Horses With Hypo Allergenic Coats
The American Bashkir Curly horse has a Hypo Allergenic coat which allows people around them with allergies to suffer little or no effect. The Curly will often completely shed out the mane hair and sometimes the tail in the summer, growing it back in the winter.
The hair of the mane and tail is fine and silky but often quite kinky. The summer coat is often wavy or rather straight with the curls returning in the winter coat.
The American Bashkir Curly transmits the curly characteristics to offspring approximately half of the time even when mated to horses without the curly coat. They appear in all colours including Appaloosa and Pinto.
A typical Curley is of medium size, resembling the early-day Morgan in conformation. They are alert and have a proud carriage. The hooves are black and hard, almost perfectly round in shape.
Curly horses have an exceptionally high concentration of red blood cells, stout, round cannon bones and straight legs. The knees are flat. They have strong hocks, short strong backs; the shoulders are powerful and rounded; and the chest is wide and deep.
Foals arrive with thick, curly coats, curls inside their ears and curly eyelashes.
The American Bashkir Curley dates back to 1898, found by Peter Damele and his father who discovered three horses with tight, curly ringlets covering their entire bodies in the remote high country of central Nevada, near Austin.
Copyright International Museum of the Horse, 1999
For more information contact:
The American Bashkir Curley Registry
http://www.abcregistry.org/
International Curley Horse Organisation
http://www.curlyhorse.org/
Added on: 18/05/07.
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