Heavy Groningen Horse

While the groningen were almost unwaveringly solid black.

Heavy groningen horse. The croup is even and the. It is closely related to heavy warmblood breeds like the east friesian and alt oldenburger. The groningen is a typical draft horse used to pull heavy carts and carriages. Its eyes are lively.

The groningen horse is a dutch horse breed developed for light draft and agricultural work. This breed is often associated with other dutch horses. In the 1970s the groningen breed nearly became extinct when only one purebred stallion remained other than its crossbred descendants in the dutch warmblood breed. However because of their calm disposition and low maintenance cost they are quite popular as a family horse as well.

The breed was nearly lost in the mid 20th century because a significant number of mares were used for crossbreeding to create the dutch warmblood leaving few. The groningen horse is a breed that developed in the netherlands that developed as a working horse light draft work. The gelderlander was a more elegant variation often serving as a carriage horse in addition to a useful draft horse. The groningen standard calls for a heavy horse with the legs about half their height and a rectangular frame with the body from point of shoulder to point of buttock about 10 more than the height of the horse at the withers.

The neck is broad and muscular. It is closely related to heavy warmblood breeds like the east friesian and alt oldenburger the breed was nearly lost in the mid 20th century because a significant number of mares were used for crossbreeding to create the dutch warmblood leaving few purebreds. The ears are somewhat long in length. The typical groningen horse has a head with a long structure.

The heavy warmbloods german. With the mechanization of agriculture this heavy farm horse was bred with lighter breeds producing a heavyweight saddle horse and an excellent carriage horse. The groningen was and still is a heavy set warmblood horse very similar to the alt oldenburger and east friesian. The title includes the ostfriesen east friesian and alt oldenburger old oldenburger groningen and similar horses from silesia saxony thuringia and bavaria breeds like the hungarian nonius kladruber and cleveland bay are also often classed as heavy warmbloods.

However they are suitable for moderately experienced owners. 462 it derives from cross breeding of local zeeland mares with the. Schwere warmblüter are a group of horse breeds primarily from continental europe. Nederlands trekpaard is a dutch breed of heavy draft horse it is of cold blood type massively built and calm in temperament.

Ideally the groningen stands between 15 3 and 16 1 hands high. It has good stamina. The gronigan horse is a heavy dutch warmblood that has close connections to the gelderland breed although it is larger more robust like the gelderland the groningan has essentially been absorbed into the dutch warmblood registry. It was bred in the early twentieth century in the province of zeeland and may for that reason be known as the zeeland horse or dutch.