what colour is she

swampdonkey said:
sorry to hijack but what colour is my boy technically then, he is a little bizarre with one chestnut patch and blue patches underneath which are visable through his summer coat?? He is a connemara cross.

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The blue patches are coloured hair or his skin?

If he has darker skin patches then he possibly started out as a chestnut (and white) and greyed out.

We used to have one regular competitor at a local show who would enter her 'grey' in the Coloured classes, you could quite clearly see his differently coloured skin under his summer coat, so technically he was a coloured. Once (to prove her point I think :)) she took him in after she'd wet his coat down, and before he dried out he looked blue and pink!
 
OK, I think that he's a grey and white skewbald (blue and white). Tobiano is likely but without seeing good photos of the placement of the grey patches it's only a guess. As Enfys said, the chesnut patch does indicate that he was chestnut before he greyed out. You do get 'bloody shoulder' markings with greys, which aren't always on the shoulder despite the name and are really patches of the base colour that have failed to grey out.

EAT Photo showing bloody shoulder markings AKA bloodmarks apparently. ;)
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2nd photo with bloodmark on the face. :D
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Faracat said:
OK, I think that he's a grey and white skewbald (blue and white). Tobiano is likely but without seeing good photos of the placement of the grey patches it's only a guess. As Enfys said, the chesnut patch does indicate that he was chestnut before he greyed out. You do get 'bloody shoulder' markings with greys, which aren't always on the shoulder despite the name and are really patches of the base colour that have failed to grey out.


thank you, I have always wondered how he would have looked as a foal, as in was he chestnut then greyed out. Everyone that meets him always comments on his chestnut patch! At least he is individual :)
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Faracat said:
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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its ok i thought it was tounge in cheek and just wanted to defend myself for any other comment lol
 
Sorry to bust in on your conversation but I am fascinated by this. I have two miniature horses that are registered as skewbald but they are both chestnut with white legs and a white stripe going from their tail diagonally. The yearling also has a white spot on either side of her neck near her ears. They both have white patches on their bellies, very difficult to see these as they are so close to the ground! They both also have roan patches all over their bodies and their tails are cream and chestnut in stipes of colour. I had no idea about the different markings coming from different lines of breeding. In my area every other field and the marshes are now covered in what I have refered to as coloured horses (sorry about that, my only defence is ignorance!)
 
Crugeran Celt said:
Sorry to bust in on your conversation but I am fascinated by this. I have two miniature horses that are registered as skewbald but they are both chestnut with white legs and a white stripe going from their tail diagonally. The yearling also has a white spot on either side of her neck near her ears. They both have white patches on their bellies, very difficult to see these as they are so close to the ground! They both also have roan patches all over their bodies and their tails are cream and chestnut in stipes of colour. I had no idea about the different markings coming from different lines of breeding. In my area every other field and the marshes are now covered in what I have refered to as coloured horses (sorry about that, my only defence is ignorance!)
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I'd love to see photos of them. :)

Queenbee - Ben has a base colour of black, he also has agouti (bay) and then definately tobiano and quite possibly splash. So to but it simply - bay tovero.

I love the way that he has the edging around his patches on his face.
 
Faracat said:
I'd love to see photos of them. :)

Queenbee - Ben has a base colour of black, he also has agouti (bay) and then definately tobiano and quite possibly splash. So to but it simply - bay tovero.

I love the way that he has the edging around his patches on his face.
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I will take some photos, not had them long fell in love with the yearling while on holiday in West Wales last August and went back in September to buy her. Unfortunately my Cob/Thoroughbred took a dislike to her and she had to be kept on her own. I really don't like to see a horse on its own, even a little one that thinks she can walk into the kitchen and steal the dog food! So contacted the breeder who agreed I could purchase the mother to keep her company. Mare was pregnant to a palomino/ white stallion but had a still birth a fortnight ago, very sad but mare doing well. Thats why I was interested in the colours, this mare has now had three foals, two surviving, to the same stallion, all foals are chestnut with the exact same white markings unyet these markings by the ears are not on either parent.
 
Faracat said:
I'd love to see photos of them. :)

Queenbee - Ben has a base colour of black, he also has agouti (bay) and then definately tobiano and quite possibly splash. So to but it simply - bay tovero.

I love the way that he has the edging around his patches on his face.
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thank you faracat, he is called ben nevis because the white splodge on his bum makes him look like he has been snowed on, but my favourite bit is the identical markings on his mouth, I call them his clowns smile :D
 
Mines classed as a tobiano skewbald on her passport.
She has grey roaning jaggered patches and solid black ears and a pink face and pink skin :p

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cob&onion said:
Mines classed as a tobiano skewbald on her passport.
She has grey roaning jaggered patches and solid black ears and a pink face and pink skin :p

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Sabino too (hense roany jaggedy edges to her patches). Is she greying out or not?

I would call her a tovero (due to tobiano + sabino). So she's either a blue tovero or a black tovero depending on whether or not she has the grey gene.
 
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