Originally developed for military use they were later popular for hunting at which they seem to excel. These animals are tough as nails and can walk through or over almost anything.
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This is a specific type of Mongolian horse<\/a> that dates back to the middle of the 17th century. They were developed in China by crossing different Mongolian<\/a> strains in northeastern China. Originally developed for military use they were later popular for hunting at which they seem to excel. <\/p>\n The resulting animal is robust, easy to keep and able to cover amazing distances while carrying amazing loads. Like many breeds, inhospitable climates create incredibly resilient animals. Surviving sub freezing temperatures and days without food – during severe winters hunters will feed their horses dried boar meat. <\/p>\n Average height 12 – 12.3 hands<\/p>\n Head is heavy and tapering Generally grey<\/a> or bay<\/a>, but can be found in most colors<\/a><\/p>\n Steady and honest <\/p>\n Hunting horse Intro Originally developed for military use they were later popular for hunting at which they seem to excel. These animals are tough as nails and can walk through or over almost anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[5,15],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-bay","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6849,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/6849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Features<\/h3>\n
Physique<\/h3>\n
\nNeck is short, thick and heavily muscled
\nBack is long and strong
\nHindquarters are strong and well muscled
\nLegs are short with good bones and strong joints
\nHooves are well shaped and very hard<\/p>\nTraditional Colors<\/h3>\n
Temperament<\/h3>\n
Use<\/h3>\n
\nPleasure horse
\nTransportation
\nPack animal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"