Skewbald and piebalds

[flossy7]

Just wondering if there is actually a difference here,

I have always had skewbalds, and believe that piebald tend to be slightly heavier and more cob like, is this true or is it just pure chance?

Or is it dependent on their sire/dams colouring?

You can see Jacks profile at www.spaceforhorses.com/profiles/28

He is quarter TB so maybe thats where the brown came from though his mother was black and white...!!

 

[KatB]

Nothing different in build!! Piebald is black and white, skewbald any other colour and white

 

[sallypops]

as far as i knew it was purely colouring and not a breed :S cause anything thats black an white is piebald and anything white an any other colour is skewbald

 

[Theresa_F]

It is nothing to do with breed or type, but colour.

A piebald is a horse with black and white areas, no other colour is permitted.

A skewbald is a horse with any colour other than black, ie grey, bay, chesnut etc and white areas. A skewbald can have a black mane and tail and a little black on the knees.

A tri-coloured - is a horse with three coloured areas, ie black, white and bay on the body. They are quite rare - people often wrongly refer to a tri-coloured as a skewbald which like my chap has a black tail.

 

[vennessa]

As above purely colour. My old mare is black/white. Very fine. Her dad was a race horse and she has taken the thoroughbred side. I know someone with a brown/white. As heavy as an old fashioned carthorse

 

[volatis]

a tri coloured is just a bay and white, it appears to have three colours as it has black points, brown body (just like a normal bay horse) just with white patches.
Therefore by the English description of piebald and skewbald, a tri coloured is a skewbald, a bay and white

 

[Cahill]

what about tobiano and oviano and the rest?

 

[Theresa_F]

I have been told that my chap is a skewbald and most definately not a tri-coloured by both CHAPS and BSPA - he is exactly what you describe, bay and white body with black tail, black and white mane, black forelock and where the bay meets the white on the legs, a little black.

This is from the BSPA booklet on colour and markings

Tricolour – very rare – must have patches of three colours on the body, white or black in the mane or tail or where white markings meet any other colour and create “halos” of a different colour do not constitute a tricolour.

For those who might be interested in this, ie colouring and different types of markings

http://www.bspaonline.com/pdf/2008/colours-booklet-2008.pdf

 

[trendybraincell]

I'm no expert on coloureds, but tabiano and overo I believe refers to which is the base colour (i.e. white) and which colour forms the pattern over this.

In Tobiano white is the base colour crossing the spine of the body between the withers and tail. Most have white stockings.

Overo is the opposite and tend to have solid colour legs.

Tovero is a paint pattern of a white horse, pink skin, with some dark coloring around the ears, mouth, chest, flanks and base of the tail.

And Sabino is similar to the overo but has jagged roan looking edges to the patterns

 

[RobinHood]

Sounds like your horse is a bay tobiano which is a bay horse with the tobiano gene. (E-A-TO- if you're interested in genetics

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[Cahill]

i looked at a book about horse colours in a shop a while ago.
not once did it mention piebald or scewbald,just all the other ones.

 

[cellie]

Theresa- F
Surprised at that are they really rare.Our horse is tri she looks black and white on first glance but has all three colours and is really pretty very biased lol

 

[CalliChristmasTree]

I call Calli a skewbald but she is registered as a Bay Tobiano.
Her Dam (british sports horse) is a Piebald and Sire Bay Tobiano

 

[KatB]

Goddy is a bay tabiano. It is a posh name for a skewbald!!

Its a way of classifying their markings.

 

[JoJo_]

The vet who vetted my new coloured said vets go by black and white = piebald, brown etc and white = skewbald and brown, white and black(mine has black in her tail, mane and a bit on one leg) = odd-coloured. They dont use tri-coloured lol.

So her black marking on one one leg (above her hoof) doesnt make her tri-coloured?