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Chestnut. The chestnut, also known as a night eye, [1] is a callosity on the body of a horse or other equine, found on the inner side of the leg above the knee on the foreleg and, if present, below the hock on the hind leg. It is believed to be a vestigial toe, and along with the ergot form the three toes of some other extinct Equidae.
A skewbald, "chestnut pinto" or "sorrel Paint" is a pinto horse with chestnut and white patches. Combinations of multiple dilution genes do not always have consistent names. For example, "dunalinos" are chestnuts with both the dun gene and one copy of the cream gene .
Aesculus hippocastanum, the horse chestnut, [1] [2] [3] is a species of flowering plant in the maple, soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is a large, deciduous, synoecious (hermaphroditic-flowered) tree. [4] It is also called horse-chestnut, [5] European horsechestnut, [6] buckeye, [7] and conker tree. [8]
Genetically, a chestnut horse is a horse without the ability to produce black pigment, while a black horse does not have dominant agouti to restrict their black pigment to points. The MC1R (extension) either binds alpha-MSH and signals for black and red pigment to be produced ('E' at extension), or it only signals for red ('e' at extension).
The Suffolk Horse, also historically known as the Suffolk Punch or Suffolk Sorrel, [1] is an English breed of draught horse. The first part of the name is from the county of Suffolk in East Anglia, and the word "punch" is an old English word for a short stout person. [2] It is a heavy draught horse which is always chestnut in colour.
A skewbald horse, chestnut with white patches. Skewbald is a colour pattern of horses.A skewbald horse has a coat made up of white patches on a non-black base coat, such as chestnut, bay, or any colour besides black coat.
However, unlike chestnuts, palomino is inherently a heterozygous condition and thus cannot be true-breeding. Furthermore, even the lightest chestnut will retain "red" character in the hair, rather than gold. Gold champagne vs. palomino: the action of the Champagne gene on chestnut was for many years called pumpkin-skinned palomino. However ...
Photo of Misty of Chincoteague taken on 12 June 1969 by Dr. Joseph Spies for his book, Wild Ponies of Chincoteague.Misty was 23 years old. Misty would serve as a conformational example of the "Traditional Type", or "Classic Type", of Chincoteague Pony in terms of anatomy: A solid stock pony type that was sound, with some flaws that were typical for range-bred horses, such as having a blocky ...