Colors and Markings

Question 1

Name the basic five colors of a horse.

Answer 1

Black, brown, bay, chestnut, white

Question 2

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?

Answer 2

Bay

Question 3

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?

Answer 3

Multiple Alleles

Question 4

Chestnut is the recessive to what two colors?

Answer 4

Black and Bay

Question 5

What color is a form of dun with body color yelowish or flesh-colored; mane; tail and dorsal stripe are red?

Answer 5

Red Dun

Question 6

What is one major difference between a dun and buckskin?

Answer 6

A dun has a dorsal stripe

Question 7

What is the most common pinto pattern?

Answer 7

Tobiano

Question 8

Distinguish between a piebald and a skewbald

Answer 8

A Piebald- Black and white spotting

A Skewbald- White and any other color than black

Question 9

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?

Answer 9

Grey

Question 10

Describe a “rosy grey” horse

Answer 10

Gray/white hairs on a bay or chestnut

Question 11

A true white horse has what color skin?

Answer 11

Pink Skin

Question 12

What color is “flaxen” mane or tail?

Answer 12

Straw yellow or off white

Question 13

Explain the difference between a silver mane and a flaxen mane

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What color horse is golden yellow and may have a white mane and tail?

Answer 14

Palomino

Question 15

the mane and tail of the palomino is white or near white, with no more than what percentage of darker hairs?

Answer 15

15%

Question 16

What is a pattern of white hairs mixed into a base coat such as chestnut?

Answer 16

Roan

Question 17

What is the difference between a roan and a gray colored horse?

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

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?

Answer 18

Blue Roan

Question 19

What color is a horse with a uniform mixture of white and red hairs on the body?

Answer 19

Red Roan

Question 20

True or False? Most roans are much darker around the head, neck and legs.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Describe the calico hair coat color on horses.

Answer 21

Excessive white on legs and face. Splashes and roaning on belly and body

Question 22

What is the most common white pattern found on horses?

Answer 22

The minor white markings found on the face and legs

Question 23

List five facial markings

Answer 23

1) Star 2) Stripe 3) Blaze 4) Star, stripe, and snip 5) Snip 6) Bald face 7) Star and stripe

Question 24

What is a stocking?

Answer 24

Leg Marking: white from coronet to the knee

Question 25

What are distal spots?

Answer 25

Dark spots on a white coronet band

Question 26

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?

Answer 26

Coronet

Question 27

Does hoof color influence hoof strength

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Which breed seems especially susceptible to having an inherited white hoof or poorer quality?

Answer 28

Tobiano Pinto breeds