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madeleine1

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im sure someones told me before but i know shes a skewbald im not that special but what the technical terms etc

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is she just a chestnut sabino or would i say anything more complicated. and does why is she a sabino is it because shes mostly white or where her patches are etc.

and moody mare i know she has to make up for her moodyness with something lol:)
 
Mine too!! He's mostly white with a few palomino patches - on passport as "skewbald - lemon & white"

Your mare is lovely :D
 
A very smart skewbald, why do you want to be able to call the colour something different, calling it by another fancy name won't make it other than a skewbald. Be happy you have a nice looking horse. A lemon & white ought to be paler.
 
POLLDARK said:
A very smart skewbald, why do you want to be able to call the colour something different, calling it by another fancy name won't make it other than a skewbald. Be happy you have a nice looking horse. A lemon & white ought to be paler.
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because when i talk to friends who dont no my horse but are horsey and i say i have a skewbald they so oh brown and white then etc and im fed up of saying she white with a bit of chestnut skewbald. it gets anoying
 
POLLDARK said:
A very smart skewbald, why do you want to be able to call the colour something different, calling it by another fancy name won't make it other than a skewbald. Be happy you have a nice looking horse. A lemon & white ought to be paler.
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because skewbald isn't scientifically accurate?
 
madeleine1 said:
because when i talk to friends who dont no my horse but are horsey and i say i have a skewbald they so oh brown and white then etc and im fed up of saying she white with a bit of chestnut skewbald. it gets anoying
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If they don't know about Skewbald then they'll probably struggle with Tobiano etc.....Carry a photo around with you - it's easier!:D
 
Id just answer 'chestnut skewbald' if anyone asks...seems to describe accurately enough without sounding like a simpleton (as I would) by saying 'orange and white'!
 
millreef said:
If they don't know about Skewbald then they'll probably struggle with Tobiano etc.....Carry a photo around with you - it's easier!:D
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what jesstickle said and they do know but skewbald means so much its to vague.

skewbald can mean
black, brown and white
brown and white
lemon and white
chestnut and white
basically its another word for coloured but not piebald.
 
So mine has markings in just about the same places as the OP's (without the spot on back) but they are Palomino & he also has half a blue eye. Would be a Palomino Tobiano?
 
madeleine1 said:
is she just a chestnut sabino or would i say anything more complicated. and does why is she a sabino is it because shes mostly white or where her patches are etc.

and moody mare i know she has to make up for her moodyness with something lol:)
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As S4sugar said. She is chestnut tobiano. She is not sabino.
 
POLLDARK said:
A very smart skewbald, why do you want to be able to call the colour something different, calling it by another fancy name won't make it other than a skewbald. Be happy you have a nice looking horse. A lemon & white ought to be paler.
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I disagree. There are different types of skewbald. They have a base colour (bay or chestnut or black if it's a piebald) and their pattern is controlled by any number of genes - Sabino, tobiano, overo, splash white etc. You can also have more than one of these 'pattern' genes.
 
I don't like the terms lemon and white or tri coloured at all. Bleugh!

Tina, yours does sound like a palomino tobiano from your description. :)
 
His markings are a lot like in the tovero link although he has a full Palomino head with a white face :D

Sorry for hijacking OP!.xx
 
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