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4 unusual facts about Percheron


Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Deckard owns a malfunctioning synthetic black-faced Suffolk ewe being unable to afford an organic animal, while neighbor Barbour owns a real and pregnant Percheron mare.

Heihe horse

By 1940, there were sixteen stallions at this stud farm, among them two Anglo-Arabians and four Anglo-Norman, and others were crosses from Anglo-Norman and Percheron.

Old Cowtown Museum

The museum also contains a number of live animals, such as Percheron horses, a Longhorn steer and chickens.

Perche

Stock-raising and dairy-farming are flourishing in the Perche, which is famous for the production of a breed of large and powerful horses, called Percherons.


Achille Rémy Percheron

Achille Rémy Percheron ( 25 January 1797 Paris - 1869) was a French entomologist.

Hippolyte Louis Gory

Another well-known magistral work is the Monographie des Cétoines et genres voisins, published with Percheron.

Spanish-Norman horse

The Percheron breed originated in France, taking its name from the former Perche province.


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