The most unique horse I ever met, was a Knabstrupper (Danish bred of spotted horse) and Arabian mix. She appeared white except for when she got wet and you could see that her skin was leopard spotted. It was adorable.

@GrannySweets

7 ай бұрын

You described it so beautifully that I hunger to see such a horse!🥰 Thank you 🤗

@kathleenstoin671

6 ай бұрын

Sounds gorgeous!

@carolday3381

4 ай бұрын

Its happened because she was born leaopard spotted but had the grey gene which is dominant and she greyed out as she grew. Her skin kept the markings but her hair greyed out. That’s why the knabstrupper breed book doesn’t allow outcrosses with horses who have grey genes in a certain number of generations back to be registrable within the breed book. I had my one mare approved for breeding within their book TB/Hano breeding and because she has birdcather spots grease marks and flaxen chestnut they researched her family line for i think it was five months after her live inspection before they approved her. Now another reason for markings like that is it could be her skin was melanated while the top hairs grew grey. I saw a pinto horse who had that. He was black and white, his head patches and part of the neck patches were black and white respectively but then the rest of his body it was large black patches with a cream film overtop because his black skin was shining through his somewhat opaque white hairs. That was unique because he was dry and you could see that. I think he might have had a cream gene maybe expressing. I forget what the term is called when a different spot shows up. Te condition when say a chestnut horse has a large grey, palomino or black swipe on the shoulder. DNA tests dont show paint genetics its an anomaly with a special name. Cant remember darn it. Regardless sin the instance of the mare whose spots could be seen when wet only its a case of she had the markings at birth but greyed out because grey is a dominant colour genetic.

The thing I always found interesting about horse colors was the fact there are only two color genes for them, red and agouti (black) there are just LOTS of modifiers like cream, dun, gray, champagne, silver, etc. that change the shades of the underlying colors

@swordwhale1

6 ай бұрын

red and black pigments, and agouti to tell the black wheere to go... and all the modifiers... the fun thing is trying to figure out phenotype (what it looks like) vs genotype (DNA) sometimes you need a test I know a tested palomino who, at times, has appeared bay, dun, and even black...

@109367

6 ай бұрын

@@swordwhale1 I saw some images of a bay Arabian once with sooty that presented like dun, it was really cool, had a dorsal stripe and leg barring

@swordwhale1

6 ай бұрын

@@109367 nd1 (non dun 1) sometimes has dilutions, and primitive markings! My bay Anglo-Arab was not sooty, rather "bright blood bay" but he did have a slight dorsal stripe.

Aww Dallas has a little heart on him 5:40 😂❤

Thanks for showing us the different horses and their colors. I knew most of it, but some of the variations were new to me. Thanks so much for taking care of the horses!

Thank you so much! This really helps me with trying to paint horses correctly.

It can all be so confusing at first, but this is a good foundation video. I think a Paint has commonality with the Quarter horse. We should get a better name for a flea- bitten grey 😂.

Enjoyed you video. To be a bit more accurate, your Appaloosa is a "leopard" Appaloosa. The other type typically has a darker body wit a lighter/white 'blanket ' across the rear or sometimes from behind the whithers, with dark spots. This would be referred to as a "Blanket" Appaloosa.

@EquineAdvocates

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the information!

@voiceofreason7856

6 ай бұрын

There are actually six different coat patterns recognised in the Appaloosa breed, and some of those patterns will ( what I call ) 'cross over' or appear on the same horse, at the same time ! I call them 'combo colours' - not sure what the Appaloosa Club calls them....!!! Here are the six different, basic, recognised coat patterns : 1) leopard - white base coat with coloured spots, overall. The spots can be any base coat colour. 2) snowflake - any of the base coat colours, but with white spots overall. A black coated, snowflake marked horse, will look like a starry night - very pretty. :) 3) plain white blanket, with any base colour - which can be just over the back and hips, or can extend further forward 4) spotted blanket - same as plain white blanket description, but with spots on the blanket 5)frosted - small white markings over the rump and hip area - rest of horse normally a solid, base coat colour 6) roan - any base colour coat with white hair dispersed into it, overall. You know it's an Appaloosa roan as opposed to 'just a roan horse' by the 'varnish markings' ( plain dark patches of hair with no white in it ) over the gaskins, nasal bones, elbows, knees, etc. Then there's #7 : 7) 'plain' coloured horse - any base coat colour - that was neither born with a coat pattern, or developed one after a few years. These horses must have two registered Appaloosa parents to be registered - last I heard, anyhow. Any Appaloosa can also have various white leg and /or face markings like socks, stars, blazes, snips, etc. They also need to have one or more of the 'Appaloosa traits' like parti- coloured skin on the muzzle, genitalia, etc., white scelera in the eye ( so it looks like a human eye), striped hooves even at the 'end' of a solid coloured leg. I once had a beautiful Appaloosa mare with a spotted blanket that stretched nearly to her shoulder, was strawberry roan over the rest of her body, and spots overall, on the roan bits. She was a 'combo coat' patterned horse for sure ! My first Appaloosa was a solid chestnut, with one white spot on her left shoulder - the size of a fifty cent piece - and she never 'coloured out', but both her parents were registered , so she was too - so, there you are ! Appaloosas - 'coloured', or not, are an amazing breed. :)

