Kustanair

The modern Kustanai a monstrous horse of the western Kazakhstan, which combines the benefits of a riding horse with the robustness of a steppe horse together. It is named after the Kustanai stud, that is, in turn, according to the city Kustanai.

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

Exterior

The Kustanai has a straight, average-sized head with wide jowls and medium length to short apex. He has a medium length, straight and low-set neck and a wide, well muscled, normal high withers. The back is straight, short and strong. The loins are flat and well muscled. The croup is of medium length and well rounded, the shoulders long and high. The chest is broad and deep. The Kustanai has correct legs with well developed joints, hard hooves and strong tendons and ligaments. There are Brown, Dark Brown, foxes and dun before.

Stallions were 1980 163 cm, 160 cm mares. Stallions had a chest circumference of 188 cm, 189 cm of mares, cannon bone girth 20.3 cm 19.9 cm of stallions and mares. The largest animals living in Kustanai stud. Decorated in herding horses were much smaller, so the mares in the stud Saryturgai had a shoulder height of 152 cm, a chest circumference of 185 cm and a cannon bone circumference of 19.2 cm.

Interior

The Kustanai is remarkably efficient under continental conditions required under local conditions but regular feeding.

Breeding history

The Kustanai was developed in the steppes of western Kazakhstan in collective and state farms. The core of the breed is on the stud Kustanai and Maikulski. 1887, the development of the breed was begun on the State Stud Turgai, 1888 has also been included on Kustanai and 1890 on the Orenburg breeding. 1890, the breed was officially recognized. The breed was developed by the horse race with the Kazakh Don horse, Strelets, Astrakhan ( improved Kalmyk ) and half-blooded Thoroughbred stallions were crossed. The crossing attempts were initially unsuccessful.

Only when the selected broodmares and foals were fed ( by creep -feeding ) in the 20s on a regular basis Kustanai high-quality diet, the finishing crosses with English Thoroughbreds were successful. In the stables Kustanai and Troitski the horses were kept in stalls and in pastures and allowed to graze in winter only in good weather. They were abundantly fed with hay and feed concentrates and the mares fed the stallions by hand. The foals were weaned at 6-8 months.

In the thirties and other Maikulski a second breeding system was supplemented in the stables, where the mares and stallions were kept together in large herds, were allowed to graze throughout the year and were looking in bad weather in dandruff protection. Again, hay and concentrates were fed.

The breed was designed to simultaneously develop two types of the breed. The riding horse type included horses with a high proportion of whole blood, while the steppe type contained a higher proportion of blood of different origin breeds. Horses of the riding horse types were tested on the race track.

The Kustanai can be found in the area Kustanai in the south of Chelyabinsk and southern Kazakhstan. 1930 was one of the breeding herd in 1000 Kustanai stud mares. Occurred in 1981 in Kustanai and Krasnodon together 726 pure-bred breeding mares. 746 stallions have been used in breeding. In 1980 there were a total of 40,200 Kustanai horses.

The race consists of three variants, five sire lines and mare six families. The most important stud farms are the two Kustanai regional experiment stations, which were a stud earlier in Krasnodon and Saryturgai.