Somalis and Horses

[enda_el]

Beautiful

 

[Adeersyber]

Illustrations like these are useless. Many ahistoric things are added to them. Illustrations are useful when its a drawn by an explorer who saw something as a firsthand account and uses it to explain what hes seeing. These paintings are simply reliefs which draws the reader in and gives them a break from boring blocks of text. Look at this example of how nonsensical they can get:
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The sultan of Geledis stirrups could have been native or could have been purchased from others. Regardless it was not common.

those are beja

 

[IKHALIIL]

View attachment 315394They did a study on the horse of ethiopia and the only ones with good confirmation were either Oromo or the Galbeed breed. Habashis ruined their horses for some reason. Theyre just bigger donkeys to them View attachment 315390
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Terrible morphology on average

The first horse looks like this

 

[enda_el]

those are beja

Yea... that was my point

 

[Taariikh88]

Cadaan hunter liking his Somali pony quite a bit. First hand experience View attachment 314522

Do you have that book in PDF bro?

 

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[محمود فارح]

It is small in size compared to the Arabian horse, why exactly? ?

 

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It is small in size compared to the Arabian horse, why exactly? ?

You are right, pure bred Arabian horses are larger and more athletic. Arabian horses are next level breeds MashaAllah.

 

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[datesfrompuntland]

Please feel free to contribute. I start of with discussing the feral horses in Kundudo, its the oldest population of feral horses in Africa

http://www.theequinest.com/breeds/kundudo/

Its called the Kundudo horse. Kundudo is ancient Hobat the lands behind Gursum

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They were used in Gragns army

The rock paintings at lascanod suggest 4000ys

 

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The rock paintings at lascanod suggest 4000ys

Feral horses are descended from domestic horses that strayed, escaped, or were deliberately released into the wild and remained to survive and reproduce there.

 

[ZBR]

The Borena horse seems quite interesting to me

 

[enda_el]

It is small in size compared to the Arabian horse, why exactly? ?

Different genetics

 

[enda_el]

Interesting how somalis ride horses seated more forward

 

[محمود فارح]

Different genetics

What are its advantages? I'm not a fan of it in theory. but I think our ancestors had a reason to ride it

 

[daljirkadahsoon]

What are its advantages? I'm not a fan of it in theory. but I think our ancestors had a reason to ride it

Might be smaller lakiin it is an absolute beast. Can survive the toughest conditions and withstand hunger and lack of water for longer period

 

[محمود فارح]

Might be smaller lakiin it is an absolute beast. Can survive the toughest conditions and withstand hunger and lack of water for longer period

Wow, here was a reason why ancient Arab poets praised Somali horses, but these are crazy characteristics