Reports that Facebook has started enforcing a long-standing but often ignored ban on selling animals through the social media site has some B.C. livestock owners concerned.

Small farms, hobbyists and horse rescues sometimes use Facebook groups to connect with other livestock owners to buy, sell and trade animals, said Cat Wood, the administrator of a group for B.C. backyard poultry growers.

“It’s (useful for) connecting with farms in other parts of the country to diversify the gene pool of any type of livestock,” she explained. “Small rabbit breeders on the east coast connecting with similar folks on the west coast, goats, cattle, swine, poultry, horses — don’t even get me started on how bad it will be for finding new homes for retiring racehorses.”

Wood has started directing the almost 3,500 members of her poultry group to use a website to post their classified ads, but the response has been mixed.

“It’s been very frustrating,” she said, adding a website can be more difficult to use and doesn’t offer the same visibility as a Facebook post.

It’s not the first time Facebook has cracked down on the sale of the items listed in its commerce policy, which in addition to banning animal sales also forbids selling alcohol, drugs, and guns.

In early 2016, the social media giant tightened restrictions on private gun sales at the urging of government officials. The animal ban is believed to be aimed at stopping unregulated breeders and puppy mills.

Dozens of farmers and rescues across the Internet are reporting their posts have been deleted by Facebook. The manager of several Canadian horse sales groups told horse magazine Heels Down she had an ad pulled. When she called to ask why she was directed to the commerce policy.

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This page is a list of horse and pony breeds, and also includes terms for types of horse that are not breeds but are commonly mistaken for breeds. While there is no scientifically accepted definition of the term "breed",[1] a breed is defined generally as having distinct true-breeding characteristics over a number of generations. Its members may be called "purebred". In most cases, bloodlines of horse breeds are recorded with a breed registry. The concept is somewhat flexible in horses, as open stud books are created for developing horse breeds that are not yet fully true-breeding.

Registries also are considered the authority as to whether a given breed is listed as a "horse" or a "pony". There are also a number of "color breed", sport horse, and gaited horse registries for horses with various phenotypes or other traits, which admit any animal fitting a given set of physical characteristics, even if there is little or no evidence of the trait being a true-breeding characteristic. Other recording entities or specialty organizations may recognize horses from multiple breeds, thus, for the purposes of this article, such animals are classified as a "type" rather than a "breed".

The breeds and types listed here are those that already have a Wikipedia article. For a more extensive list, see the List of all horse breeds in DAD-IS.

For additional information, see horse breed, horse breeding, and the individual articles listed below. Additional articles may be listed under Category:Horse breeds and Category:Types of horse.

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