Pindos-Pony

The Pindos Pony ( Greek: αλογάκι της Πίνδου ) is a pony breed from the Pindus Mountains in Epirus Thessaly in Greece.

Features

The Pindos Pony is a tough, hard and perennial pony. It is about 1.30 m tall and you can find all the basic colors, which occur predominantly brown, dark brown or gray. The slightly ramsnasige head is rather coarse, not small and has a straight or slightly concave profile. The neck is recognized as quite deep and described as moderate and placed. Pindos Pony have a well-marked withers, which is short and high. They have a narrow but long back, a weak hindquarters and a falling up short and chipped croup. It often happens that the pony seems a rib missing. The limbs are slender and long, sometimes kuhessig. The hooves are very hard, relatively narrow, have a barely trained jet and have high heels.

The character of this breed is described as willing to work, good natured, extremely hard and frugal. It is sure-footed, but sometimes stubborn. The typical gaits and gait pass.

Origin and use

The Pindos Pony is probably of Oriental origin, which may be due from the Turkish rule 1453-1830, as this breed oriental blood was supplied. However, the exact origin seems unknown.

Pony of this breed were used by the mountain farmers of the Pindos as working, supporting and riding ponies, as well as for light agricultural work. The use fell sharply among other things, due to the engine. The ponies lived and live semi- wild, which means that farmers they einfingen for a specific use and then let free again. Today Pindos Pony be used in far small extent as pack animals, or in tourism for trail rides. Mares are used for mule breeding.

Today, about 300 to 1000 individuals of this breed live in Pindos. Although the Pindos ponies are tough and survive longer periods of lean foods, but there were at severe winter to mass extinction.