Canadian Horse

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Canadian Horse
Canadian Horse

Canadian Horse

Important data
Origin: Canada, 18th century
Main breeding area: Canada
Distribution: outside Canada low
Stick measure : 142 to 162 cm
Colors : mostly black horses, but also brown horses and foxes
Main application area: Competition, work and family horse

The Canadian Horse or Cheval Canadien is a Canadian breed of horse .

Exterior

The Canadian Horse is a small, well-proportioned horse. It is also characterized by a strong neck, a muscular forehand, a compact torso and a powerful hindquarters. It has long and thick long hair.

interior

The breed is considered tough, willing, easy to feed, fertile and long-lived.

Breeding history

The first horses were exported to Canada in 1647. The French King Louis XIV had numerous horses shipped to New France between 1665 and 1670 in order to set up a horse breeding facility there.

For more than 150 years the horses were bred in Canada without any significant influences. By the mid-19th century, there were approximately 150,000 Canadian Horses common throughout Canada and the United States. Some of its traits were used through breeding in other North American horse breeds such as the Morgan , the Tennessee Walking Horse , the Standardbred, and the American Saddlebred .

At the end of the 19th century the horses were increasingly exported, e.g. B. in the course of the war of secession en masse to the US Army or as workhorses for Caribbean sugar plantations . The number of animals then decreased massively and by the end of the 1870s there were only fewer than 400 specimens. Several Canadian breeders then came together to save the breed. Under the direction of Dr. JA Couture, the breed was successfully bred again. The breed was registered in 1886. However, it was not until the Canadian Horse Breeders Association was founded in 1895 that breeding of the breed received new impetus. In 1907, under Dr. JG Rutherford a new breed registration with improved standards.

In 1913 the Canadian Department of Agriculture started a new breeding program in Cap-Rouge , Québec . The stallion Albert De Cap Rouge was born in Cap-Rouge . The breeding program later moved to St. Joachim, where it was discontinued in 1940 during the Second World War. After the war, breeding was continued in Deschambault-Grondines until 1979. When the program was discontinued, the number of animals fell again. Due to private breeding initiatives, the number of animals increased again to around 6,000 by 2012.

In 2002, the breed was declared the National Horse of Canada by the Canadian Parliament.

The breed remains on the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy's list for endangered breeds.

Web links

Commons : Canadian Horse  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Canadian Horse at hhc.de, accessed on November 4, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Canadian Horse at pferde-pferderassen.de, accessed on November 4, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n About Canadian Horses at canadianhorses.com, accessed November 4, 2012
  4. ↑ Canadian Horse at albc-usa.org, accessed November 4, 2012