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Department of Animal and Food SciencesOSU Extension

Breeds of Livestock

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CATTLE GOATS HORSES POULTRY SHEEP SWINE OTHER

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Horses

From cave paintings it is believed that the equid from which modern horses are derived resemble the modern Przewalski Horse. The large strong heads and erect manes depicted in these paintings bear a striking resemblance to this modern breed.

The first domestication of the horses was probably in the steppes of central Asia between 3000 and 4000 B.C. These first animals were kept for meat and milk. As early man became more mobile undoubtedly horses began to be used as pack animals.

Oxen were being used in the Middle East at approximately 4000 B.C. for plowing. Progressively they were used on sleds, which were eventually mounted on rollers, with the final evolution of wheels. Early in the 3rd millennium B.C. there is archaeological evidence that vehicles drawn by equid, generally onagers or ass hybrids, were being used in warfare. As horses from the north became more numerous the carts moved to the familiar two-wheeled chariot with spoked wheels. Due to his greater speed the horse rapidly replaced other equid as harness animals.

Horse Breeds

A

Abyssinian Horses Akhal-Teke Horses Albanian Horses Altai Horses American Cream Draft Horses American Creme and White Horses American Walking Pony Andalusian Horses Andravida Horses Anglo-Kabarda Horses Appaloosa Horses Araappaloosa Horses Arabian Horses Ardennes Horses Argentine Criollo Horses Asturian Horses Australian Brumby Horses Australian Stock Horses Azteca Horses

B

Balearic Horse Baluchi Horses Banker Horses Ban-ei Horses Barb Horses Bashkir Horses Bashkir Curly Horses Basotho Pony Belgian Horses Bhirum Pony Bhotia Pony Boer Horses Bosnian Mountain Horses Breton Horses Buckskin Horses Budyonny Horses Byelorussian Harness Horses

C

Camargue Horses Campolina Horses Canadian Horses Carthusian Horses Caspian Horses Cayuse Indian Pony Cheju Horses Chilean Corralero Horses Chincoteague Pony Cleveland Bay Horses Clydesdale Horses Colorado Ranger Horses Connemara Pony Criollo (Uruguay) Horses Crioulo Horses

D

Dales Pony Danube Horses Dartmoor Pony Deliboz Horses Djerma Horses Dole Horses Dongola Horses Dulmen Pony Dutch Draft Horses Dutch Warmblood Horses

E

East Bulgarian Horses Egyptian Horses Eriskay Pony Estonian Native Horses Exmoor Pony

F

Faeroes Pony Horses Falabella Horses Fell Pony Finnhorses Fleuve Horses Florida Cracker Horses Fouta Horses Frederiksborg Horses French Saddlebred Horses French Trotter Horses Friesian Horses

G

Galiceño Horses Galician Pony Gelderlander Horses Gidran Horses Golden America Saddlebred Horses Gotland Horses Groningen Horses Guangxi Horses

H

Hackney Horses Haflinger Horses Hanoverian Horses Hequ Horses Highland Pony Hokkaido Horses Hucul Horses Hungarian Warmblood Horses

I

Icelandic Horses Iomud Horses Irish Draught Horses

J

Jinzhou Horses Jutland Horses

K

Kabarda Horses Karabair Horses Karabakh Horses Kazakh Horses Kerry Bog Pony Kiger Mustang Horses Kirdi Pony Kisber Felver Horses Kiso Horses Kladruby Horses Knabstrup Horses Kushum Horses Kustanai Horses

L

Latvian Horses Lithuanian Heavy Draft Horses Lipizzan Horses Lokai Horses Losino Horses Lusitano Horses

M

Malopolski Horses Mangalarga Horses Marwari Horses M'Bayar Pony Mérens Pony Messara Horses Miniature Horses Misaki Horses Missouri Fox Trotting Horses Miyako Horses Mongolian Horses Morab Horses Morgan Horses Moyle Horses Mustang Horses Murgese Horses

N

National Show Horses New Forest Pony New Kirgiz Horses Newfoundland Pony Nokota Horses Noma Horses Nooitgedacht Pony Noric Horses Nordland Horses Northeastern - Crioulo Horses North Swedish Horses Norwegian Fjord Horses

O

Ob Pony Oldenburg Horses Orlov Trotter Horses

P

Paint Horses Palomino Horses Pantaneiro - Crioulo Horses Paso Fino Horses Percheron Horses Peruvian Paso Horses Pindos Pony Pinia Horses Pintabian Horses Pinto Horses Polish Konik Horses Pony of the Americas Pottok Horses Przewalski Horses Pyrenean Tarpan Horses

Q

Qatgani Horses Quarab Horses Quarter Horses Quarter Pony

R

Racking Horses Rocky Mountain Horses Russian Don Horses Russian Heavy Draft Horses Russian Trotter Horses

T

Taishuh Horses Tarpan Horses Tawleed Horses Tennessee Walking Horses Tersk Horses Thessalian Horses Thoroughbred Horses Tokara Horses Tori Horses Trakehner Horses

U

Ukrainian Saddle Horses

V

Vlaamperd Horses Vladimir Heavy Draft Horses Vyatka Horses

W

Welara Horses Welsh Pony & Cob West African Barb Horses Western Sudan Pony Wielkopolski Horses

X

Xilingol Horses

Y

Yakut Horses Yanqi Horses Yili Horses Yonaguni Horses

Z

Zaniskari Pony Zhemaichu Horses