Chinese guoxia
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| Origin: | China, Debao, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Ningqiang |
| Main breeding area: | China, Debao, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Ningqiang |
| Distribution: | China, Debao, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Ningqiang |
| Stick measure : | 96-104 cm |
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The Chinese Guoxia ( Chinese 果 下馬 / 果 下马 , Pinyin guǒxià mǎ ) is a breed of south Chinese mini ponies that grow to be about one meter tall.
Background information on horse evaluation and breeding can be found under: Exterior , interior and horse breeding .
Exterior
The height of the ponies is 96 to 104 centimeters. They are square horses with medium-sized heads, well-developed necks and rumps. The fur is shaggy and long-haired.
interior
The ponies are used as pack animals and with a height of one meter in mountainous country they can carry about 100 kg a day for about 30-40 km. They can pull a load weighing 400–500 kg on a loop. They are also ridden and have good gaits.
They are frugal ponies that are mostly kept and bred semi-wild in their homeland on barren pastures at 500–900 m altitude, which the Chinese call stone islands . They are long lasting.
Genetically, they differ greatly from other native breeds.
Breeding history
These Chinese miniature horses were discovered in southwest China in the 1980s during a livestock census to determine China's animal genetic resources. After that, ancient scriptures searched for these horses and found that they were probably referred to as Gouxi Ma , which means under-fruit-tree horses , in scriptures from the Han dynasty (25–220 AD) . They are said to have been 57.5 to 69 cm tall at the time and were brown. From 1986 to 1990, miniature horses made up no more than one percent of the horse population in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi, and there were fewer than ten animals of the breed. In 1987, the Guizhou minihorse association was formed to preserve the breed and that first year 39 horses of the breed were registered. The mini ponies were not clearly separated from the larger local ponies in the pastures and have therefore mixed with them. Larger pony breeds predominate on better, lower-lying pastures, while mini-ponies predominate on barren and high-lying landscapes.
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- You-Chun Chen, Tiequan Wang: Mini-horses in China . In: Animal Genetic Resources Information . tape 18 , 1996, p. 23-27 , doi : 10.1017 / S1014233900000675 .