Zorse Colors

A look at zorse animals around the world and in a variety of different colors.

The zorse is the offspring of a zebra stallion and horse mare. Not only is this just interesting, but they can produce some of the most spectacular coat coloration of the entire equine family. Obviously an uncommon mix and probably more often found as the result of a breeding program than in the wild. Although one or two of the examples below look like they might be feral. This is one coloration that can come from any base, modifier, dilution or white pattern. These color genetics cannot be passed on or bred for as (like the mule) hybrid animals are almost always sterile.

Example Notes

Obviously we’ve put the most spectacular first. The pinto zorse is called Eclyse and she comes from Germany. Of all zorse colors, white patterns produce perhaps the most interesting results. This leads us to example number two, which we think is a sooty bay appaloosa, but could easily have that wrong. It could just be part tiger. For each color example we took a guess at the horse part of their genetics.

Funky zorse
Bay or maybe buckskin pinto
Funky zorse
Sooty bay appaloosa
Chestnut zorse
Probably chestnut, legs look brown not black
Bay zorse
Bay or brown
Chestnut zorse
A more obvious chestnut
Seal zorse
The brown muzzle indicates seal brown
zorse
Probably yellow dun, maybe buckskin
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Pinto zorse image from Fährtenleser under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; appaloosa zorse image from Theo Stikkelman under the CC 2.0 license; chestnut zony image from Kumana @ Wild Equines under the CC BY 2.0 license; chestnut zorse image from Keera Russell under the CC BY 2.0 license; seal zorse image from shelly2dogs under the CC BY-NC 2.0 license; saddled zorse image from CRC, University of Edinburgh under the CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license;

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