Poney du Logone

The Poney du Logone is a breed of small horse or pony from the area of the Logone River in Chad and Cameroon, in west central Africa. It is particularly associated with the Musey or people of that region, and may also be known as the Poney Musey or Poney Mousseye.

History

There are many descriptions of the small horses of the Marba-Musey people of the flood-plain of the middle reaches of the Logone River in south-western Chad and northern Cameroon; among them are those of Dixon Denham in 1826 and Gustav Nachtigal in 1880. Horse-breeding in the area remained relatively unchanged until the 1980s; in 1985 the horse population there was estimated at head.

In 2007 the Poney du Logone population in Chad was listed as "not at risk" by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; No population data has been reported to DAD-IS since 2006, when a total of head was reported for the year 1987; in 2025 the conservation status of the breed in Chad was unknown. In Cameroon the breed is considered a relic of the past, and to be at risk of extinction.

Characteristics

The head of the Poney du Logone is not heavy, as is sometimes reported, but is well proportioned, with a slightly convex profile and wide nostrils. The principal coat colour is bay, followed by bay roan, chestnut and chestnut roan. The average height at the withers is for mares and for stallions and geldings; average body weight is of the order of .

The Poney du Logone is one of two horse breeds reported to show tolerance of – or resistance to – tsetse-borne trypanosomosis, or "sleeping sickness". The other horse breed reported to be tolerant or resistant is the Bandiagara of Mali and Niger.

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Beate Scherf, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2015). The Second Report on 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. . Archived 24 March 2016.

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. .

[Comite Consultatif National Du Cameroun] (2003). Rapport national sur les ressources zoo génétiques des animaux d'élevage du Cameroun (in French); annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. . Archived 19 September 2020.

[Laboratoire de Recherches Vétérinaires et Zootechniques de Farcha, Ministère de l'Elevage] (2003). Rapport National sur les Ressources Zoogénétiques du Tchad (in French); annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. . Archived 17 May 2018.

Christian Seignobos (1995). Les poneys du Logone à l'Adamawa, du XVIIème siècle à nos jours (in French); in: Gigi Pezzoli (editor) (1995). Cavalieri dell'Africa: storia, iconografia, simbolismo = Cavaliers d'Afrique: histoire, iconographie, symbolisme = Horsemen of Africa: history, iconography, symbolism: atti del Ciclo di incontri organizzato dal Centro studi archeologia africana di Milano, febbraio-giugno 1994. Milano: Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, pages 233-253.

Breed data sheet: Poney du Logone / Chad (Horse). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed August 2025.

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