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They look like ordinary foals, docile with honey brown coats and white facial patches, content to spend their days munching alfalfa in a cordoned-off pasture in rural Buenos Aires province. But these ...

Researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science s (VMBS) are helping uncover new information about the Y chromosome in horses, which will help owners identify ...

A new genetic study examining the ancestry of the park herd found they are most closely connected to large draft horse breeds, and show little Spanish mustang influence. Some horses at Theodore ...

Although the breed was developed in Peru, Peruvian Pasos were bred from horses that were brought to South America from Spain. As a gaited horse, Peruvian Pasos naturally perform specific patterns of ...

Horse cross breeding dates back millennia, with mentions of mules (a horse crossed with a donkey) appearing in the Bible during King David's reign around 1000 BCE. Before that, the Botai people of ...

Modern veterinary practices have proven instrumental to the Nigerian horse breeding industry, with traditional methods being relied upon predominantly before this breakthrough. Today, modern ...

Percherons are notable for their size. The average Percheron horse size is 16 to 17 hands (64 to 68 inches) high at the withers, and they typically weigh 1,900 to 2,100 pounds. Compare this to ...