Friesians are my favorite breed of horse, however dun is my favorite shade. I have loved horses all of my life.

@cathynewyork7918

6 ай бұрын

I love Friesians also. Do you watch "Freisian horses" KZread channel? Based on a Freisian farm in The Netherlands.

Thank you so much, Michele! I now know that the beloved Sam of my childhood was a sorrel. My pony, all mine, tho not quite as beloved (what a stinker!) was a dark bay. Do you s'pose they know just how noble they are? How majestic they are? I even miss the smell of horses. Some people like skiing. Some like motorcycles. Give me a horse.

@wendybutler1681

6 ай бұрын

It was a demonic Palomino mare that tried to rearrange my face with her shod hoof but caught me with her ankle instead. She had stalked every creature on the farm. 11 yo me was the one she finally caught. I was minding the open gate as the men carried logs into the pasture. The other horses all came up to say hi. She came to hurt somebody. She was gone the next morning. Her owners had trouble finding housing for her because she had foaled too young and it made her mean. If they hadn't picked her up she would have been destroyed at noon. I had some significant road rash on the boney parts of my face and a concussion but I was ok. Never trusted the back end of a horse I didn't know after that. Seeing me flip thru the air after the sickening sound of contact shook the adults up. The curse words they were mumbling as they got me in the house assured me that Princess would no longer be terrorizing humans or horses again. Yup, her name was Princess and she was breathtakingly beautiful.

@EquineAdvocates

6 ай бұрын

Hi Wendy - I’m so sorry that happened to you and I’m glad they found a home for her. However, I’m glad you enjoyed our video! Our horses always live in our hearts. I feel the same way you do! I have always loved horses and I could never live a life apart from them forever. Some people may not agree but the horse smell is the best! I don’t need anything else, just a horse to love! I don’t know if they know how majestic they are, but they are majestic and noble indeed. Thank you for your comment! - Michele

My horse is a bay. When he’s all brushed out and in the sunlight he’s a beautiful deep copper.

I have seen Appaloosa horses in a brown/bay coat with a white spotted blanket on their rump.

@cathynewyork7918

6 ай бұрын

That is the most common type of Appaloosa. She should have shown a photo of this type of Appaloosa to illustrate a typical Appaloosa.

Thank you for the refresher course!!

Nice post, thank you. In Surrey, England, where I grew up in the 50's the colours you call a pinto was called a piebald: white with brown or black. Three colours and it was a skewbald, brown, white and black. Both were considered gypsy's horses. None the worse for that, but just the type gypsies preferred and bred.

I searched for how to color a horse I end with your video, I rely enjoy it thanks all information you,ve mentioned 😀

This is an excellent video! Very informative. All the horses seem like sweeties!

I love all horses. All horses are beautiful, but i like the black, white, gray, buckskin, palomino, dark bay, chestnut, and cremello horses the most

Thanking you for your information about my thought of question

Thanks for the video explaining the colour variations. I will now look at horses completely differently than in the past.😊

Perhaps the most unique horse I saw was a "white" mare who was grey, leopard (Appy), and pinto. You could see where the skin was pink under the pure white pinto markings, you could see the white sclera in the eye and the striped hooves and the speckled skin under the LP parts, and her owner said she'd gotten lighter as she aged (grey).

