Rhenish-German draft horse
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| Origin: | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Main breeding area: | Westphalia |
| Distribution: | isolated |
| Stick measure : | 158-170 cm |
| Colors : | Brown, fox, black, brown and fox mold |
| Main application area: | Draft and work horse |
The Rhenish-German draft horse , often incorrectly referred to as the Rhenish-Westphalian draft horse , is a strong, broad-built draft and work horse from North Rhine-Westphalia . Today it is threatened with extinction and is on the red list of endangered domestic livestock breeds in Germany .
Background information on horse evaluation and breeding can be found under: Exterior , interior and horse breeding .
Exterior
Harmonious horse with a beautiful face and expressive eyes; Strong, well-set neck, medium-weight body, sloping, muscular shoulders. Round, slightly split, well-muscled croup . Correct, dry foundation with hard hooves. Strong long hair , double mane and ears.
interior
Easily fed, good character, good temperament, willing to work with expansive corridors, workhorse for agriculture, forestry and trade.
Breeding history
When the Wickrath State Stud was founded in the mid-19th century , it received fifty warmblood stallions to breed light to medium-weight horses. The demands of agriculture for heavier horses, after the private peasant breeding had already relied heavily on the influence of the Ardennes , led to the Prussian stud management completely stopping warmblood breeding in the Rhine province in 1876 and switching to breeding of the Brabant . This led to the establishment of the Rhenish Horse Studbook in 1892 . Up until the First World War , breeding was still heavily dependent on imported Belgian stallions, which was only to change towards the end of the First World War due to the limited import options. Only at this time did the Rhenish-Belgian cold-blood breed change over to the Rhenish-German cold-blood breed. The end of the First World War heralded a boom in this cold-blooded breed, which in the 1930s led to more than 50% of this breed's share of the entire German horse population. After the Second World War, however, it quickly lost its importance due to increasing mechanization, so that today it is only found sporadically in agriculture and forestry and for representative purposes in breweries.
When the Wickrath State Stud was dissolved in 1956, the remaining breeding animals were transferred to the Warendorf State Stud, where pure maintenance breeding began from that point on. Presumably because of this transfer, the Rhenish-German draft horse is now incorrectly known as the Rhenish-Westphalian draft horse.
See also
literature
- Jasper Nissen: Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds. ISBN 3-440-06197-3
