can a horse be born skewbald but turn piebald?

[Errin Paddywack]

I don't know if they still do but CHAPS used to ask for three pictures when registering with them; both sides and head on though they should have had a rear end one too to make up the set.
It's not a bad idea, particularly if it's a coloured, to have those pic's as reference anyway even if they are chipped.

So do the British Appaloosa society. Photos of each side plus front and rear. In the days before BApS when it was the British Spotted Horse and Pony Society, you had to fill out all the markings in a diagram, that was fun. My first stallion's licence had the same back in 1980. The vet took a copy of his registration document so he could copy the markings. Photos make a lot of sense for all breeds I think.

 

[criso]

Photos are useful for coloured/appaloosa etc but with a bay horse with not a white hair anywhere wouldn't add much.

 

[SEL]

Nugs passport has his baby pictures in!

I guess that's in case he decided to grow more spots?? I've got Splodgy's baby photos and she had a teeny, tiny white bottom in them.

 

[Maesfen]

Photos are useful for coloured/appaloosa etc but with a bay horse with not a white hair anywhere wouldn't add much.

In that case, whorls and chestnut diagrams are your friend.

 

[SpotsandBays]

I guess that's in case he decided to grow more spots?? I've got Splodgy's baby photos and she had a teeny, tiny white bottom in them.

Can you imagine a vet sitting down and drawing all the individual spots and flecks on the diagram

 

[criso]

In that case, whorls and chestnut diagrams are your friend.

Yes and that's what I have on the diagrams in his passport but in that case I don't think a photo would add much.

However a photo would be really helpful with a coloured horse showing the outlines of the patches which are different in each case.

 

[ester]

its nice to have baby pics in your horse's passport though

 

[SpotsandBays]

So do the British Appaloosa society. Photos of each side plus front and rear. In the days before BApS when it was the British Spotted Horse and Pony Society, you had to fill out all the markings in a diagram, that was fun. My first stallion's licence had the same back in 1980. The vet took a copy of his registration document so he could copy the markings. Photos make a lot of sense for all breeds I think.

Oh interesting, my boy (registered PB BApS) only has two photos, one of each side

 

[Errin Paddywack]

Oh interesting, my boy (registered PB BApS) only has two photos, one of each side

The other two were always kept on file if I remember rightly.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

I had a lovely dark bay Oldenburg mare or that's what I thought, on her passport she was registered as brown

 

[Pedantic]

In this day and age we can all identify as whatever we like, I identify as an elderly short white grumpy male with nasty little man syndrome, but with a chip on each shoulder, so evenly balanced, so horsey can identify as whatever it likes, piebald skewbald, it's always been like this in the horse world, 12hh geldings identifying as a17.5hh stallion, it's all inclusivity nowadays