Coloured fans...what do you prefer?

[miss_c]

realy??!! my favourite plait on willow is the one where black and white meet! xx

Yes, I love the way it looks... having three different coloured threads is a pain in the neck though!!! Why did I have to get a confused pony?

 

[Auslander]

I'm going to be awkward and say tricoloured!

I like a nice bright bay and white with not too much white. I used to ride a hunter type bay and white skewbald who was very smart with just a narrow white stripe on her face the rest being brown with a black forelock and her mane was black to about a third of the way down.

The markings should have smooth lines, I don't like the colouring you see on a lot of traditionals now that is sort of ragged round the edges. I don't like a lot of white on the face, and particularly not when it goes outside their eyes.

The coloured measles posted is VERY smart - I like that a lot.

Agreed - love tri coloureds! I had one for my son - lovely little pony!

 

[NicoleS_007]

I prefer skewbalds to piebalds, but im not a fan of coloureds id prefer a solid colour. I also prefer more colour than white on a coloured or evenly marked, not a fan of to much white!!

 

[ester]

If coloured I do like a red and white,

I think I have been all black and white'd out over recent years!

 

[Kobie]

I'm getting a blue and white 3yo filly, more colour than white although with age she'll fade, i like horses with more colour than white, usually anything other than black and white unless they are like the one 'Measles' posted the pic of

 

[Holly Hocks]

I didn't like any coloureds - never have. Then at weekend a friend took me to see this 2 year old and I bought her.

 

[CinnamonChristmasCookie]

I love skews, but I got a pie (boy in my sig) and tho I'd prefer more colour on him, he's a bloody good horse, jumps like a 'stag' apparently! He is a fab boy.

Same horse, he's a typical traveller type, bit too tall at 15hh.

 

[whisp&willow]

But I would prefer if a coloured horse had dark coloured hocks!!

willow has one black hock... i like that one much better than the white one!!! Billy is a handsome boy!

spot the risk... i am in love with your horse!

miss christmas: aaaah i get you now!
xx

 

[tinap]

i love lemon and whites but i have only ever see one, they seem to be a rare thing,

Now ive finally got pics working, here are some of my lovely boy
(i used to hate coloureds too until we found him!!)

 

[Enfys]

I HATE COLOURED HORSES, I wouldnt know weather to ride it or milk it!!!! A nice dark bay any day or a Ginger nut

Even I admit that Robin looks like a Hereford cow! ...but she's a very nice Hereford cow

 

[EllaBellaSkippy]

Skewbald or tri-coloured for me and minimal white. Plus I'd rather them on Sport horse breeds not cobs, though I think a coloured cob, clipped and hogged, can scrub up quite well!
If anyone could gift me the 5k it costs to buy this chap I'd be very happy!

 

[Enfys]

i love lemon and whites but i have only ever see one, they seem to be a rare thing,

Is palomino and white the same thing?

I have 2 of those too but they are minimally marked, so look like palominos really, still registered Paints though.

That's the silver bay paint that I showed earlier, he's grown a bit since winter!

 

[whisp&willow]

ellabella: you want to go halfers on him???!!!

 

[Izzwizz]

Love my tri-coloured ISH, more brown than white, black mane and tail, hes gorgeous and very handsome. Unfortunately no photos to post.

 

[whisp&willow]

i was told that to be tricoloured the horse needed to have brown, black and white hair above the hocks, not inc mane and tail?

is this right or rubbish?

im starting to think i have a quadcoloured...!

 

[Fiorano]

Now ive finally got pics working, here are some of my lovely boy
(i used to hate coloureds too until we found him!!)

Haha Snap!!

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

Wisp&Willow - you're correct. To be tri-coloured, a hore must have two different colours on it's body, this excludes the points.

 

[whisp&willow]

thanks spot the risk! i thought so! oh well, looks like we're just di-coloured afterall then! ha ha!!

all these lovely coloureds are keeping me from my housework.... im going to to be in trouble when himself comes home! ha ha!

 

[miss_c]

Wisp&Willow - you're correct. To be tri-coloured, a hore must have two different colours on it's body, this excludes the points.

Can this include two very obviously different shades of brown? Titchy has both chestnut and bay!

 

[whisp&willow]

from your earlier pictures i thought she was tri-coloured.

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

Tri-colour info - page 3 so you don't have to wade through the whole lot!

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

D'oh!!

Was trying to post a link to the Colour and Markings download on the BSPA website!

 

[tinap]

Fiorano, I think ours need to swap heads!! My boys is huge & yours looks so dainty

He/she is lovely though

 

[rockysmum]

I have both but I have to say I prefer the Piebald colouring. She has more black than white as well.

But best of all she has a black tail, I hate getting the others mainly white tail clean.

 

[Sportznight]

I adore my filly

She too can have a cool plait lol

 

[whisp&willow]

love the cool plait sportznight! i wish every one could look like that!

 

[rockysmum]

Now that I find very annoying since I started having to plait, the Piebald is hogged so I never had to bother. My oldie is bay so I could just use black thread. I find the two colours impossible to do, how do you hide the thread, white shows on the chestnut bit and vice versa. I spend ages trying to space my plaits so each one only has one colour in it. Perhaps I'm getting OCD.

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She too can have a cool plait lol

 

[Sportznight]

I think the method of plaiting is called rosette? Not sure. I use what ever colour thread is handy, I think it's brown atm lol. The trick is not to circle the plait with the thread - you fold/roll the plait up and sew back and forth at the base, on the crest line. With enough practice, you should never be able to see the thread - practice with white thread in a black mane

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Chestnut is my favourite horse colour... so I like chestnut and white skewbalds best.

I had a quick google and I like all of these coat patterns/colours.

This is a very smart (and shiny) horse.

I like these piebalds too.

 

[rockysmum]

I think the method of plaiting is called rosette? Not sure. I use what ever colour thread is handy, I think it's brown atm lol. The trick is not to circle the plait with the thread - you fold/roll the plait up and sew back and forth at the base, on the crest line. With enough practice, you should never be able to see the thread - practice with white thread in a black mane

Thanks for that, off to practice on my oldie with white thread, at least he keeps still as well.