DEFINING THE BREED STANDARDS AND BREEDING GOALS FOR DOMESTIC MOUNTAIN HORSE

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Bunevski Gj.
Nikitovic J.
Prishenk J.
Janzekovic M.
Mergedush A.
Sekovska B.
Stojanovski S.
Trajkovski B.

Abstract

Domestic mountain horse is a transpoundary breed present in many Balkan countries. According to the Low of Animal Production of R. of Macedonia from 2008, for every breed of domestic animal in our state is nessesery to create a separate breeding program. In 2013 in low of animal production the autohtonous breeds of equidaes are added two new varietes - domestic mountain horse and domestic donkey. Facing the obtained results from estimating the main morphological, reproductive and functional traits in 220 domestic mountain horses in central mountain part of Macedonia during 2015 and 2016, the current standards and breeding goals were defined for the next national breeding program of this breed. According to the fact that the domestic mountain horse is a metapopulation and transboundary breed of horse in almost all Balkan countries, it is a good recommendation to create a regional breeding program with flexible standards and breeding goals for this breed of horses for all Balkan countries together.

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