Comments on: Horse Colors Pt. 5 – The Rare Colors

By: amber

amber — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:32:36 +0000

In reply to Kate. there are white horses a horse that carries to copies of the sb1 (sabino) is often completely white and is not albino.

By: Izzy

Izzy — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:04:29 +0000

OMG my fav horse breed is a hanaverian

By: Jackie

Jackie — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:19:04 +0000

In reply to Sophie. The chestnut could be displaying minimal tobiano. They don't usually have white on their head. And the horse doesn't need to show more white to be able to carry the gene. As for your second question, I did see a picture of a horse that was brown and black instead of white and black and this was caused by a mutation. And in a book about horse genetics I saw another picture of a bay horse with a completely black shoulder and forearm. The book explained it as a rare birthmark. So I would say it was possible

By: Jackie

Jackie — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:11:16 +0000

I have a question about a very rare color that I don’t even know if it truly exist. In bloody shoulder horses, the mark is usually red because the base color is usually either chestnut of bay. I’ve seen one bloody shoulder horse with a black shoulder. Since the color of the bloody shoulder is the base color, is there such thing as a yellow blood mark on a Palomino or a Buckskin? The mutation seems to come from the Arabian breed and and Arabian’s don’t come in those colors so I was wondering if it could exist at all

By: shannon

shannon — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:01:09 +0000

i have a true black solid aqha mare bred to a black and white tobino i now have a grullo colt he was a dun calor when born with dorsal strip wither stripes and slight face masking and 3 white socks and a star now he is a like smokie b lack with white hairs coming in his tail mainly top of tail he is 6 months old what calor is he please

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:31:13 +0000

I REALLY don’t want to start an argument, but I’m pretty sure dun is actually quite common, and palomino to! Albino horses do exsist in colour, although a dominent albino gene has not been found yet. True albino coloured horses actually carry the dominent white overo gene, AKA lethal white overo syndrome, where affected foals are born pure white and die within 72 hours of birth.

By: Charoum

Charoum — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:40:21 +0000

In reply to Isabelle.

@Isabella;; not all grulla horses are ‘grayish blue’ I’ve seen quite a few red based grulla’s.

Albino’s do NOT exist among horses.