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About the Konik Breed
.There are several native breeds of pony
in Poland, which go under the general name of Konik (meaning
‘small horse’). These all have their own names;
Hucul, Zmudzin, Bilgoraj Konik, and many others. The Bilgoraj
Konik, in particular, is said to be a direct descendant of wild
horses.
In 1936 attempts were made by Professor Vetulani of Pozan University
to breed the forest horse back to its original wild state. The
great forest of Bialowieza was made into a national park, and
among the animals brought back there were a stallion, ‘Tref’,
and a mare, ‘Czajka’, both of which had the remarkable
property, possessed by certain animals, such as the hare, grouse,
etc., of turning white in winter, a characteristic unusual of
the horse. Every winter they changed their mouse-grey summer
coats, with the black dorsal stripes, into white coats, only
the face, fetlocks, mane and tail retaining the normal dark
colour. After three years of breeding there were eighteen horses
in the park at Bialowieza, of which eight had been born in the
forest. Some of these inherited the characteristic of changing
from a summer coat to a winter coat. The same Professor Vetulani
asserts that the wild horse, described by Herodotus as grazing
in the northern marshy land may well have been this Polish wild
pony grazing in the Polesie bogs situated close to the Bialowieza
Forest.
Apart from the Konik, the greater proportion of the Polish peasant
horses being to the type of Mierzyn, which means a medium horse
between two sizes, usually 13 to 14 hands. The small size, as
in all these native pony breeds, is more than compensated by
their outstanding qualities of hardiness, endurance, ability
to live on next to nothing, vitality and great fertility, which
they always transmit unimpaired to their progeny. Both the Konik
and his cousin the Mierzyn are remarkably long-lived, and capable
of work up to a considerable age. It is quite common in Poland
to see a 25 year old pony still able to work.
In the Baltic States also there is a very popular horse called
the ‘Konik horse of the trotter type’, which is,
in fact, a working horse. It is derived from a small native
horse graded-up during many generations by trotter stallions.
This breed represents a medium-sized, tough and good-tempered
working horse, and is held in high esteem for its hardiness,
endurance, speed and unexacting food requirements. In short,
its virtues are the result of its vigorous upbringing in severe
climatic conditions.
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