Hutsul a horse, or just Huculak is a unique breed, well adapted to heavy mountain intelligences’. These horses are not tall, they stink of the same color, they have a black mane and tail, and they have black panchohs and a black brown ridge. So color, shape of head, I saves tulubu CIR tvarin dozvolyayut of prepustiti scho h ancestors Buli tarpani.
Gutsulikov Highlanders they were used for riding and as draft animals. Horses of this breed are distinguished by great endurance, calm disposition and caution-qualities that are extremely necessary in the mountains. They remember the road well and find their own Ford through the rivers. Hutsul and his horse were inseparable, as was the Arab and his steed.
Inside XIX century Hutsul horses were not specially bred. The first state stable, where horses were bred for cavalry purposes, was organized in 1856 in Lushchini – on the South-Eastern outskirts of the Hutsul region. This plant still works and is subordinate to the Ministry of forestry of Romania.
At the beginning of the XX century Hutsul breeding centers in Ukrainian Carpathian there were Kosovo and Zhabye (today-the village of Verkhovyna in Ivano-Frankivsk region).
Development of the breed prevented First world war – in those days, the number of horses decreased by five times. After the Second world war, Hutsuls were raised mainly in Poland, where today there is the largest number of these animals. At the same time, in the USSR, it was forbidden to keep horses on the farm, unlike cattle, and therefore horses of this breed could be counted on the fingers.
Today, most of the Hutsuls were received by residents of Kosovo And Rakhovsky district Зkarpatsko region as a gift from an international charity Fund “heifer”. With the return of the Hutsuls to Transcarpathia began the development of equestrian tourism’s. Today you can ride horses in the Preluka tract and Vojvodina на PureCinema, and in the villages Solochin Svalyavsky and Kvass of rakhovsky districts.
