#hucul pony

[rockymountainqueen2]

Rewilding Europe has some gorgeous horse art.

[thunderboltfire]

After two and a half months of riding in a new stable, I've come to the following conclusions:

I was not stupid or snobby searching for a better riding school. Horses that habitually buck people off, kick at each other, nip and bite and threaten to kick people are in fact, not an unavoidable thing you have to accept and endure in a riding school environment. Learning to ride on horses that are generally happy, chill and not overworked but are consistently taught boundaries is so, so much better, it legitimately feels like an easy mode.

Same thing with teachers. They don't make You a favor by being there, You don't have to put up with ridiculing, guilt-tripping and shouting.

It seems like no one has gave me the necessary technical advice before. When I was actually told how to do it, I can't believe sitting the trot is so easy. Pleasant, even. Fun. I'm angry that I've spent years bouncing around like an idiot because people act like you should instinctively know what to do by trial and error, and like hours in the saddle should alone fix the issue.

I've also for the first time had someone walk me through on what to do when a horse doesn't do what it's told and correct the timing of my cues, instead of expecting me to apply more force, like it's going to fix the problem.

My balance isn't shitty, actually, I was just tense all the time and gripped with my knees because I've ridden unpredictable horses, and falls were very common. The school of hard knocks doesn't always improve your riding technique, it can actively worsen it.

Anyway, here's to searching for what's right for you. Let nobody trick you into feeling guilty because of having standards. It can be better.

[thunderboltfire]

Hey I'm NOT an animal coat color genetics expert, but I dabbled in it a little bit.

horses have two pigments determining their coat color - red and black.

They also have two genes controlling their base color - Extension ("E") and Agouti ("A"). Extension determines if a horse produces the black pigment at all, and agouti tells us where it's located.

Chestnuts are at the bottom of epistatic hierarchy, meaning that any other genetic combination makes it not occur, essentially "covers" it.

Chestnut is the rarest of the basic coats, because it requires two copies of recessive extension alleles (marked as 'E' - any horse that has ee in its genotype will be chestnut-based). It can have any agouti alleles, though.

Black is actually a similar case, because it only occurs if a horse has two recessive agouti alleles (aa). It takes only one dominant extension allele to make a black horse, so it can be either Ee or EE.

Add a single dominant Agouti allele to a black horse and you have a bay, because agouti restricts black pigment only to the points, mane and tail creating a bay pattern.

Technically, the plainest and naturally the most prolific basic color would be bay - so the OP is right saying that chestnuts are definitely not the most plain even out of the basic coat colours.

in short:

ee - no black pigment (only red pigment)

Ee, EE - black pigment present

aa - no restriction of black pigment

Aa, AA - restriction of black pigment (bay pattern)

ee + aa, Aa or AA - a horse doesn't produce a black pigment at all, agouti can be there or not, it does nothing bc there's nothing to restrict. A horse is chestnut!

Ee or EE + aa - a horse produces black pigment, but there's no agouti to restrict it. A horse is black!

Ee or EE + Aa or AA - a horse produces black pigment and it's restricted to the points and manes. A horse is bay!

It makes chestnut technically the rarest out of them all, BUT also it's the easiest to maintain in breeding. If You cross a chestnut and a chestnut, it's ee x ee - there's no dominant E allele to inherit, so the offspring HAS to be chestnut. That's why there's quite a few all-chestnut breeds - haflingers, suffolk punches, and a vast majority of gidrans are chestnut.

The situation differs a bit when You want to restrict a breed's color to be only black - your horse can be Ee and still be black, so if You unknowingly cross Ee x Ee, You have a chance to get an ee - or a chestnut. That's why every so often a chestnut friesian pops up, depite its parents and all recorded ancestors being black.

So, while chestnut is rarer than bay and black, it's next to impossible to completely get rid of a chance of getting a chestnut. AFAIK chestnut color is not approved in hucul ponies, but they still pop up sometimes, despite of the fact that no chestnut horse has been permitted in breeding for decades.

As far as the cultural approach goes, coat colors are always a matter of fashion and personal taste. If I were to guess, I'd say that the current proliferation of the 'basic coat colours' in sport horses is the result of them being used in the military in the past. Some armies preferred to have cavalry units on horses of uniform colour, there was also a period when painted horses were looked down upon as less noble looking. If You have a herd of chestnuts, blacks and bays, the results of breeding are pretty easy to predict and will mostly be constrained to just those colours - chestnut, bay and black. Nowadays diluted colors and patterns are fashionable, people are fascinated by the diversity of equine coats and often deem the basic colors to be boring, but it was not always this way!

