Original scientific paper

Pony breeding in Croatia

Mato Čačić
Nidal Korabi
Domagoj Tadić
Slaven Kolarić
Mirna Mlađenović
Jelena Pavan

Abstract

In 2003 an intensive registration of ponies was started in the Croatian Livestock Center which resulted in a significant in¬crease of the number of ponies in the central register of the Rep¬ublic of Croatia. The population of the Croatian pony is phenotipically and genetically rather diverse and by the exterior charac¬teristics very similar to the Shetland pony. To a smaller degree there are characteristics of other pony breeds. By gender, all body measurements are insignificantly higher in females except for significantly bigger long bone circumference in stallions (P < 0.05). Comparing body indexes per gender only significantly higher boniness has been determined in stallions in relation to females (P < 0.05). By withers height (99.94 cm) pony population in the Republic of Croatia can be classified in the group of small ponies.

Keywords

pony; Republic of Croatia, phenotipic characteristics; breeding

Hrčak ID:

1975

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/1975

Publication date:

10.2.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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