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Some horse coat colors are distinguished by unique patterns. However, even for horses with coat colors that are arranged in a manner unique to each individual horse, these patterns are not called "markings." Some coat colors partially distinguished by unique patterning include: Bay: A horse coat color that features black point coloration on a ...
Brindle: One of the rarest colors in horses, characteristics are any base coat color with "zebralike" stripes, but the most common is a brown horse with faint yellowish markings. Usually linked to chimerism , [ 10 ] but one heritable brindle pattern that affects coat texture and color in a family of American Quarter Horses has been named ...
nd1/nd1: Horse is very slightly diluted and primitive markings are darker. nd1/nd2: Horse is not diluted and has faint primitive markings. nd2/nd2: Horse has undiluted coat color with no primitive markings. SLC36A1 Ch n: Champagne: A dominant dilution gene that creates freckled skin, amber or green-ish eyes, and gives a bronze cast to hair. The ...
Some non-dun horses may also show primitive markings, namely newborn foals and horses with the non-dun 1 gene. [1] [4] Primitive markings in horses are an example of atavism: preservation of or reversion to ancestral type. While primitive markings are closely linked with the dun coat colors, the variations of expression and presence in non-dun ...
The cream gene is responsible for a number of horse coat colors. Horses that have the cream gene in addition to a base coat color that is chestnut will become palomino if they are heterozygous, having one copy of the cream gene, or cremello, if they are homozygous. Similarly, horses with a bay base coat and the cream gene will be buckskin or ...
Colors and markings in horses Pages in category "Horse coat colors" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
Tobiano is a spotted color pattern commonly seen in pinto horses, produced by a dominant gene. The tobiano gene produces white-haired, pink-skinned patches on a base coat color. The coloration is almost always present from birth and does not change throughout the horse's lifetime, unless the horse also carries the gray gene.
Varnish roans are born with a dark base coat color, usually with some spotting. As the horse ages, white hairs increase over most of the body, and many spotted markings blur or fade. The varnish roan pattern often appears to spread from the white of any original markings. This color pattern is best known in the Appaloosa breed of horse.