What type of coloured is she?

[3Beasties]

Is she just a bog standard Skewbald? Is there even such a thing as a bog standard skewbald these days?

She has got black in her mane and tail if that makes a difference!

 

[TuscanBunnyGirl]

Bay Tobiano .. i think could be wrong

 

[catwithclaws]

i think bay tobiano too

 

[Sparkles]

I'd be simples and call her tri-coloured

 

[Mongoose11]

No idea but Jeez, she's a beaut!

 

[Magicmillbrook]

I'd be simples and call her tri-coloured

Me too - very nice BTW

 

[Tiarella]

Haven't spoken to you for years! But my god she is yummy! Do you have a new pony?

 

[aradiagreen]

She's beautiful! A skewbald can be brown & white or with black too I thought. She certainly has lovely markings.

 

[3Beasties]

Haven't spoken to you for years! But my god she is yummy! Do you have a new pony?

OMG you're alive!!! How are things with you?? Yes I've got a new one, she arrived just over a week ago

Tri-coloured works for me too

 

[Black_Horse_White]

I always though a Tri-coloured had to have the black on it's body too, not just in the mane & tail. I will stand corrected though beautiful horse either way.

 

[s4sugar]

Her colour is bay. Her pattern is tobiano. She is also a skewbald as she is a colour other than black with white patches.

Tricoloured is a dog term and no horse has that specific pattern.

 

[frazzled]

Ours has the same colouring except his tail is completely black. I call him skewbald and that is what his passport and chaps says.

 

[Capriole]

Tri-coloured certainly used to be a horse colour term as I remember it from my (now ancient) pony text books. I think Ive about lost track of all the modern terms and colours there are now!

Nice horse, OP

 

[fatpiggy]

I'd be simples and call her tri-coloured

Me too! Why complicate things? Pretty girl.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

I'm not a fan of the term tri-coloured at all. firstly it does make me think of dogs, not horses and secondly because it's so vague.

EG, If I said to you 'go and catch the tri-coloured' and there were these horses in the field...

... which would you catch?

 

[Littlelegs]

I'd catch the first. All are lovely, but first is just my type, very pretty. Would have f.a. to do with whether I thought it tri coloured, I'd just catch it & do one!

 

[PandorasJar]

I'd catch the first. All are lovely, but first is just my type, very pretty. Would have f.a. to do with whether I thought it tri coloured, I'd just catch it & do one!

I'll take the second

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Fair enough!

Of course all the horses shown could be described as tri-coloured.

They are (in order) Bay Tobiano, Flaxen Chestnut sabino, Blue roan Tobiano, Buckskin Frame Overo and a Dun Frame Overo (Grullo Frame Overo if you prefer).


Anyhooo... back to the original question. I'd call her a Bay Tobiano.

If you imagine that he white markings were paint and then you washed the paint off, you would be left with a bay horse. Becsuse the 'paint' looks like it has been poured on from above over her nack and rump, that indicates that the coloured gene that she has is Tobiano. Look at how the two frame Overos above don't have white along their spines.

 

[Capriole]

I'm not a fan of the term tri-coloured at all. firstly it does make me think of dogs, not horses and secondly because it's so vague.

EG, If I said to you 'go and catch the tri-coloured' and there were these horses in the field...
... which would you catch?

None of them, Id say go catch it yourself

Fair enough!

Of course all the horses shown could be described as tri-coloured.

They are (in order) Bay Tobiano, Flaxen Chestnut sabino, Blue roan Tobiano, Buckskin Frame Overo and a Dun Frame Overo (Grullo Frame Overo if you prefer).

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But then if you asked me to go and fetch any one of those, Id struggle to know what I was fetching.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Would saying bay skewbald, chestnut skewbald, blue roan skewbald, buckskin skewbald (with lots of white) and dun skewbald help?

 

[Capriole]

Yes :thumbup:

 

[tiga71]

@ Faracat

What is my boy?

Thanks, sorry that is massive

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Bay tobiano.

He looks like he has sabino too as he has jagged edges to his patches and white flecks in his dark patches. 3Beasties Bay tobiano also seems to have sabino, it's pretty common in horses with white leg/face markings.

 

[Crugeran Celt]

I'll take the second

Oh good that means I could catch the 3rd, stunning! and I am not a fan of coloureds at all but he/she really is beautiful.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Oh good that means I could catch the 3rd, stunning! and I am not a fan of coloureds at all but he/she really is beautiful.

He's a paint stallion called Heza Blue Tomcat.

http://tashanorpark.com/?page_id=72

 

[FlaxenPony05]

I'm not a fan of the term tri-coloured at all. firstly it does make me think of dogs, not horses and secondly because it's so vague.

EG, If I said to you 'go and catch the tri-coloured' and there were these horses in the field...

... which would you catch?

eek! I'd catch all as they're all so yummy

 

[Cortez]

I'd like a look at Heza Blue Tomcat's pedigree.......

 

[Serenity087]

Gone are the days of "Bay skewbald" then?

A piebald is a black and white skewbald and a skewbald is a horse with white markings on it's body other than face and legs.

Of course, then you get things like Dorey, who was probably a greyed out bay sabino with blood markings... From what I can work out anyway! PMSL!

 

[JoJo_]

To go down the basic route of skewbald, piebald or tri-coloured. The OP's horse would be skewbald. As far as I know, to be tri-coloured, they must have black in other places than mane, tail or hocks I think.

 

[Echo Bravo]

Old fashioned skewbald, but I'm getting on a bit and don't understand these new American terms for coloured horses.