallions and 140 mares of this breed.

Use

It is suitable as a beginning riding pony for children and due to its good jumping ability as a small hunting and show jumping pony. Also known as horse riding for adults and children, it is well suited.

A meaningful use is this Urpony but also in the maintenance of valuable for nature conservation areas (recovery of Extensivheu, keeping open the traditional cultural landscape, use in large-scale grazing projects, habitat management with the goal of species and habitat protection ).

Dartmoor ponies can also be used near groundwater and steep surfaces because of their low weight. They are suitable for grazing almost all habitats, including wetlands, heaths and poor grass. In terms of the climate, the according to their origin in the mountains - air feel more comfortable than in dry warm lowlands. They are good and very Raufutterverwerter feed frugal. They bear no food fertilized pastures and need for rearing and low power no power feed. In adapting to their environment, they have developed a long grazing times higher Grasungsintensität and reduced locomotor activity. They have a good tolerance to cold and damp weather. You can move skillfully in mountainous terrain in general. The pronounced chewing surfaces of the back teeth and the digestive organs are adapted to particular hartstängeliges, bulky and not very rich in content, some frozen food. By beißzangenartige position of the incisors of browsing is gentle, the plants are pinched off more than plucked. Select their food hardly, as they have a broad absorption spectrum for plant species or for different age stages of vegetation. You 're not looking so consistently special non feeding areas for defecation because they are not always inclined to interrupt the food for this activity. The excrement-places are therefore not as highly concentrated but more distributed over the entire surface. Further, the distance that is held to the rank patches while grazing low. These three factors determine a uniform eroding the pasture, and where adequate offer they eat regularly and sedges, rushes and grasses hartblättrige. Even older nursery and permanent lining is well accepted by them and utilized.

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