Foutanké
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| Country of origin | Senegal |
The Foutanké or Fouta is a Senegalese breed or type of light horse.[2] It results from the cross-breeding of stallions of the Fleuve breed with M'Bayar mares;[3]: 442 its conformation is similar to that of the Fleuve.[4]: 15 It is one of the four recognised Senegalese horse breeds – the others being the M'Bayar, the Fleuve and the M'Par[5]: 23 – and is highly valued for horse-racing.[6]: 38
History
The origins of the horse in Senegal are not documented.[7]: 261 In 1996, Senegal had a horse population of about 400000 head, the largest of any West African country.[6]: 36 This was a substantial increase from the 216000 reported in 1978,[4]: 10 and a much greater increase from the population after the Second World War, estimated at barely 30000.[7]: 260 Population numbers for the Foutanké are not reported.[2][8] In 2007 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations did not have data from which to estimate the conservation status of the breed.[9]: 101
.References
- ^ Georges Doutressoulle (1947). L'élevage en Afrique occidentale française (in French). Paris: Larose.
- ^ a b Breed data sheet: Fouta / Senegal (Horse). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2025.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Magatte Ndiaye (1978). Contribution à l'étude de l'élevage du cheval au Sénégal (doctoral thesis, in French). Ecole Inter-Etats des Sciences et Médecine Vétérinaires de Dakar. Archived 4 March 2016.
- ^ [Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles] (2003). Rapport national sur l'état des ressources zoogénétiques au Sénégal (in French); 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 1 November 2019.
- ^ a b J.-P. Dehoux, A. Dieng, A. Buldgen (1996). Le cheval Mbayar dans la partie centrale du bassin arachidier sénégalais (in French). Animal Genetic Resources Information. 20: 35–54. Archived 31 August 2025.
- ^ a b René Larrat (1947). L'élevage du cheval au Sénégal (in French). Revue d'élevage et de médecine vétérinaire des pays tropicaux. 1 (4): 257–265. doi:10.19182/remvt.6780.
- ^ Breed data sheet: Foutanké / Senegal (Horse). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2025.
- ^ 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.