The Baltic Ardennes was a strain of the mighty Ardennes breed<\/a>, bred specifically in Latvia. The type was absorbed into the Estonian<\/a>, Lithuanian<\/a> and Latvian draft studbooks. Now considered extinct, the Baltic Ardennes was primarily used for heavy agricultural work. They were successful enough, but like many of world’s draft breeds saw their numbers decline during the mechanization of mid 20th century. <\/p>\n Average height 15.7 hands<\/p>\n Head is broad with a hooked muzzle Generally chestnut<\/a>, bay<\/a> or brown<\/a><\/p>\n Docile and kind Agriculture Intro The Baltic Ardennes was a strain of the mighty Ardennes breed, bred specifically in Latvia. The type was absorbed into the Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvian draft studbooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[5,118,11,125],"class_list":["post-9503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latvia","tag-bay","tag-brown","tag-chestnut","tag-extinct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503","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=9503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9504,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions\/9504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/p>\nOrigins<\/h3>\n
Features<\/h3>\n
Physique<\/h3>\n
\nNeck is muscular
\nChest is broad
\nHindquarters are muscular
\nLegs are solid
\nHooves are wide and flat<\/p>\nTraditional Colors<\/h3>\n
Temperament<\/h3>\n
\nCalm and tolerant disposition<\/p>\nUse<\/h3>\n
\nTransportation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"