Baixadeiro

Baixadeiro
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): not listed: 13 
  • DAD-IS (2026): unknown          
Country of originBrazil
DistributionMaranhão, Nordeste
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    250 kg
  • Female:
    245 kg
Height
  • Male:
    128 cm
  • Female:
    123 cm

The Baixadeiro is a Brazilian breed of small horse native to the wetlands of the Baixada Maranhense, in the state of Maranhão, in the Nordeste region of north-eastern Brazil; the name of the breed derives from that of the wetland area. It was identified in 2005, and a conservation nucleus was established in the municipio of Pinheiro.: 71  By 2014 the Baixadeiro was among the thirteen horse breeds recognised as Brazilian by the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, the national organisation for agricultural research.: 27 

It is closely related to the Pantaneiro of the Pantanal wetlands of western Brazil, but is smaller.: 441 

Characteristics

The Baixadeiro is a small horse. Average heights at the withers are variously given as 123 cm for mares and 128 cm for males; or as 142 cm.: 441 

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Breed data sheet: Baixadeiro / Brazil (Horse). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed June 2026.
  3. ↑ Marcos de Oliveira (November 2006). Bem brasileiros: Embrapa intensifica estudos com raças surgidas no país que formam um rico patrimônio genético (in Portuguese). Pesquisa FAPESP. São Paulo: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo. (129): 66–71. English translation.
  4. ↑ Concepta McManus, Thais C. Hermuche, Allan G. Maranhão, Samuel R. Paiva (June 2014). Production Environment Descriptors for Brazilian Domestic Animal Breeds (report submitted to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). Brasilia: Universidade de Brasília; Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia. Archived 13 November 2024.
  5. 1 2 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.

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