When it comes to equine cattle, it refers to a group of animals that is made up mostly of horses, however it could also be made up of donkeys, mares and mules. Horses are mammals belonging to the Equidae family; In other words, it is the same family where the African wild ass comes from the Sahara, ancestor of a well-known domestic ass, classified in this species. This family is also joined by the zebras, native to Africa and the wild ass from Asia, whose subspecies is the onager. All similarity that the horse keeps with the ass is that great capacity for the production of hydrogenation.
These types of cattle are generally not used as food because it is not very common to eat their meat; either because of its flavor or texture that most people don't like; so they are used mostly for cargo or transport activities. Furthermore, in certain cases their skin and fur are used to make different products for human use.
Although nowadays it is not common to eat horse meat, in ancient times it meant a great nutritional importance for the human being since it was one of the animals that was hunted the most in the era of primitive man; But it was from its domestication that a close bond was established between this animal and man, which was later used as transport, for war or pulling activities.
The horses, according to their breed, are classified into: improved breed, among them is the English Thoroughbred horse, the Arabian horse, the Spanish, the Berber and the Anglo-Arab; on the other hand, there are the non-improved ones, which include those horses with low economic profitability such as the traction horse.
