color pattern ...any one know what this is ?

Norah · Apr 4, 2012

This is the funniest color I have ever seen , and with every day she gets more spots ! Peach is an ASPC mare , 4 years old in June . I clipped her 2 weeks ago ( more or less) to treat with lice , she is becomming more spotty , her skin is soft and smooth , theses spots are black hairs . She is a liver Chestnut on her paper . Anyone even see spots like this before ' I treated her with ivermectan paste , powder for lice , and Lavender oil spray , she has no eggs or lice anywhere on her body right now. Also feeding her black sunflower oil , and a oil made for horses skin and coat 20 or so Alpen herbs in a synergy , blend of oils ... would love oppinions she was clipped with a 10 ... so pretty short

Norah · Apr 4, 2012

I dont think she is a liver chestnut ... I think she is a dark bay , but what the heck are these spots about ?Dam and sire ...Instant replay, and Animated Animal ...Michigan

paintponylvr · Apr 4, 2012

To me, clipped, she looks like the big horses do (Quarter and Paint horses) that are roans. She looks like a bay roan, but I'm not sure - I'm already discovering that Shetland roaning patterns are NOTHING like what I was used to from the working horse world.

IF she is a bay roan - those darker spots are one of two things or a combo of both - ... great I've forgotten the one term but it's something like birds' egg spotting (? - or liver spotting) and the 2nd is just darker hair growth where her skin has been damaged. Roan horses in pasture often have LOTS of dark marks on them - from scratching, from nicks and cuts, from bites and kicks etc. Here is a link to a Yahoo picture of a blue roan (black horse with true roan pattern) and the same darker spots...http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3Droan%2Bhorses&w=160&h=120&imgurl=www.bing.com%2Fimages%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Droan%2Bhorses%23focal%3Dc460f5839649a9d40ddc5e114d5a18d1%26furl%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252f3.bp.blogspot.com%252f_9jr7tboJTaE%252fS9L9l7y_wmI%252fAAAAAAAAADY%252fejdz2FbmuMQ%252fs1600%252fBlueMoon06-02.jpg&size=&name=search&rcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fimages%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Droan%2Bhorses%23focal%3Dc460f5839649a9d40ddc5e114d5a18d1%26furl%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252f3.bp.blogspot.com%252f_9jr7tboJTaE%252fS9L9l7y_wmI%252fAAAAAAAAADY%252fejdz2FbmuMQ%252fs1600%252fBlueMoon06-02.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fimages%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Droan%2Bhorses%23focal%3Dc460f5839649a9d40ddc5e114d5a18d1%26furl%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252f3.bp.blogspot.com%252f_9jr7tboJTaE%252fS9L9l7y_wmI%252fAAAAAAAAADY%252fejdz2FbmuMQ%252fs1600%252fBlueMoon06-02.jpg&p=roan+horses&type=&no=3&tt=115&oid=http%3A%2F%2Fts2.mm.bing.net%2Fimages%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D4857784605737705%26id%3D81b6def149584107c134744e0f8a1135&tit=horse+that+is+blue+roan+is+black+or+gray+with+white+hairs+mixed+in+...&sigr=16f18qovv&sigi=168g939mr&sigb=11lnkq22j&fr=yfp-t-701-1

Funny, I didn't know Michigan's had roan blood lines... who is Animated Animal?

paintponylvr · Apr 4, 2012

paintponylvr · Apr 4, 2012

A lot of western trainers don't like roan horses because of that stand out factor (bloopers are more easily remembered, too - LOL). Others love the ones with good ability and develop it to the HILT - Pepto Boonsmal and all of his offspring are good representitives of that (roan cutting horses - really hot a few years ago - don't know about right now).

Norah · Apr 5, 2012

we found out what it is extreme bend or spots in sutty colored horses in dark bays and liver chestnuts : )

brasstackminis · Apr 7, 2012

I would bet that those "spots" are nothing more than the new summer coat coming in ahead of her regualr summer coat in response to her sores from lice healing. I see this a lot on my horses when they get a bite from another horse before their regular shed. Give her a few weeks or so to shed her winter woolies (will be hard to see since she is clipped) and I bet she will even out. Winter coat looks a different color when clipped then summer coat clipped. If you had a picture of her before she was clipped it would be eaiser to tell her color before you clip.

muffntuf · Apr 7, 2012

No Lewella knows the technical name, we call them oil spots and I have a sorrel mare with them. They are permanent, not something that comes in before the summer coat.