Sentence examples for draft breed from inspiring English sources

Before mechanization revolutionized farming, Percherons were widespread and influenced American agriculture more than any other draft breed.

Kangayam cattle were established as an important draft breed in south India.

The head is light for a draft breed, with a straight or slightly convex profile, and it is set on a short, broad and muscular neck.

The Jutland strongly resembles the Schleswig, another heavy draft breed with similar origins that was influenced by Oppenheim LXII and his descendants.

In the 19th century, the Cleveland Bay was crossed with French and Belgian draft horses to create the Vladimir Heavy Draft, a Russian breed developed to fill that country's need for a heavy draft breed.

The extra weight and size was desired to turn the breed into a very heavy draft breed, after their role as an artillery horse had diminished through the advent of mechanization, as well as a desire for a meat animal.

Although population numbers continued to decline until 1995, the physical characteristics of the breed remained much the same, not growing heavier and slower as many of the French draft breeds did due to breeding for the production of meat.

In the 1990s, the French government reversed its position on breeding for meat, and began promoting draft breeds for leisure pursuits.

In the early 20th century, Spanish horse breeding began to focus on other breeds, particularly draft breeds, Arabians, Thoroughbreds and crosses between these breeds, as well as crosses between these breeds and the Andalusian.

A continued breeding of mules caused the breed to decline faster than other draft breeds, as purebred horses were not bred as often.

Descended from the medieval "great horse," the Suffolk is an old breed that has probably had less crossing with other lines than most draft breeds.