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"Medicine hat": An unusual type of Pinto or Paint coloring where the horse has dark ears and poll (like a hat on the head), but surrounded on all sides of the head and neck by white. [ 5 ] Shield: A dark Pinto marking where the horse has a dark colored chest, surrounded completely by white on the shoulders, legs, belly and neck.
Some characteristics of a Tovero colored horse include: Dark pigmentation around the ears, sometimes called a "Medicine Hat" or a "War bonnet" Dark pigmentation around the ears, expanding to cover the forehead and/or eyes. Isolated "shield" dark markings completely surrounded by white, particularly on the face or chest. One or both eyes blue.
In other contexts, "solid" may be used to describe a horse with no white markings. Medicine hat: An uncommon pattern, the poll and ears are dark, surrounded completely by white, a true "medicine hat" pinto or paint usually has a predominantly white body, sometimes with dark coloration by the flanks, chest, and above the eyes.
A white marking on the crest of a horse's neck was created by freeze branding, a form of marking for identification that is nearly painless. Freeze brand detail on shoulder of horse In stark contrast to traditional hot-iron branding, freeze branding uses an iron that has been chilled with a coolant such as dry ice or liquid nitrogen .
Overo refers to several genetically unrelated pinto coloration patterns of white-over-dark body markings in horses, and is a term used by the American Paint Horse Association to classify a set of pinto patterns that are not tobiano.
This horse's dorsal stripe is most likely caused by non-dun 1. Less distinct primitive markings can also occur on non-dun horses, even in breeds which are not known to have any dun individuals. The most common primitive marking found is a dorsal stripe. [1] Most non-dun horses do not have darker primitive markings, but some do.
Horses who are heterozygous for Sabino-1 (SB1/sb1) generally have a distinctive white spotting pattern of irregular, rough-edged white patches that usually include two or more white feet or legs, a blaze, spots or roaning on the belly or flanks, and jagged margins to white markings. [10] [11] Horses homozygous for the Sabino 1 allele (SB1/SB1 ...
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 ...