Tri-colored pintos

[Marty]

THANK YOU DREAMWEAVER FARM!!!!!!!!! I thought I was going to loose my mind here!

Do you want to consider that your horse is pinta-loosa at all?

Now then, technically, I beleive that some people would say that appaloosa spotting is really pinto markings.

Does anyone agree with that one??????

Cause I am here to testify that I know for a fact that an app can have both brown and black spots on the body cause I flat road a boat load of them in my day, and I was not blind as a bat back then either, so with that said, why couldn't a pinto do it too?

And furthermore if anyone really wants to talk tri-color what about those stripped brindles cause I know where you can find a whole mess of them.........how do you like them apples? hehe

I should learn how to drink and get drunk someday.......

CAVE, ANYONE???

 

[tagalong]

Yes - I have seen leopard Appies with different coloured spots.... but the reddish or lighter ones in those particular horses' cases could still have been a type of countershading.

Dreamweaver - that looks like a Bend Or spot - larger than what one usually sees - although I know of a chestnut QH mare who sported a huge one on her right flank, hip and butt.... they are interesting colour variations peculiar to chestnuts/sorrels and palominos....

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Bend Or spots...

 

[Sandee]

Dreamweaver - LOVE that stallion of yours. I've never seen such a big spot - truly a "horse of another color!"

I had forgotten the "bend or" spot discription and was wondering what was going on with my bay pinto filly that also has a (small) black spot in the white area on her side.

This forum is so great for getting answers to questions like this. Even if some get a off topic and sometimes a bit "hot under the collar", I really enjoy it.

So Marty, don't go hide in a cave- just hang in there and we all get more information on these great little horses! :aktion033:

 

[lyn_j]

[SIZE=14pt]I had a chestnut arabian mare with the Bend Or spots too... I dont consider her a tri color.[/SIZE]

Lyn

 

[KrisP]

I have a stallion that is a true sorrel with bend or spots and bird catcher spots, makes for quite an interesting color combination, my friend that is an appy breeder is just SURE it's appy color (nope, it's not) he's sorrel with the spots on his hip, rump.

krisp

 

[xxs]

Boy has THIS subject gone 29 directions! LOL!!!

Marty, I have never seen a pinto with three colors until I just saw Dreamweavers! wow, Dreamweaver..that is some color!

I do know that donkeys come in tri color..will see if I can find a pic. ..here ya go! http://www.spottedass.com/photos.htm

they are partway down the page.

The different colors on an Appy are not countershading. Windy (in my avatar) has black and chocolate spots on his rump..and they are right next to, and overlapping each other! The chocolate is like Hershey color. He also has silver spots all over the front part of him, and his legs. His son, Jack is a black bay, and has black spots on his blanket and on the rest of him too...but he has a "tan" spot right in the middle of his back! It this was counter shading, it would be black..or at least dark.. also.

 

[Mijke]

We've had an appy mare that had different kind of colored spots on her body.

Here are some pics of her (the only one I have left after a computer crash

: ). You can see the different colors. She had black spots, darkbrown spots and some lightbrown spots (especially on her butt).

The lady who bought her did this especcially because of the 3 colors... I remember because at that time she requested special pics of the spots

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[tagalong]

The different colors on an Appy are not countershading. Windy (in my avatar) has black and chocolate spots on his rump..and they are right next to, and overlapping each other!

xxs - note that I mentioned that in those particular horses' cases ...as in the two appies I was speaking about - they did have the coloured spots line up in the right place for countershading to be considered. Such may not always be the case. And maybe those two appies were just very clever about arranging their spots... :lol:

 

[crponies]

Those spotted ***** are pretty neat looking. Something interesting that I learned lately about brindles, Marty, is that sometimes it is because they are chimeras. In other words, a mare was pregnant with twins who fused together and became one horse! There are two different DNAs present in these individuals which has caused problems for verifying parentage. Weird, huh? I think I read that in the forum at equinecolor.com.