Not an official breed, the Nangchen horse is native to Tibet and thought to possess unique genetics.
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The Nangchen can be found in the north of Tibet and over 13,000 feet above sea level, where they have likely been bred since around the 9th century. This interesting type was ‘officially’ discovered by Michel Peissel in 1993 while on an expedition to discover new horse types in Tibet. While they had obviously been known to the locals, his research did provide the rest of the world with a more detailed history. He concluded that this little horse was not genetically related to other types in the area and had been selectively bred in isolation for a very long time. <\/p>\n
Average height 13 hands
\nDue to their altitude, their lungs are larger than the average horse lung<\/p>\n
Head is small with a straight or concave profile
\nEyes are large
\nEars are small
\nNeck is long and thin
\nChest is deep
\nBack is straight
\nHindquarters are round
\nLegs are long and thin
\nHooves are small and oval shaped<\/p>\n
Generally bay<\/a>, brown<\/a>, grey<\/a>, chestnut<\/a> or black<\/a> <\/p>\n Docile and useful<\/p>\n Herding Intro Not an official breed, the Nangchen horse is native to Tibet and thought to possess unique genetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,111],"tags":[5,4,118,11,15],"class_list":["post-9913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-tibet","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-brown","tag-chestnut","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913","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=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10407,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions\/10407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Temperament<\/h3>\n
Use<\/h3>\n
\nTransportation
\nRiding
\nRacing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"