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I would stick with palomino tobiano. :) Very pretty.
 
I'm not sure about splash. Other genes will cause blue eyes and big face markings. Having the face marking go up to or over the eye, makes a blue eye likely anyway.
 
oh dont mind the highjacking but for once people were saying my horse way pritty and now your putting up pictures of prittier horses no far!!

and im going to settle for chestnut tobiano.

how do i say that btw lol i worry i might pronouce it wrong
 
I thought Sabino was markings similar to the ones you would expect to see on a Clydesale horse?

Usually white stockings on the back legs, a splash on the belly and under the chin.

My boy is positive for the Sabino1 gene, he is also homyzygous black so he is a black sabino I guess.

You can see his belly splash in this pic - and he has a white chin and splashes up his back legs too and he has a mixed black and white tail - but no white patches on his main body/any higher than his elbow.

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Believe me Madeleine, its very rare my boy actually looks like that!!

He's usually covered in mud &/or crap & his mane sticks up in a mohican due to my rubbish clipping skills!!! xx
 
Sabino is a fun gene. It can cause jagged edged legmarkings, face markings (often with white on the lower lip too, but not always), roaning (without the true roan gene) that can be the odd hair or so roaned that you can't see the base colour and it can cause white patches, again with jagged or roaned edges.

so you could have a horse with one jagged edged white sock (minimal sabino) right up to a 'true white' (maximum sabino). Both of my chestnuts (lots of photos in my profile) are minimal sabinos.

Maximum sabino foal (Dam also has sabino markings but much more minimal).
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Gulastra plume (grey tail - no grey gene) is also caused by sabino.
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It's also worth noting that sabino colouring can also be called Blagdon, although the gene is always called sabino. :)
 
I must be one of those stange creatures that really doesn't care what colour a horse is(or what you call the colour) so longer as it is a good horse. After all a rose by any other name is still a rose. (though I admit it's nice to have something easy to keep clean);)
 
POLLDARK said:
I must be one of those stange creatures that really doesn't care what colour a horse is(or what you call the colour) so longer as it is a good horse. After all a rose by any other name is still a rose. (though I admit it's nice to have something easy to keep clean);)
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I care because I'm a molecular biologist who dabbles in genetics. I don't like the inaccuracy of skewbald. It offends me :p :D
 
Polldark, I also couldn't care less what colour people think my horse is.

Jesstickle, is skewbald actually technically incorrect or is it just too broad a term? (I took it to believe it was white and any colour other than black coloured?)
 
When it comes to breeding coloured horses, it's essential to understand which coloured gene they have because having two copies of Frame is lethal. Foals are born and then die shortly after birth from overo lethal white syndrome (their colon doesn't function properly) a very painful death.

We mainly have tobiano and sabino in Britain, but as coloured horses are more popular now, you do see other versions of coloured genes more often.


ETA. Piebald and skewbald are perfectly correct, if archaic tems. They don't tell you what particular genes are involved. A grey tobiano, chestnut frame, dun sabino and blue roan splash would all be classed as 'skewbald' for example. With piebald all you know is that it is a black horse with some sort of coloured/pinto gene.
 
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Sabino is a fun gene. It can cause jagged edged legmarkings, face markings (often with white on the lower lip too, but not always), roaning (without the true roan gene) that can be the odd hair or so roaned that you can't see the base colour and it can cause white patches, again with jagged or roaned edges.

so you could have a horse with one jagged edged white sock (minimal sabino) right up to a 'true white' (maximum sabino). Both of my chestnuts (lots of photos in my profile) are minimal sabinos.
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This is a sabino frame overo (just a big, fat chestnut in my eyes) as Faracat says the jagged sabino markings are very clear, roaning (small patch on girth) is also indicative of sabino.

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These are bog standard tobianos, the first is a buckskin (that is what he is registered as) the other a bay

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Faracat said:
Piebald and skewbald are perfectly correct, if archaic tems. .
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:D

When i first came here I made the mistake of saying Piebald and Skewbald - only did it once, nobody knew what the heck I was wittering about, coloured meant nothing either although that term does escape my lips occasionally still.

So Paint is how I think of any 'coloured' horse, colour first ie red and white, sorrel and chestnut are interchangeable, we just say red everyone knows what you mean .

In a field full of Paints (also a blanket term for anything part coloured, size, breeding, shape irrelevant - nobody in my area uses the term Pinto) you simply say "Oh the bay with the white face and legs" or "the black with the stumpy tail" or "the brown one with the splat on its' side" We rarely bother with the nitty gritty of sabino, frame, splash, overo or tovero, or medicine hat (although everyone knows what their horses are) unless you are showing or breeding.
 
madeleine1 said:
at least i didnt spll it wrong as i did before with sabino lol and u got to forgive me, ive been doing dissertation all day and im dyslexic lol, i know its a crime to spell things wrong on here.
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:) Hardly a crime.

;) I am always spelling things wrong :)

Apologies, I didn't intend to come across as brusque in my reply :(
 
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Enfys said:
:) Hardly a crime.

;) I am always spelling things wrong :)
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Sorry madeleine1, I didn't mean to correct you in a mean way at all. Sorry. :( I too struggle with spelling and it doesn't help that my fingers don't keep up with my brain when I'm typing either. ;)
 
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