I had a blue-eyed, Creamello mare (very pale Palomino) who looked white, with pink skin. In the gold rays of a setting sun, one could see a tinge of gold and whiter Appaloosa spots. Her dam was a buckskin Appaloosa. Her fence-hopper sire was reputed to be an Arabian palomino, but I suspect he was 1/2-3/4 Arab, because palomino is not an Arab color. My mare had the thick, Arab mane and tail, a slightly dished face, and small, expressive ears. She had a long, Appaloosa back and broad, round hooves (good on sand). I bred her to a light chestnut Morgan and got the best of both sire and dam characteristics in a gorgeous, brave, clever, strong Palomino colt. Horse colors are fascinating!

@cathynewyork7918

6 ай бұрын

It's so sad how you and so many others contribute to "diluting" purebred horse breeds by cross-breeding like this. Same thing with dog people. Eventually we won't have any purebred horses or dogs anymore - every animal will be an odd mixture, nothing purebred.

For the pinto I’d add the different names for it. Some call them paints, we call them piebald where I’m from.

Great video! I’ve always been skeptical of videos on color after I started learning genetics because generally their is a lot of misinformation on horse colors. This was great! I will say that your roan is actually not a roan at all. She is a varnish. Sometimes this is called a varnish Appaloosa or varnish roan, which is where I think the confusion here is coming from. Varnish has nothing to do with roan at all; it is a type of Appaloosa pattern caused by the leopard gene. You can tell that she is a varnish and not a roan because she has mottled (speckled or freckled) skin and white scleras (whites of the eyes show). Also note that her coat does not smoothly incorporate all of the white hairs throughout her body as a true roan would; she has patches where you can see the color through the white in random areas on her body. One more common varnish trait she shows is that patch of white on her face. This is not a white marking like a blaze or star, it is caused by the leopard gene. Varnish horses often have concentrated patches of white on their faces, unlike roans. While it’s not common for a roan to have white on their face, it does happen, but it shows up as ticking not concentrated patches. Hope this helps, loved the video!

@EquineAdvocates

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the information!

Thank you for making this, wow

Excellent video! I stay confused at my stable of the different colored horses!

Ben K Green wrote a wonderful book on horse color complete with illustrations and diagrams of the hair shaft and pigmentation

Thank you for this excellent video. I learned a lot. You have a nice presentation and pleasant demeanor.

@EquineAdvocates

7 ай бұрын

Thank you. We're so glad you enjoyed it!

Very interesting!

My horse Sonny is a dark bay with a white star beautiful Arabian I love him so nice

I love all sorts of horse colors, especially rare ones. I also like the variations of them like different variations of chestnut like sorrel - sorrel isn't it's own color, btw, it's a type of chestnut, like how lavender is a type of purple color - for example. Did you know that the color seal brown was thought to be a color on its own? In the later studies, it's been discovered that seal brown is part of the bay family. To those interested in horse color genetics, I highly encourage you to look up new information as possible, and maybe try to find books on updated horse colors.

Thank YOU!! awesome.

Met a horse one day. my soulmate for sure. Hope to see him on the other side one day. He was colored like caramel or maybe congnac. he was goldblonde from head to toe. Mane and tail got skincolor. I think in German it`s called "Goldfuchs" (gold fox). But do you say Goldfox or is it a chestnut? He was very special to me. always seaching for a model looks like him. :( Just VERY special! Hope you are feeling fine Dublin!

I learned today

I have been waiting for this video ever since I read My Friend Flicka when I was a little girl. This explains so much, thank you.

I like you and your channel. Compared to some of the horsey channels I've seen, you make it more about the horses. Thanks for sharing. You have a wonderful job! Best, Kaye

I had a Blood Bay, and just beautiful. I had an ancestor who lived in the time of the great race horse, Man O’ War, who painted some of the horses of the very rich, on commission. My grandmother told me the painting of Man O’ War showed him the color of a newly minted penny. I haven’t seen the painting but I think he might have been a Blood Bay (if back then horse colors type 4:46 had been as defined as what we have now and have explained. By the way, I see you as a living angel (you still have a body!) for your loving rescues and care of these lovely equines. God bless you, honey!😇😘Grammy Sue (PS: I haven’t googled to see what color type Man O’ War was. Do you know? Oops, I edited and now can’t scroll up and see my whole comment!

@SueLeigh-pr8vy

6 ай бұрын

I googled M O’ W and saw the actual painting my great Aunt painted. I’m so happy and excited I could fall down and twitch! (Uh oh-nowadays, my last four words are not PC, right??)

@EquineAdvocates

6 ай бұрын

Hello! Man O' War was a chestnut color, possibly a Sorrel. And thank you for your lovely words!

