Foutanké
.jpg?lang=en) Foutanké horse in Senegal | |
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The Foutanké or Fouta is a breed or type of light horse from Senegal, in West Africa.[2] It results from the cross-breeding of a Fleuve stallion with an M'Bayar mare; its conformation is similar to that of the Fleuve.[3]: 15 It is one of the four recognised Senegalese horse breeds – the others being the M'Bayar, the Fleuve and the M'Par[4]: 23 – and is highly valued for horse-racing.[5]: 38
History
[edit]The origins of the horse in Senegal are not documented.[6]: 261 In 1996, Senegal had a horse population of about 400,000 head, the largest of any West African country.[5]: 36 This was a substantial increase from the 216,000 reported in 1978,[3]: 10 and a much greater increase from the population after the Second World War, estimated at barely 30,000.[6]: 260 Population numbers for the Foutanké are not reported.[2] In 2007 the FAO did not have data from which to estimate the conservation status of the breed.[7]: 101
References
[edit]- ^ Georges Doutressoulle (1947). L'élevage en Afrique occidentale française (in French). Paris: Larose.
- ^ a b Breed data sheet: Fouta/Senegal. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed March 2016.
- ^ a b Magatte Ndiaye (1978). Contribution à l'étude de l'élevage du cheval au Sénégal (doctoral thesis, in French). Ecole Inter-Etats des Sciences et Médecine Vétérinaires de Dakar. Accessed March 2016.
- ^ [Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles] (2003). Rapport national sur l'état des ressources zoogénétiques au Sénégal[dead link] (in French); annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Accessed March 2016.
- ^ a b J.-P. Dehoux, A. Dieng, A. Buldgen (1996). Le cheval Mbayar dans la partie centrale du bassin arachidier sénégalais[dead link] (in French). Animal Genetic Resources Information 20: 35–54.
- ^ a b R. Larrat (1947). L'élevage du cheval au Sénégal (in French). Revue d'élevage et de médecine vétérinaire des pays tropicaux 1 (4): 257–265.
- ^ Rischkowsky, Barbara; Pilling, Dafydd, eds. (2007). "Annex: Breeds currently recorded in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources" (PDF). The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: FAO. ISBN 978-92-5-105762-9.
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