Coloured horses - white ear colour

[Sarah_Jane]

A friend of mine has a skewbald horse with white ears. She has recently been told this is very unusual and indeed looking at pictures of coloured horses online all appear to be black or bay ears!

So how unusual is it? Anyone else got a coloured with white ears?

 

[TuscanBunnyGirl]

i think it is quite unusual.
if it's just the ears it's called a medicine hat and was thought to have magical properties by the Indians.

inverted example

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Could you post a photo of the horse? The most common pinto genes in the UK are tobiano (tends to leave the head the base colour) and sabino (only really covers the ears if it's covered the entire coat). There are other pinto genes. Splash can result in a white head.

 

[Sarah_Jane]

Sorry best shot I can find for a minute (not my horse so rather not include those with a rider!)

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Does the other side of her head have more white than the side shown?

 

[Sarah_Jane]

Does the other side of her head have more white than the side shown?

Yes although not a huge amount the other side is 2/3 brown

 

[Sparkles]

A fair majority of our coloureds have had white ears. Just depends where the markings stop really I guess!


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[Meowy Catkin]

There does seem to be a few pinto genes there. It would be nice to see a full body shot, but from the photo it looks like she has tobiano, sabino and splash. the spots on her face are quite interesting too.

What's her breeding?

 

[Sarah_Jane]

Ok checked ok to post pictures

The mare is by Apache Run

 

[Mongoose11]

My girl has one completely white ear and one completely black. Not what you are looking for so largely irrelevant but I just thought I would share. Her big ol' ears are in my avatar thingy!

 

[Meowy Catkin]

I definitely see tobiano, sabino and splash. It's possible that she has LP too (mottled skin on her face and the spots). I think that she looks like a bay (black + agouti) and white. If she does have LP, the simple way to describe her colour would be as a pintaloosa.

 

[Queenbee]

Sorry best shot I can find for a minute (not my horse so rather not include those with a rider!)

sarah jane! I know that horse Im at her yard You ordered some photos from twizzel/rachel on here I have heard

 

[ISH_lover]

Oh lovely a half sister to my boy. Apache run was coloured but also carried an appaloosa gene not sure which as my boy is spotty

 

[jrp204]

sarah jane! I know that horse Im at her yard You ordered some photos from twizzel/rachel on here I have heard

She is such a cracking little horse!!
Queenbee, you will know my daughter, she rode F last year and has Lily.