List of Swiss horse breeds

This is a list of the Swiss breeds of horse,^[1] with various names used for them in that country:

International name	French	German	Italian	Notes
	Ajoie			extinct, merged into the Swiss Warmblood in the 1970s^[2]^: 298
		Burgdorfer		coldblood, from cross-breeding of Jura and Ardennes, became extinct in the twentieth century^[3]^[4]
		Einsiedler Einsiedeln	Cavallo della Madonna	warmblood, considered extinct since the mid-twentieth century;^[3] contributed to the development of the Swiss Warmblood, which is sometimes known as the New Einsiedeln;^[5] a small number remain^[6]^: 202
		Entlebucher		light coldblood, became extinct in the twentieth century^[3]
Erlenbach		Erlenbacher		derived from Danish mares and Mecklenburger stallions, original form lost by the mid-eighteenth century;^[7]^: 506 warmblood, became extinct in the twentieth century, merged into the Swiss Warmblood^[2]^: 300^[3]^[5]
	Franches-Montagnes Franc-Montagnard Cheval du Jura Jura^[2]^: 298	Freiberger
	Ormont			extinct^[5]
		Schwyz		extinct^[5]
Swiss Halfblood				extinct, merged into the Swiss Warmblood in the mid-twentieth century^[7]^: 506
Swiss Warmblood Swiss Saddle Horse	Demi-Sang CH Demi-sang Suisse	Schweizer Warmblut CH-Warmblut Neue Einsiedler	Cavallo della Svizzera	formed in the early 1970s through merger of the Ajoie, Einsiedler and Erlenbach local breeds and the Swiss Halfblood;^[2]^: 300^[7]^: 506 sometimes known as 'Neue Einsiedeln'.^[7]^: 506

Other extinct breeds[edit]

ProSpecieRara lists several other extinct Swiss breeds of horse:^[8]

^ Breed data sheet: Switzerland / Horse. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed April 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d [Monitoring Institute for Rare Breeds and Seeds in Europe] (2003). Agricultural Genetic Resources in the Alps; Landwirtschaftliche Genressourcen der Alpen; Ressources génétiques agricoles des Alpes; Risorse genetiche agricole delle Alpi; Kmetijski genetski viri v Alpha. Zürich: Bristol-Stiftung; Bern, Stuttgart, Wien: Haupt. ISBN 3258066698. Archived 24 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Das Original Freiberger Pferd (in German). Interessengemeinschaft zur Erhaltung des Original Freiberger Pferdes. Archived 12 August 2022.
^ Breed data sheet: Burgdorfer / Switzerland (Horse). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed April 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Historique (in French). Avenches: Fédération Suisse du Franches-Montagnes. Archived 29 January 2022.
^ Élise Rousseau, Yann Le Bris, Teresa Lavender Fagan (2017). Horses of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691167206.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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.
^ [s.n.] (2016). Nutztierrassen und -schläge der Schweiz (in German). Basel: ProSpecieRara Schweiz. Archived 7 December 2016.

v t e Horse breeds of Switzerland
Contemporary	Freiberger Swiss Warmblood
Extinct or historic breed	Ajoie^† Burgdorfer^† Einsiedler^† Entlebucher^† Erlenbacher^† Ormont^† Schwyz^† Swiss Halfblood^†
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