The Chakouyi or Chahou Post is a breed from the Tibetan Autonomous County of Tianzhu, Yongding, and Gulang County, Ganshu Province, China.
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Linked to the Silk Road, the Chahou Post pony developed along the route and were used for delivering mail. Like the Pony Express in the US, Post pony needed to be robust, calm and possess incredible stamina. As the Silk Road grew busier farms sprung up along the way to breed these ponies. As horse traffic along the route eventually disappeared, they were such good saddle horses that their breeding continued. They are particularly favored for their natural ability to amble. <\/p>\n
Average height 12.1 – 12.8 hands<\/p>\n
Head is medium length with a straight profile
\nEyes are large and bright
\nEars are small
\nchest is broad and deep
\nBack is medium length
\nBelly is rounded
\nCroup is sloping
\nLegs are strong<\/p>\n
Generally bay<\/a>, but also found in grey<\/a>, chestnut<\/a> and black<\/a><\/p>\n Steadfast and true Pack animal Intro The Chakouyi or Chahou Post is a breed from the Tibetan Autonomous County of Tianzhu, Yongding, and Gulang County, Ganshu Province, China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[5,4,11,15],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-chestnut","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","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=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10380,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/10380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Temperament<\/h3>\n
\nWilling and tough<\/p>\nUse<\/h3>\n
\nTransportation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"