Equine Color Markings

Pheomelanin

basic pigment of horse and produces red or reddish brown color

Eumalin

basic pigment of horses and produces black

Bay, Brown, Chestnut, Black, White

5 basic horse coat (B,B,C,B,W)

Bay

basic color of horse that is reddish brown or brown with black points like its main, tails, ears, edges and lower legs

Aguoti gene and Extension gene

Bay color of horse has this 2 dominant gene

Light bay

type of bay that is more yellow

Dark bay

type of bay that is more red

Mahogany Bay

type of bay that is the darkest of bay

Black

basic color of horses that has black body, eyes and points

Homozygous black with dominant extension gene

genes of Black colored horse

Friesian, Murgese, and Ariegeois

Breeds with black coats

Brown

basic color of horse that is brown, and is a result of black base color with similar agouti gene

Seal brown

type of brown that is full black but have tan or brown hairs

Chestnut

basic color of horse that is reddish to brown coat, with main and tail the same or lighter than coat

Chestnut

this basic color of horse has absence of true black hairs

Recessive extension gene

genes of Chestnut horse

Basic chestnut

type of chestnut that is solid copper-reddish coat, mane and tail close to the same shade as the body coat

Liver/Dark Chestnut

this type of Chestnut is very dark reddish brown, common in morgan horse

Morgan

what breed of horse the Liver/dark chestnut is common in

Flaxen Chestnut

type of chestnut where manes and tails are lighter than the body

White

basic color of horse where born predominantly and stays white throughout its life

Dominant white genes

genes of a white colored horse and is a rare one

White

basic color of a horse where it is unpigmented skin, white hair, dark or blue eyes, is different from albino

Depigmentation phenotypes

this phenotype has white markings, white patterns or dominant white

Dominant white

this color coat has alleles producing pink skinned all-white horses with brown eyes

Lethal White Syndrome

what syndrome causes frame allele on endothelin receptor B, where the signs are non functioning colon, no meconium fatal within hours to days

Dun (buckskin)

this is a coat color that is ancestral or wild type of horses

Dun gene

this gene from this coat color is a dilution gene affecting both red and black pigments

Dun

this coat color lightens the body coat with point coloration of mane, tail, ears and legs

Dun

type of dun where dominant hair is some shade of yellow, stripe down their back

Classic dun

type of dun aka bay dun or zebra dun, common type is tan or goldy body with black mane, tail and markings

Red dun

type of dun aka claybank light tan coat with reddish points and marking

Claybank

red dun is also known as

Grullo

type of dun aka "Blue dun" horse with roan characteristics

Blue dun

Grullo is also know as what

Grey

basic color of horse where progressive depigmentation of the colored hairs of the coat

Autosomal dominant gene and one copy of gray allele

Genes of gray horse

Homozygous gray

meaning of GG

Heterozygous gray

meaning of Gg

Grey

basic color of hrose where it is born dark and changes to dapple to age 2-5, lighter at 8-10 years

Steel gray

type of gray that is generally black but has white hair

Flea bitten

type of gray with small specks of black present

Silver grey

type of grey where more white is visible

Palomino

a coat color where it is a genetic golden color

Cream gene

genetics of Palomino that single allele of dilution gene works with chestnut base coat and is incomplete dominance

True Palomino

type of palomino that has no black points "newly minted coin"

Pinto

aka Calico or Paint or Spotted horses

Pinto

this type of coat color has more color in or coat in large irregular pacthes or spots, ex: small non white spots up to a size of a silver dollar

Piebald

type of pinto that has a black base coat called magpie

Skewbald

type of any pinto patterns (chestnut or bay) and white

Tricolored

type of pinto where there is 3 colors (bay, brown, black) and white

Tobiano

type of pinto pattern where dark color that covers one and both flanks, 4 legs are white, head marking should be solid

Overo

type of pinto pattern where white will not cross the back of the horse between the withers and tail, dark legs color is irregular scattered or splashy

Splashed White

type of pinto pattern where it is less common, splashed white coats horizontally oriented white marking, blue eyes, congenital deafness

Sabino

type of pinto pattern where white marking on the face and legs all the way up to a solid white horse, spotting pattern in between (high legs, belly spots)

Roan

type of coat color where any horse whose coat carries white hairs intermingled with on or more base colors

Rn alelle

genetics of the Roan coat where this allele dominantly inherited cannot skip generations

Blue Roan

type of roan with dark underlying coat (bluish cast)

Red Roan

type of roan with chestnut and bay roan aka Strawberry Roan

Star

pattern of the head where it is a desginated small, clearly defined area of white hairs on the forehead

Snip

pattern of the head where a small patch of white which runs over the muzzle, often the lips

Stripe

pattern of the head where long narrow band of white working from the forehead down towards the muzzle

Blaze

pattern of the head where white strip down the face to the lips

Bald face

pattern of the head where white has over most of the flat surface of the face, often extending towards the cheeks

Star, Strip, Snip

what pattern combination is this

Star and Stripe

what pattern combination is this

Coronet

foot pattern with white stripe covering the coronet band

Pastern

foot pattern with white exxtends from the coronet to and including the pastern

Half Stocking

foot pattern white extends from the coronet to the middle of the cannon

Full stocking

foot pattern white extends from the coronet to and including the knee