This is completely off the wall, and idk TOO much abt horse genetics or even history, but from what I DO know, chestnut is a super common, considered p basic color but it's essentially recessive to... anything else? Literally any other coat base and/or modifier? Is that right? And based on cave paintings and Przewalski's, it doesn't seem like the original, primitive, wild horse breeds would've been chestnut. They had more bay or dun coloration, primitive markings, etc. So do u think part of the reason chestnut is so common is bc, at some point in human history, it WASN'T considered this basic plain jane color, it was actually like "OOOOH, this horse is RED!! It's JUST RED!!" and people tried to breed for that and it became more common bc it WAS considered special at some point? And then ofc some horses were used to establish breeds where types and colors were restricted and bam, proliferation, but my point is, it feels like chestnuts get overlooked a lot as rly plain, but do u think at one point they were considered special and sought after? idk im emotional i saw that post abt how pigeons were once loved and cared for and now they're treated like rats with wings and idk why i started thinking abt chestnut horses but do u ever think something similar happened??? im drunk and sorry

you sound like me when i'm manic i can't give an honest answer cause i am not a genetics nerd and haven't looked into the history but i mean they could have been like "hell yeah dude it's red, lets name it ruby.. and that one too" thus creating the never ending cycle of red mares named ruby

[all-the-horses]

Prislop Zefir

Prislop x Ousor Borcsa

Hucul Pony, Stallion

Born 2006

[suetravelblog]

Medieval Snagov Orthodox Monastery Romania

Medieval Snagov Orthodox Monastery Romania

Snagov Forest – Photo Sorin Onisor Last week, I visited Snagov Monastery, about a 30-mile drive from Bucharest. During the time of the medieval states that existed in the feudal period, the monastery was Wallachia’s most important spiritual centre”. I’ve long been fascinated with mystic locations, and orthodox monasteries are a favorite. Romanians are pious people, and in a hectic world of…

[mwagneto]

my horse is half hucul half ??? and ive been looking into horse colours trying to find out what his other parent might be for like 10 minutes now and i give up he literally doesn't look like any colour google could bring up. madness luv he's an original

[draft-horses-stole-my-heart]

sometimes i'm just amazed how freaking great my pony is 💖

[dharmaart]

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is disgusting and utterly reprehensible.

The drawing is of a Hucul pony, a breed native to Ukraine (and some other Eastern European countries). I don't normally like to share much in the way of what I think, it feels a bit performative but this is something that is very important.

[meirimerens]

you're a cool horse person right 👉👈 could you assign horses to pathologic characters? 👉👈👉👈 yknow... if horses existed in pathologic.... (still upset and disappointed that they don't)

hi bestie. sorry for late reply, was fucking off to the mountains. ok so basically. i did something quite similar a while ago on twitter, which is a thread of. what if the characters themselves were horses right. scroll thru it [here]. MOST of Characters As Horses Horses fit for Characters WITH Horses Horses. some i'll change so lemme run thru the thread again:

"artemy normand cob or some kind of cross draft horse x quarter horse flaxen chestnut" i stand by it.

i'd also add maybe a horse like that: i've seen some this week in the mountains. no idea of the breed. some kind of creature. flaxen chestnut and nothing ELSE

"clara arabian filly" i stand by the arabian. freak 4 freak riding pair. one that doesn't have a too-fucked-up face. like that

"daniil morgan horse" eh! not for riding. i think he'd have a russian don

or a karachay

both were used by russian cavalry and since dankovsky's dad was a militaryman [P1 lore which i go by] i think he'd have brought his son a pony.

"the twins: marwari horse" yeah i see it.

i think they'd be hard to come by but they're #special like that. otherwise shove these suckers on orlov trotters

"grace: no care for breed cremello" yeah i stand by it

"maria kaina: arabo-friesian" literally and nothing else

"caspar khan kain: icelandic pony" i stand by it.

"eva yan: palomino akhal téké" i do stand by it

but in the event that they are too hard to come by, give her a betiful grey orlov trotter too

i think eva would be kinda scared of horses. also she's barefoot like babygirl stay AWAY from hooves i'm so scared for you.

"yulia lyuricheva: lipizzaner" literallyyyy

also for fun i think she's have a hucul pony

"murky" literally. just give her some kind of mini

when she becomes too tall i think she can have a little mongolian horse. they're pretty small. funny shape

"sticky mountain welsh pony" real.

hard to come by in eastern russia tho so i think he can have a mongolian horse too

"notkin" yeah. idc about the breed. gotta be bay roan tho

"bad grief: chestnut pinto mustang" sure. not many mustangs in eastern russia + i think horses freak him out but he can have that

or he can get a vatkya. to snort at him

"lara ravel: blue dun lusitano" i stand by it. i also think she's not too keen on horses but she can have him. maybe brought back by dad at some point.

"rubin: Percheron. reasoning: huge" real honestly

maybe rare in eastern russian so he can also get a russian heavy draft

"mark immortell: horse with spots" real. i don't think he rides much bc of his bad leg but i bestow him a noriker to pull him around

ok. that is it for today... hmu for any character i didn't put here that you'd want bestowed a horse upon

[ollovae3]

The #MandosonaChallenge is a GO!!

I KNOW it's late, but here's that starter!! Bee in her Rusyn armor, a cape based off Kievan Rus garb, and a saddle similar to medieval Russian tack!! I had a lot of fun with this, and researching my Rusyn background for it?? ���💖💕 (and the Orbak is even based off the Carpathian "Hucul" Pony!)

