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Where does the Chincoteague Pony come from?
Chincoteague ponies are found in a little island on the side of Virginnia. Chincoteague Ponies are actually found on the small island off the east side of Virginia and Maryland. The island's name is Assateague, so it's ironic that the ponies are called Chincoteague ponies instead of Assateague ponies.
How is Chincoteague island different from assateague island?
chincoteague is the populated yet smaller island while assateague is home to the ponies and much much bigger.
What animal runs wild on Assateague Island on Maryland's coast?
Chincoteague ponies
Why are the wild ponies on assateague island so small?
Well they are small because they are ponies and they live on a small island. If they were much bigger the island would not beable to support a large number of ponies.
What novel idea did the people of Chincoteague have for controlling the number of wild horses?
In 1925, they held the first annual roundup of the Assateague (Chincoteague) ponies. This is called the Chincoteague pony swim. During this, they swim a herd of the ponies across the Assateague Channel (inbetween Assateague Island and Chincoteague Island). When they reach the shore of Chincoteague, the ponies are put in pens. Then, before they swim them back to Assateague Island, they hold an auction to sell some of the ponies. This helps to decrease the population of the wild ponies. The money that they raise from these auctions helps to fund the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Department, whose firemen are the ones who round up and swim the ponies across the channel.
Whet breed of horse are the Assateague wild ponies?
Chincotegue Ponies.
Is it true that chincoteague ponies live on chincoteague an assateague island?
They live on Assateague Island, and every year they are rounded up, made to swim across the channel over to Chincoteague island, where some are auctioned in order to maintain the number of horses on the island. the rest are released back onto Assateague to live in the wild for another year.
When was Assateague Island National Seashore created?
Assateague Island National Seashore was created in 1965.
How did the chincoteague pony evolve?
there are two stories: (1) a spanish galleon crashed in a storm off the coast of chincoteague and the ponies that were aboard swam to shore and (2) the early settlers of assateague let their ponies graze there and after years and years there were reports of wild "beach ponies" on the island. When the settlers moved to chincoteague, the wild ponies stayed. And those were the ancestors of today's chincoteague ponies.
Where is the Assateague Island located?
The Assateague Island is located in Delvara, Maryland, America. It is 37 miles long and is a barrier island. It is near Ocean City and near Chincoteague Island.
Can you get married at Assateague Island MD?
Yes.
How did pony's first get to assateague island?
Legend has it that a Spanish ship carrying horses crashed close to shore. The horses that survived then swam to Assateague island. You can read about this legend in "Misty of Chincoteague." It wasn't just a shipwreck, when they looked into the ponies ancestors they found many different kinds of horses so in the beginning the researchers thought that farmers took horses to Assateague to avoid taxes on the horses. It was a natural corral. Over time they adapted to the climate and other horses ended up on the island, they may have come from a ship or swam from mainland. There are hundreds of stories how the ponies got there but they are there and thriving.
