The Karakacan or Karakachan breed comes from Bulgaria and is thought to be quite old. They are developed using traditional methods, raised outside as nature intended.
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A native breed of Bulgaria these hardy animals have long been useful to the Karakachan people of Bulgaria. Left to their own devices, the herds live outside year around and migrate between summer and winter feeding grounds with little human intervention. <\/p>\n
This is a heavier small mountain type and are used mainly as transportation for both goods and people to hard to access and mountainous areas. <\/p>\n
Average height 12.6-13 hands<\/p>\n
Head is long with slightly convex profile
\nEyes are small and vivid
\nNeck is short and muscular
\nChest is broad and deep
\nBack is broad and sometimes concave
\nLegs are short and thick
\nHooves are hard<\/p>\n
Almost always bay<\/a> or brown<\/a> <\/p>\n Dependable and calm<\/p>\n Riding Intro The Karakacan or Karakachan breed comes from Bulgaria and is thought to be quite old. They are developed using traditional methods, raised outside as nature intended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulgaria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8848,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/8848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Temperament<\/h3>\n
Use<\/h3>\n
\nTransportation
\nPack animal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"