Gist of the challenge: make yourself a Mandosona (or an OC if you'd like to not show your face) based off your own culture and/or heritage!! Draw their design, draw them in a scene, write a story/blurb for them, or even just some headcanons about a clan based off your culture!!

How would Celts look as Mandos? What about your Mexican roots? Mongolian? Decide how far back you want to go, research, and enjoy!! 🙌🏻🎉

Main guideline is just to avoid anything offensive, and research and use respectfully (ex: no conquistadors/other colonizers, no slapping an "Indian headdress" on someone from a tribe that doesn't/wouldn't wear that, etc.)

Enjoy and tag me, I CANNOT WAIT to see what you make!!??

Close-ups below!! ALSO SO HAPPY WITH THE BACKGROUND IMMA CRY??

[magnoliamyrrh]

just found out about Hucul ponies, also called Carpatchian ponies, native to Romania and Ukraina

look at these pretty babies! i want one so bad !

[thunderboltfire]

“Find yourself a different model, human!” Or how to annoy a perfectly calm hucul pony.

Made in CSP and GIMP

[gustavomirabalcastro]

Raza de caballo poni hucul

El Hucul o también llamado Carpathian es una raza de pony o caballo pequeño procedente de las montañas de los Cárpatos.  #Razadecaballo #ponihucul #GustavoMirabal #GustavoMirabalCastro

Raza de caballo poni hucul En el planeta hay gran diversidad de razas de caballos y cada uno destaca por sus atributos singulares. Sin embargo, es común en la especie que estos animales sean nobles, fuertes y sobre todo muy versátiles. El Hucul o también llamado Carpathian es una raza de pony o caballo pequeño procedente de las montañas de los Cárpatos. Este ejemplar cuenta con una complexión…

[heart-of-europe]

[ Hello children welcome back to ' Janko's assistant leaks more of his stuff ' This time it's all his pets and their names Oravak Hen - Emil Slovak White Goose - Nataša Suchovy Goose - Svätoboj Komorner Tumbler - Agáta Košice Tumbler - Ľubica Košice Highflier - Roderich Piestany Giant Pigeon - Víťazoslav Slovak Pouter - Vojtech Slovak Highflier - Vasil Holic Rabbit - Magdaléna Liptov Baldspotted Rabbit - Ivan Nitra Rabbit - Cyprián Slovak Greyblue Rex - Uršuľa Zemplin Rabbit - Lukáš Zobor Rabbit - Katarína Slovak Spotted Cattle - Sergej Slovak Pinzgau Cattle - Boris Tsigai - František Slovakia Merino Sheep - Bartolomej Native Wallachian Sheep - Oliver Improved Wallachian Sheep - Peregrín White Shorthaired Goat - Konzuela Brown Shorthaired Goat - Servác Hucul Pony - Melánia Slovak Warm-Blooded Horse - Natália Slovak Sport Pony - Demeter Slovak Cuvac - Kvetoslava Slovenský Kopov - Elizabeta Slovakian Rough-Haired Pointer - Vratko Czechoslovakian Wolfdog - Volfgang Cierny Sery - Alexej Until next time children ]

[ilovelaica]

share your riding story? when/how you started riding, all about your first horse, where/what you're doing now and everything in between! aiming to ask this to as many people on horsblr as possible!

I took care of ‘my’ first horse when I was 6. It was a bay holstein gelding named Amadeus S, his owner rode 1.50m classes with him and I cared for him for a long time. I cleaned his stable, brushed and cuddled him and walked him since he was sick (of course just when my Mom was around). He died in the age of 20.

I started riding in the age of 8 or 9. The first pony I rode was a overo hucul gelding named Frechdachs. When my trainer left the stable I stopped riding for one year, then the stable got a new trainer and I continued taking lessons.I first rode a haflinger mare named Lucy, later when I grew too big I rode a bay mare named Resi, but the barn owner sold her to a slaughter after 3 years without telling me. I stopped riding again and took care of my sisters lesson horse Laica. After 5 years I got allowed to lease Laica and I rode lessons from time to time but I had big problems with the trainer so I stopped taking lessons (cause he wasnt correcting me anymore). The barn allowed me to buy Laica when I’m 18, but Laica got sold in April 2015 without my knowledge and nobody told me where she is now.I went away from the stable and started a job education in north germany in July 2016. I helped to train and ride the horses there, I had 2 horses there for myself. But my boss and her sister in law were treating the horses terrible, they abused the horses in every way and I had to work at least 10 hours EVERY day. Gladly I left them after 6 months.

Since this time I had no option to ride a horse, also I had a knee surgery and I’m not allowed to ride again too soon. But I still try to go to horse shows etc cause I really miss being around horses.

[mwagneto]

can we see the horse? pretty please :)

i don't have any pics of him yet 😭😭 he's a hucul/unknown pony mix and he's greyish but he's not even three so he's gonna get lighter, hopefully I'll have some pics soon tho