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Old 06-28-2007, 11:14 PM   #1
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How can you tell what breed horses are, just by their markings, shapes and sizes?
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Old 06-29-2007, 05:43 AM   #2
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Stripes.. White on black or black on white.. Aka... A Zebra. Its its natrual colour.

Feathers.. Stocky built tall horses.. Could be a cob, Clydie, Shire.. ect ect.

Thin Dishy headded things.. Arabian.. Arabian x


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People see something and will go BLAH BLAH BLAH w/e there opinion.. Is!
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Old 06-29-2007, 08:51 AM   #3
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Different breeds have different features, whether it be markings, build, etc that are common among that particular breed. It just kind of takes alot of practice and knowledge about the different breeds to recognize them.

Just as some examples (using some extremely different horse breeds, so you can kind of see the difference):

Arabian:

http://www.arabianhorses.org/images/424279.jpg

Notice the small, petite build, the high-set tail, the small, dished faced, etc. All of those features are extremely common among Arabs.

Paint Horse:

http://rockinkfarm.com/images/imprin...rultimate2.jpg

Notice, obvisouly, the coloring and the stocky, "bull dog" build of the horse.

Shire:

http://www.rossinger.at/bilder/shire-horse.jpg

A typical draft type horse. The massive built and the heavily feathered feet.
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Old 06-30-2007, 01:41 AM   #4
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It is possible to tell SOME breeds. There are to many now that yuo cant just say its that breed. Like was said draft horses normally, arabians and paints sometimes. some breeds are part this and part that. like pintobian is a spotted up arabian you see the characteristics of both the dishy heads of an arabian and the color.of the paint. But if you get down to it sometimes you cannot derive the difference between a quarterhorse and a stocky throughbred (know one that thought was qh) or the difference bewteen a throughbred/quarter horse cross and a stock paint/walking horse cross. The mustang you cant pinpoint the breed of horse it came from because it is a cross of many. SOMETIMES yuo can tell a horse's breed by some of his characteristics or even if its a cross u can tell what it is a mix with but it has gotten to be too many the answer to the question is YES and No. Truly depends on the horse that is in question.
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Old 06-30-2007, 06:05 AM   #5
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Sometimes you might see a horse trotting in the paddock with it's tail up like an Arab so it MIGHT be one. A small fluffy thing would most likely to be a Shetland. A BIG, TALL, thin horse may be a TB.
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