{"id":379,"date":"2010-08-09T02:04:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=379"},"modified":"2025-10-31T03:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:17:16","slug":"chaidamu-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/chaidamu-pony","title":{"rendered":"Chaidamu Pony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Chaidamu pony is from the Mongolian family located in Dulan, Geermu and Wulan County in the Qinghai Province of China.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>This breed is a descendant of the Mongolian horse and presumably still a type of the breed. It seems that desertification of the Chaidamu Basin for which they are named has led to a decline in their numbers. This area has traditionally been celebrated for animal breeding, from horses to sheep and yaks. <\/p>\n<p>Genetically the Chaidamu is part of the Tibetan Plateau horse group and they are similar genetically to <a href=\"\/breeds\/hequ\">Hequ<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/datong\">Datong<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/yushu\">Yushu<\/a> animals. <\/p>\n<p>According to the DAD-IS they are considered at risk and as of 2021 there were 6777 left.   <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 12.6 &#8211; 12.8 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Moderate size Mongolian type<br \/>\nHead is wide and short<br \/>\nBody is strong and round<br \/>\nLegs are short<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/colors\/base\/black\">black<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/base\/chestnut\">chestnut<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/greying\">grey<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Willing and able<br \/>\nKind and sociable<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Draught horse<br \/>\nSport horse<br \/>\nRiding horse<\/p>\n<h3>More Images<\/h3>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/chaidamu-horse-1.webp\" alt=\"Chaidamu Pony\"  \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro The Chaidamu pony is from the Mongolian family located in Dulan, Geermu and Wulan County in the Qinghai Province of China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[126,4,11,15],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-at-risk","tag-black","tag-chestnut","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","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=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10379,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/10379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}