Paint is patches of any color on white, pinto is a black and white paint horse

The 2 wild horses we re ok.w/ the presenting lady,me 2. Subscribed.

Millie is a precious old gal. 🍎

Beautiful! Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you for this! Always find chestnut and sorrel confusing.

@ariellewilson730

6 ай бұрын

People think that chestnut and sorrels are the same. Others thought sorrel was its own color rather than a variation of a chestnut. It's always important that if you want to study equine colors, always look up recent studies and try to find books about breeds, types, and colors. I have three - two are horse breed guides, the other horse color genetics - but I need to get other ones because those three books say bay and seal brown are separate colors, when in truth, a seal brown is a variation of a bay. Ever heard of a black buckskin? It's a variation of a buckskin that can be mistaken for a black colored horse. It can also be mistaken for a smoky black colored horse.

To be fair, Pinto is usually a lazy descriptor for people not to interested in naming the different genes Tobiano, Overo, etc.. I find it better to actually include these names when descibing a horse, considering we do it with Appaloosas as well as they come in various unique pattern variants. Plus, if we go ahead and differentiate between Blood, Dark and Light bay, it's only fair to give that love to all White marks as well, they deserve it much more than basecoats tbh. X'D

Very clear and helpful! Thanks for this 😊

Good video. Learned a lot

Super vvideo! Keep up the good work!

I wish you had at least shown a photo of a Palomino, since they are so beautiful.

Arnold looks like a Sorrel to me😮 I guess it depends on the specific breed registries😅

@ariellewilson730

4 ай бұрын

Through further research - newest studies - including horse color myths from Simply Equine, all thanks to her for breaking down the horse colors, sorrel is a variation of a chestnut. Honestly, I believe Western and English disciplines should use chestnut, as well as their variations since every horse color has one. I don't get why Western riders, though not all of them, call chestnut horses sorrels, and not call them chestnuts.

I liked this video ..very interesting

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What are cow-like patterned coats called? White-black or white-brown. In my country (Chile) we call them "overo". Is that the same as pinto? We have folk songs that speak of overo horses.

@EquineAdvocates

Жыл бұрын

Hi! The white with color patterns are called Paint and Pinto primarily. The difference is that a Paint horse is a registered breed and must meet certain color and genetic criteria, while a Pinto is any horse breed with this color patterning. Overo and Pinto are similar, but Overo horses typically have white faces, but no white coloring on their backs. That's so cool about the folk songs!

@kymharris269

7 ай бұрын

In Australia they used to be known as piebald (black and white like a magpie bird) and skewbald (brown and white). Now they are called paint colour, and often are mostly a single colour with a few small spots/areas of something else.

@cathynewyork7918

6 ай бұрын

@@kymharris269 They were called piebald and skewbald in England also. Maybe you read the old novel "National Velvet" written in 1935 about a piebald horse who wins the Grand National steeplechase race. It was made into a movie starring Elizabeth Taylor and Micky Rooney, but the horse was no longer a piebald in the movie version.

Is speed and performance can be predicted by colour of the horses

@EquineAdvocates

10 күн бұрын

No, but breed can impact those characteristics.

can 2 similar horses have totally different colored babies?

@EquineAdvocates

5 ай бұрын

Yes, it depends on the genetics of both parents.

Mules?

Is there a difference between a Pinto and a Paint?

@EquineAdvocates

6 ай бұрын

Yes - Paint is a breed of horse, while Pinto is the name of a color pattern on any horse breed.

Hi hello! What is the difference between chestnut and sorrel? They look the same to me 😅

@EquineAdvocates

6 ай бұрын

They are similar and many do get the two confused! The difference is sorrel is a reddish coat color of any shade, light or dark, and most have the same color throughout their body, mane, and tail. Chestnut is darker than sorrel and can have hints of brown or even black in addition to the red coat.

@cathynewyork7918

6 ай бұрын

@@EquineAdvocates At the stable where I ride, a sorrel is what you called a flaxen chestnut - reddish brown with blonde mane and tail.

@ariellewilson730

6 ай бұрын

​@@EquineAdvocatesPeople think sorrel is its own color, when it's actually a variation of a chestnut. I rode a Quarter Horse during my horse back riding lessons who is not a sorrel but a chestnut because of his red coat and matching mane and tail. Did you know that a seal brown is a variation of a bay color? Ever heard of a black buckskin?

what is the difference between a Paint and a Pinto?

