Horse-breeding: being the general principles of heredity applied to the business of breeding horses, with instructions for the management of stallions, brood mares and young foals, by Sanders James Harvey 1832-1899

Author:Sanders, James Harvey, 1832-1899
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses
Publisher: Chicago, J.H. Sanders & co.
Published: 1885-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

description in a work of this nature, take their name from the Shetland Islands, where they originated, doubtless through the effect of the bleak climate and scanty subsistence to which the original specimens of the race have been for ages subjected upon these islands. They are also bred in considerable numbers in the north of Scotland. There are other comparatively diminutive races, as the Welsh or Exmoor ponies, the Norwegian ponies, and others of Europe and Asia, but a description of each and all of them would be more interesting to the student of natural history than to the practical American breeder.

The Mustangs, or wild horses, that were found upon the plains of Texas and New Mexico, and elsewhere on our own continent, are a tough, hardy and usually ill-tempered race of small horses, remarkably agile and sure-footed, and have descended from the original Spanish stock brought to Mexico by the Spaniards in their early efforts at the conquest of that country. The Indian ponies, so common in our western Territories, have undoubtedly the same origin, and many of them, especially those that have been bred in the higher latitudes, approximate very closely the form and size of the Shetland pony. The hardiness and powers of endurance of many of these horses are simply marvelous; but these valuable qualities are largely neutralized by ill-temper and lack of size. Thoroughbred sires, as well as stallions of the various draft breeds, have been used upon these mustang mares with excellent results in most cases. When tamed and broken they are especially adapted for use in herding cattle upon the great ranches of our western plains, and for this purpose the genuine mustang is the chief reliance of the herdsman. They are bred, herded and branded in about the same manner as that practiced by our western ranchmen with their immense herds of cattle.

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