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[Blondiecopper]

What would you class as a tricoloured horse colour.
I bought a baby bay who is bay but has unusually cream feathers on his legs. The vet has classed him as 'tricoloured' but I'm not so sure?

 

[Rowreach]

So he's red/brown with black points and white-ish socks? No white anywhere else?

 

[Blondiecopper]

So he's red/brown with black points and white-ish socks? No white anywhere else?

His body is brown, black mane/tail white stripe and black feathers but has cream almost bands around his legs. He doesn't have cream feathers as per post which was a typo. I'll try add a photo.

 

[Blondiecopper]

His body is brown, black mane/tail white stripe and black feathers but has cream almost bands around his legs. He doesn't have cream feathers as per post which was a typo. I'll try add a photo.

 

[Blondiecopper]

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[Elf On A Shelf]

He is just bay with short black bits. My Welsh cob is kind of the same, one the racehorses at work is the same.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

IMO 'tricoloured' is a term for dog colour and shouldn't be used for horses. I prefer either 'old school' names based on phenotype or the genetic colour.

It could be that your cob is more of a 'wild bay' type where the black points on the legs are smaller. A better photo of the whole horse would be helpful though as it's not easy to make an educated guess based on the fore limbs only.

 

[Gloi]

How old is he?

 

[Rowreach]

IMO 'tricoloured' is a term for dog colour and shouldn't be used for horses. I prefer either 'old school' names based on phenotype or the genetic colour.

It could be that your cob is more of a 'wild bay' type where the black points on the legs are smaller. A better photo of the whole horse would be helpful though as it's not easy to make an educated guess based on the fore limbs only.

I love the old fashioned term "oddbald" for tricoloured horses.

 

[I'm Dun]

Hes wild bay as MC says

 

[poiuytrewq]

Isn’t coloured of any sort Defined by a certain size white marking above a certain level?
Btw, I’m rubbish with correct colours so may have made that up!
I absolutely love those legs though! Gorgeously exclusive

 

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Wild/low points bay

 

[Blondiecopper]

How old is he?

Rising 4

 

[Auslander]

If he hasn't got white higher than his belly, he isn't coloured, and your vet should know this. I would be extremely cautious about using someone with such a staggering lack of horse knowledge. Find yourself a proper equine vet pronto!

 

[Meowy Catkin]

This is exactly the issue with using 'tricoloured' for horses as it means three colours, it doesn't strictly indicate broken coloured although is often used that way because skewbalds (which can look completely different from each other, for example: buckskin tobiano, bay with splash or a blue roan with frame) often have three colours on their coats. Hell even my flaxen chestnut has three colours (chestnut, flaxen and the white of his leg/face markings). It's far, far too vague to be of any help at all.

 

[Fransurrey]

Tricoloured refers to solid patches of colour. A brown and white horse with black mane for example would still be classed as skewbald. Your horse is bay/brown based on that pic. The tan feathering will probably shed with the winter coat (it certainly does on my Exmoors). Never heard the term 'wild bay' before, but that does make sense, as it's very much a native thing!

 

[Gloi]

This is an interesting colour


I would agree with wild bay for the op horse though a full image would be nice to see.