Caracterización zoométrica de una manada de caballos criollos parameros de la parroquia Chorocopte del cantón Cañar

Abstract

The characterization of 48 moorland criollo horses, mares, colts and fillies was made in the Parish of Chorocopte, Canton Cañar, of which the zoometric measures, zoometric indexes , phanaeroptical variables were examined, the study took place over a period of 120 days whose data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Reporting in male equines and coalts a wither height, head length, body length, bicostal diameter, croup height , cephalic and thoracic index, of 137.02 and 131,74 cm; 54,44 and 43,16 cm; 142,94 and 134,9 cm; 39,28 and 33,22 cm; 137,88 and 133,14 cm; 36,19 and 39,24 cm; 59,32 and 53,21 respectively. In mares and fillies a wither height, head length, body length,croup length, croup width , thoracic index of 128,28 and 124,62 cm; 54,46 and 49,58 cm; 137,41 and 134,59 cm; 41,9 and 41,78 cm; 46,85 and 40,99 cm; 57,2 and 70,36; respectively. The color of the coat that prevails is the gray (46%); the cephalic profile is rectilinear (78 %), giving a slenderness to the animals, the lumbar back profile shows that 75% of animals did not show abnormalities in their backbone; the ventral profile stands out with 78% a normal and not bulging belly and pigmentation was 74% of hooves black; therefore, it is determined that the moorland horse for its features demonstrates its importance in the area for its use at work.