Colors and Markings Flashcards
Name the basic five colors of a horse.
Black, brown, bay, chestnut, white
A horse with body color ranging from tan through red to reddish brown, mane and tail black, and usually black on lower legs is what color?
Bay
The bay color system has six genotypes. Because of dominance only the phenotypes of three are expressed. This type of occurence is due to what factor?
Multiple Alleles
Chestnut is the recessive to what two colors?
Black and Bay
What color is a form of dun with body color yelowish or flesh-colored; mane; tail and dorsal stripe are red?
Red Dun
What is one major difference between a dun and buckskin?
A dun has a dorsal stripe
What is the most common pinto pattern?
Tobiano
Distinguish between a piebald and a skewbald
A Piebald- Black and white spotting
A Skewbald- White and any other color than black
What color is a horse that has a mixture of white with any other color hairs, often born solid-colored or almost solid-colored and gets lighter with age as more white hairs appear?
Grey
Describe a “rosy grey” horse
Gray/white hairs on a bay or chestnut
A true white horse has what color skin?
Pink Skin
What color is “flaxen” mane or tail?
Straw yellow or off white
Explain the difference between a silver mane and a flaxen mane
A silver mane is mostly white with few dark hairs. Flaxen refers to a straw yellow or off white color caused by a mixture of dark and white hairs in the mane
What color horse is golden yellow and may have a white mane and tail?
Palomino
the mane and tail of the palomino is white or near white, with no more than what percentage of darker hairs?
15%
What is a pattern of white hairs mixed into a base coat such as chestnut?
Roan
What is the difference between a roan and a gray colored horse?
The roan horse is born with the same proportion of white hairs as will be present with each successive coat. Each new coat a gray horse will have more white hairs until the horse appears white.
What color is more or less a uniform mixture of white with black hairson the body, but usually darker on the head and lower legs?
Blue Roan
What color is a horse with a uniform mixture of white and red hairs on the body?
Red Roan
True or False? Most roans are much darker around the head, neck and legs.
True
Describe the calico hair coat color on horses.
Excessive white on legs and face. Splashes and roaning on belly and body
What is the most common white pattern found on horses?
The minor white markings found on the face and legs
List five facial markings
1) Star 2) Stripe 3) Blaze 4) Star, stripe, and snip 5) Snip 6) Bald face 7) Star and stripe
What is a stocking?
Leg Marking: white from coronet to the knee
What are distal spots?
Dark spots on a white coronet band
What is the name of the marking on a horse’s leg in which a white band of hair goes around just the top of the horses’ hoof?
Coronet
Does hoof color influence hoof strength
No. However, in a few breeds an inherited white hoof does seem to be of poorer quality and breaks up more easily than a black hoof
Which breed seems especially susceptible to having an inherited white hoof or poorer quality?
Tobiano Pinto breeds
