{"id":726,"date":"2010-08-09T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=726"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:02:34","slug":"kalmyk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/kalmyk","title":{"rendered":"Kalmyk Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Also called the Kalmyskaya, the Kalmyk Horse originally comes from <a href=\"\/breeds\/mongolian\">Mongolian<\/a> lines and is bred in the territory along the Volga and Ural rivers. Physically they resemble the <a href=\"\/breeds\/kirghiz\">Kirghiz<\/a> breed in many ways, except they are taller and tend to be rougher in conformation.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>The Kalmyk people came to Russia in the 17th century and were of <a href=\"\/breeds\/mongolian\">Mongolian<\/a> origin, bringing livestock and horses with them. The horse earned a reputation for being hardy and possessing notable endurance, even if they were not especially beautiful to look at. <\/p>\n<p>Once agriculture became more mechanized the need for these horses declined and by 1943 selective breeding came to a halt. Later, in 1986 the Kalmyk University of Cattle Breeding went on a mission to locate and count animals of the ancient Kalmyk breed (although purebred animals were considered all but gone). The goal was to establish the purest animals and set up a stud program to save the breed. The best specimens were found in the eastern regions where the animals were more physically isolated. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 14.2 &#8211; 15 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is coarse with a straight or convex profile<br \/>\nNeck is short<br \/>\nBack is short<br \/>\nLegs are lean and strong (hind legs can be cow-hocked)<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/colors\/base\/chestnut\">chestnut<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/base\/black\">black<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/brown\">brown<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Riding horse<br \/>\nHarness horse<br \/>\nMeat production<br \/>\nMilk production<\/p>\n<h3>More Images<\/h3>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/kalmyk-horse-2.webp\" alt=\"Kalmyk Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/kalmyk-horse-4.webp\" alt=\"Kalmyk Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"credit\">Image from <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Jument_kalmouke_1923.jpg\">Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/kalmyk-horse-1.webp\" alt=\"Kalmyk Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/kalmyk-horse-3.webp\" alt=\"Kalmyk Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/worceprcJcA?si=z7ZDDqMuRxJ7dNRA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro Also called the Kalmyskaya, the Kalmyk Horse originally comes from Mongolian lines and is bred in the territory along the Volga and Ural rivers. Physically they resemble the Kirghiz breed in many ways, except they are taller and tend to be rougher in conformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[5,4,118,11],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-brown","tag-chestnut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","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=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10211,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/10211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}