[randomhero97]

No mention of GW as the cause?

[blam]

Similar article with many pictures here.

[sinanju]

Fascinating. Guess it’s easier to preserve “heirloom” domestic plant strains than domestic critters.

[Larry R. Johnson]

Well by golly gee whizz! I don’t know nuthin’ ‘bout no tough livestock, but I sure likes my steaks tender. WTF?

[Farmer Dean]

We own a mare that’s mostly Spanish mustang.Very smart and very,very tough.Most horse people don’t have a lot of appreciation for the old bloodline horses,but a couple hundred years ago people that depended on their animals knew how to breed for superior animals.

[olezip]

Fascinating article. We are interested in raising some of these rare breeds, particularly the goats and other livestock other than horses.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Highland cattle, according to one article I read, do very well in the northern great plains. Handle the cold better than most other domestic cattle. Small, but still standing at the end of a cold winter.

[blam]

You all probably don't know that the US has it's own aboriginal dog...been here 10,000 years.

The Dixie Dingo

[RightWhale]

They say there were horses in the Americas before the Euros introduced them and that some tribes had them domesticated. I am not conversant with breeds of horses so won’t add anything beyond this.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Very interesting article, appreciate your posting it!

[hosepipe]

I thought this was a slam at republicans..

[ottbmare]

So if the Spanish brought their horses to a continent on which there had not previously been horses for thousands of years, presumably the Spanish stock had no indigenous stock to breed with, and the horses bred among each other. With me so far? The next question is, how are these animals genetically different from the ones left behind in Spain and Portugal--the Andalusians and Lusitanos? I don't see how it would be possible for the Choctaws to be genetically different if no new blood was introduced. Which makes one wonder why it's so important to save them. Goodness knows we have no shortage of PRE horses (caballos de pura raza espanol) either in this country or in Spain.

[khnyny]

bump for later read.