The Polesian Horse or Polesakya comes from the marshy Pripet area of the Ukraine and the Byelorussian lowlands. These are native animals that belong to the forest type, similar to the Zhmud breed<\/a>. Polesian animals are of ancient descent and come from the now extinct Tarpan<\/a> that has been native to the marsh regions of Byelorussia since at least the 2nd century BC. Regional breeding of the Polesian horse began in the 1st century AD.<\/p>\n This breed was kept pure for many years under brutal conditions, including harsh weather and poor feed, not to mention hard work. In eastern areas other breeds were slowly introduced, ending pure lineage. However western regions are far more remote and their animals remained untouched by outside blood. The animals in these western regions carry many of the original Konik forest horse characteristics.<\/p>\n Sadly WWII was almost the end of the breed. However in the middle of the 20th century, Polesian horses were studied and breeding programs established to preserve their ancient bloodlines. As of 1988 the DAD-IS reported their numbers between 100-1000. <\/p>\n There are two types found within the breed, a massive type and a lighter, more refined type. <\/p>\n Average height 13.2 – 15 hands<\/p>\n Head is medium sized with a straight or slightly dished profile chestnut<\/a> | grey<\/a> | bay<\/a> | black<\/a> | dun<\/a><\/p>\n Willing and hardy<\/p>\n Agriculture Intro The Polesian Horse or Polesakya comes from the marshy Pripet area of the Ukraine and the Byelorussian lowlands. These are native animals that belong to the forest type, similar to the Zhmud breed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[5,4,11,30,15],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belarus","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-chestnut","tag-dun","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10174,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/10174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/p>\nOrigins<\/h3>\n
Features<\/h3>\n
Physique<\/h3>\n
\nNeck is medium in length
\nChest is long, deep and wide
\nShoulder is well slanted
\nBack is long and straight
\nLegs are clean and sturdy
\nHooves are strong and hard<\/p>\nTraditional Colors<\/h3>\n
Temperament<\/h3>\n
Use<\/h3>\n
\nTransportation
\nWork horse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"