Curly Stockhorse Preservation Mission:

Mission Statement: The Preservation Project is an informal initiative to spread awareness of the decline in numbers of a truly wonderful breed / bloodline of horse. The Preservation Project(s) will evolve and change as certain projects goals develop or are met. Participation is enthusiastically welcomed on any level. We do everything we can to encourage help the horses without costing us much money. Money is tight, and we try to barter and get by with trades when and where possible, and still help preserve endangered horses.

International Heritage Horse Association Mission & Goals:

The IHHA registers any endangered breeds & bloodlines of horses, but that is just a service to owners by request, not its reason for existence. Its mission is actually unification. IHHA stands with the preservation project volunteers--to support and encourage the eventual merger and union of all Curly Horse registries, and in the meantime to encourage breeding of separate curly breeds or bloodlines, and preserve them from extinction due to crossbreeding. To promote possible future unification, IHHA is working to provide an all-registry online pedigree database, which will be free to the public, and available to all registries, scheduled for 2024. If IHHA succeeds in that project, the goal is for that member platform to be more useful and reliable than curlyhorses.info. Time will tell!

Curly Stockhorse Preservation Goals:

• Preserve critically endangered bloodlines of curly stockhorses:
  • KRT25 rare Bad Warrior bloodline of ranch horses
  • -xxxxx- novel Spanish Sulphur curly coated horses
  • -xxxxx- novel Colonial Spanish curly coated horses
  • KRT25 wild BLM Checkerboard Square curly horses
  • KRT25 old line Lp Curly Horses
  • KRT25 Fredell curly horses
  • -xxxxx- Cook curly horses
  • KRT25 Canadian (Cypress) curly horses
  • KRT25 Working Ranch Morab curly horses (pure Damele line)
  • KRT25 wild BLM Owyhee Desert curly horses
  • KRT25 Homestead type curly horses (drafters)
  • -xxxxx- South American Curly Criollos
    
    
• Preservation Goals through education:
  • halt crossing of diverse types & lines
  • increase quality of heritage and diverse types & lines
  • increase numbers of rare bloodlines
  • get them out in public, the right kind of horses doing the right things
  • incentivize both preserving old lines AND breeding better horses
  • raise public awareness about rare curly stockhorses
    • Support all existing registries to work Publish latest research on Horse TV.
    • Distribute information to Educators, Scientists, Conservancies, Allergy Doctors
    • Educate about history, bloodlines, conformation, type, training, use

Curly Stockhorse Preservation Project 2014 last updated November 2023 Donna Grace heritage.horse.assn@gmail.com