Pie bald going grey?!?!

[gemmypie44]

Our 5 yr old piebald cob is malting as is most horses, but the black markings on his flanks are going White! Is this just his winter coat and does it come back? Silly question probably but it's as if some one has died his fur :S will brushing it all out make it White or will the black start showing through?
Thanks

 

[Honey08]

Some piebalds do go grey. Like some black horses turn dapple, then grey. My friend had a grey horse that was called Patch. I could never understand his name until one day she bathed him, and you could see that his skin was part black part pink in a piebald type markings way.

 

[Supertrooper]

The 13yr old black horse that I share is going grey with his summer coat too, according to his ex owners he's not done it before!

 

[Kallibear]

He may be greying out. Friend has a coloured mare who was black and white when she got her but now, 2yrs later, is almost entirely grey

 

[Indigo Moose]

If it's just on his flanks, it could be rabicano - roaning on the flanks and belly, and white at the top of the tail. Have a Google for photos.

 

[meandmyself]

Depending on the colour of his parent, he could very well be going grey.

 

[gemmypie44]

Damn wanted to do coloured showing with him.... On his face an neck it is still jet black, I don't understand it.... Will have to have fingers crossed that it come up black again

 

[muddygreymare]

Do you have any photos of him? He could be going grey, but hard to tell without photos.

 

[gemmypie44]

Will get some today

 

[meandmyself]

You can still do coloured showing with him- he'll take a while to go totally grey. And they look so nice in the grey(blue) and white stage. See?

http://www.horseforum.com/avatars/taihoa-11660.gif?dateline=1258011855
http://www.pearsonshowhorses.com/horses/Chupps-Mighty-Titan/photos/thumb.jpg

 

[Molly'sMama]

Okay, but my piebald is moulting severely, but where her black patches meets the white, its going roan ..? whats that about? xxx

 

[gemmypie44]

That's what's happening exactly! But pure black still at the front! Maybe its just winter coat coming out fingers crossed!

 

[gemmypie44]

http://m1211.photobucket.com/albumv...VZEOHxTHJ+Z42bXPFl/8e6cUZ6Pirl39PzXQgSTue2zI= full pic of him

 

[gemmypie44]

http://m1211.photobucket.com/albumv...VZEOHxTHJ+Z42bXPFl/8e6cUZ6Pirl39PzXQgSTue2zI= the patch going roan :S is this just malting or going grey

 

[jakkibag]

My two year old cob is exactly the same, his grandma is blue and white which I thought might have an effect on his colouring, he is still black on his chest, but is greying/roany on his bum!

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

My mother had a lovely well marked piebald shettie mare a long time ago, brought as a 2yr old & kept with her breeder (who rented our fields at the time). By a std pure black stallion & out of a std white grey mare.
By the time the mare was 6 she was just about blue roan & white (all the black markings went grey)
By the time she was 12 she was pure white unless you bathed her & then you could still see the black pigment in her skin where she was originally black when born & as a youngster.
Her 1st foal (when she was 5) was a blue roan & white - nicely marked, but again by the time he was 5/6 he was also pure white, except for a few hairs at the base of his mane.

It happens.....

 

[mcnaughty]

My old pony was born skewbald and eventually turned fleabitten grey on the coloured patches. Sorry, looks like you boy might be going the same way...