@EquineAdvocates

5 ай бұрын

Paint is a breed of horse, while Pinto is the name of a color pattern on any horse breed.

What about buckskins?

@cathynewyork7918

6 ай бұрын

She also didn't mention Palomino.

How about Buckskin, Palomino, . . . .

@EquineAdvocates

6 ай бұрын

They're beautiful! However, we only shared the colors found on horses at our sanctuary. We currently don't have any Buckskin or Palamino horses.

😅I consider MaryKay pony as a POA because. of mottled muzzle, an Appaloosa trait

I received a comment re: diluting "pure" breeds. IMHO, "purity" is a myth (and over-valued as a concept, in dogs, cats, livestock, and people). If we look at the history of horse breeds, they're all mixed breeds. Working Quarter horses have some Morgan in them, racing Quarter horses are strengthened by crossing with Thoroughbreds (see "Appendix" Quarter horses). Thoroughbreds are strongly related to Arabians (see Godolphin, Darley, and Beyerly Turk; they aren't considered Thoughougbred unless they can be traced to one of these Arabians). Lippizaners & Andolusians also have Arabians to thank for their grace & intelligence. In Europe, any warmblood (hot breeds like Arabs & Thoroughbreds crossed with carriage & draft horses) that meets the physical and temperamental criteria of, say, a Hannoverian or Trakehner can be branded as one of those breeds, . However, not every such horse is considered qualified for breeding; showing, yes, breeding has higher standards. I wish the US had standards more like Europe. We wouldn't have so many dogs (for example) that were bred for mere "looks" rather than intelligence and/or robust health. I fear the same for our horses. I have seen huge, heavy Quarter horses with little, tiny feet; bred, it would seem, for halter classes rather than for strength, speed, agility.

There are SO many different coloured horses - can you just look at a horse and tell it’s colour?? Bc I know I can’t lol

@Kitsune1989

6 ай бұрын

Yes and no. Most of the time when we're talking colour we are using the phenotype (what the colour looks like to the eye) and for the common colours it's not usually to hard to tell what they are. The other type is genotype, which is the colour the horse is genetically speaking and doesn't always match the phenotype because while there aren't many base colours to horses there are tons of modifiers many of which are recessive. I'll give some examples of where phenotype and genotype don't match very well. ●A blonde/flaxen chestnut can look almost identical to a palomino and in some cases so much so that they have been registered under it. ● Some variations of seal brown (a variation on the bay colour) can appear visually to be a black. ●smokey black, where the cream gene acts on a black coat, can be near indistinguishable from a sun faded black or a seal brown because a single copy of the cream dilute does not usually effect much change in black based coats. ● the champagne gene can look a lot like palomino or like a buckskin depending on the base colour it's modifying. ●and once you get into the paint colouration things can get reeeeally weird genotype vs phenotype. Now that being said, unless someone is looking at breeding for colour or to get into certain registries that may exclude certain colours the genotype doesn't really matter that much. If one actually is looking at it from a breeding perspective genotype matters a whole lot. If one were aiming for double dilutes like perlino or cremello for instance then breeding to a very light flaxen chesnut would effectively be reversing all that hard work put into getting recessive genes to manifest. You would be awfully confused when you bred two horses that both looked like the carried the cream modifier, thinking the flaxen (no dilute gene) was a palomino (single dilute of the creme gene on red), only to find out one doesn't carry the modifier at all. Which is why ethical breeders will always do genetic tests to test both for colour and certain genetic diseases linked to colour such as Fatal White Syndrome, ERU (linked to the genes that cause appaloosa. Appies are 8x more likely to develop ERU then other horses), Lavender Foal Syndrome (linked to the arabian breed and to the silver gene), CA (basically the cerebal palsy of horses but unlike cerebal palsy in humans, CA is almost always progressive and almost always a death sentence. Most foals are put down within 6 months and the ones that aren't can only be pasture pets as they will never have the coordination to be ridden. They often die anyway because they are much more prone to serious injury.) Which is actually a very good example of phenotype vs genotype. Fun fact, true GENETIC albinoism is not possible in horses as the same genes (a double copy of dominant white allele W4, when homozygous) that causes genetic albinoism also causes FWS and always leads to the foal dying. That being said, the PHENOTYPE exists. You can have a horse with the classic pink skin, blue eyes, white coat, and even many of the same problems (such as vision problems) that true albino animals have usually caused by a single copy of the Dominant White gene. To the point where these horses can be called albino and it is accepted in some circles to call them such. But genetically speaking true albino horses don't exist. Now, there is a seperate modifier that suppresses the expression of colour, which is not the same as the absence of colour (which is what albinoism is). For instance the Camarillo White Horse is the only true "white horse" breed. It also does not contain the genes for LWS and is not a result of dominant white allele. As such "white" is the ONLY colour it can manifest. There are no variations such as greys, or rarities like other primarily single colour breeds (such as fresians being almost exclusively black except those few odd cases where bay may show up. Or like the famous lippizaners where a bay horse is possible but extremely rare. In fact they always keep at least one bay stud at the breeding facility for them and its said that if they ever failed to produce one that the breed would be in danger of failing). Hope this helped clear some up instead of making it all more confusing.

