SuperCoblet
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I've never been able to get my head around cold bloods and warm bloods. What breeds to they consist of and what does it actually mean?
Thanks x
Thanks x
Cold and warm blood help please!
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Firewell
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Cold bloods are natives and drafts. Warmbloods are a hot blood such as a TB or Arab crossed with a cold blooded horse 
, obviously modern warmblood breeding is a lot more sophisticated then that but the principle is the same.
, obviously modern warmblood breeding is a lot more sophisticated then that but the principle is the same.
FanyDuChamp
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Not all drafts are cold bloods. Continental ones tend to be cold bloods. I think shires and clydesdales are warmbloods. Irish draughts are WBs, as are cobs.
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Loika
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I have already writtern an essay but lost it at the last minute!
Bascially
Hotbloods are Arabs and TB's.
Cold Bloods are everything else.
Warmblood is a term applied to the modern sports horse breeding programmes in Europe. For example my TB mare with a verified pedigree, when crossed with a performance tested hanovarian stallion, on acceptance can have her progeny resgitered with full pink papers. A horse that has parents entered into the studbook (in this case Hanovarian) but has not been presented for inspection against the studbooks criteria or does not meet these targets will be issued with white papers. There is no such thing as a warmblood cross, they are, with a couple of exceptions open studbooks so are technically not breeds. A closed studbook can be said to be a breed, eg TB's which has been closed for about 200yrs.
Horse breeds are manmade and subject to various stages of "improvement" with another (usually TB's through history), this is confusing but they are still not warmbloods.
I have reams of information on the subject as it is a specific interest of mine. I have tried to be factual and accurate, if in any doubt I can provide examples of the warmblood concept's fickle nature. For example, the most famous Hanovarian stallion and probably the reason for the Studbook's popularity Donnerhall, both parents were Oldenburg.
Hope that helps!!
Bascially
Hotbloods are Arabs and TB's.
Cold Bloods are everything else.
Warmblood is a term applied to the modern sports horse breeding programmes in Europe. For example my TB mare with a verified pedigree, when crossed with a performance tested hanovarian stallion, on acceptance can have her progeny resgitered with full pink papers. A horse that has parents entered into the studbook (in this case Hanovarian) but has not been presented for inspection against the studbooks criteria or does not meet these targets will be issued with white papers. There is no such thing as a warmblood cross, they are, with a couple of exceptions open studbooks so are technically not breeds. A closed studbook can be said to be a breed, eg TB's which has been closed for about 200yrs.
Horse breeds are manmade and subject to various stages of "improvement" with another (usually TB's through history), this is confusing but they are still not warmbloods.
I have reams of information on the subject as it is a specific interest of mine. I have tried to be factual and accurate, if in any doubt I can provide examples of the warmblood concept's fickle nature. For example, the most famous Hanovarian stallion and probably the reason for the Studbook's popularity Donnerhall, both parents were Oldenburg.
Hope that helps!!