Bhutia Horse
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The Bhutia Horse is a breed of small mountain horse distributed in Sikkim and the district of Darjeeling in northern India, in Bhutan and in Nepal.[4]: 444 [2][5] It has some similarity to Mongolian and Tibetan breeds.[6]: 201 The usual coat colours are bay and grey.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to: The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Breed data sheet: Bhotia Pony / India (Horse). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed May 2025.
- ^ Valerie Porter (editor), Ian Lauder Mason (2002). Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and Varieties, fifth edition. Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 085199430X.
- ^ a b Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
- ^ a b Equines in India: Horses. Indian Council of Agricultural Research: National Research Centre on Equines. Accessed June 2015.
- ^ Elwyn Hartley Edwards (1994). The Encyclopedia of the Horse. London; New York; Stuttgart; Moscow: Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 0751301159.