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Shire horse
Equus caballus
A breed of Horse, from England
Breed of draught horse.
- Family
- Equidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Draught work
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Height (female)
- over 159 cmBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- over 159 cmBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- Black, buckskin, gray, seal brownWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Colours
- Bay, black, greyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- FAO risk status
- EndangeredWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- UK (Defra) risk status
- At risk in the UKDefra native breeds list, 2026 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 242 (2019)Wikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 58 breeding females, 21 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
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- Name
- Shire horse
- Slug
- shire-horse
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Equidae
- Genus
- Equus
- Species
- caballus
- Cultivar
- Shire horse
- Wikidata QID
- Q40728
- Origin country
- England
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52