You named a few colors that don't exist in certain breeds. For example. in the quarter horse breed, they recognize the sorrel but not chestnut. In Arabian horses, they do not recognize sorrel or roan. And a paint is strictly in quarter horses. A pinto is typically any horse other than a quarter horse breed.

@ariellewilson730

6 ай бұрын

The Quarter Horse I had during my horse back riding lessons is a chestnut from his red coat.

Palomino?

@EquineAdvocates

5 ай бұрын

We currently don't have any Palamino horses, and we only shared the colors found on horses at our sanctuary.

“Fur”?

In balkans people had given names for many variations for horses (without including roan, appaloosa and bun) Dorat - bay Zekan - white Vranac - black Zelenko - gray Kulaš - buckskin Palomino well same Sarac - pinto Special one is albino, a horse with red eyes

On the grey colour she didnt describe it proper. White horses are so rare because white colour in horses is a terminator gene. They die. Very very very young. Often stillborn, or suffer as a foal and die in under a few months. Grey genetic is not a terminator gene. So if its white hair pink skin with blue or pink eyes thats albino. And albino is different than creamello lol or perlino colouring. The skin colour must be considered on the body too not just the muzzle because often horses can have large pink skinned patches on face and legs where the hair is short and easy to see through, while still having dark skin under the body hair which is thick and hard to see through. There is a stallion out there somewhere who looks like a true white however in his case he has splash overo i think and his white splash is all over his entire body, yet he retains dark eyes i believe. So he looks a true white has pink skin dark eyes,.. but he isnt white. It’s just his white “patch” is his entire body. He was genetically tested to prove it as everyone was excited thinking they had a true white without the terminator gene which kills the horse. The Appaloosa and the pinto colours and breeds. Every horse with small pattern spots is an Appaloosa but not every Appaloosa is an Appaloosa breed. The Appaloosa breed and the pinto breed were under fire for a long time because they are recent breed books that used the name of the colour type as the name of their breed. Knabstrupper are the originators of appalooosa markings but they are not Appaloosa’s they are knabstruppers. The same happened with pinto. The pinto association or whoever developed the stud book and they used the colour name as the breed name so when i was a kid with my first horse a piebald, i was at a pony club event and some sanctimonious Karen of her day came up admiring my horse asked if he was a pinto so i said yes because huge patches i was like uh lady??? Dumb question she asked if he was registered and i said no because he wasnt a purebred of anything and she snottily said well then he isnt a pinto and stalked off. So dumb,.. he is a pinto regardless of his breed. Full stop. So dont let that complicate matters. Now if someone tries that i ask them what kind of pinto do they mean, and trip them up. If its the breed no, if its the colour then obviously duh. Interestingly not all registered pinto breed horses have the markings. Yeah. There are six patterns of Appaloosa. Varnish, blanket, leaopard, snow cap, few spot, varnish. Varnish can look a lot like a roan. Few spot and snow cap are homogeneous for pattern i believe so if you breed a solid colored to a few spot and you are guaranteed a patterned foal. Very cool. You can get that as well in pintos. A homogenous pinto guarantees pattern and sometimes they are homogenous to black base or red base. Horse genetics are so cool.

When talking about white horses you might mention that there is no such thing as a true albino horse. The gene for albinism is a lethal gene in horses. But there's not enough time to mention all the colors - VERY NICE VIDEO.

@EquineAdvocates

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the information!

In India We have Millions of Complete White Horses... (they also Dance in our weddings)😂

😴😴😴I use horse color names only in my own language. The same with names of plants and animals.

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