Mosaicism in horses - part 2
The bleach spot on the hip of this horse is the type of marking that often raises questions about whether the individual is a chimera. It...
top of page
Search
May 19
Unusual smokey cream
Double-dilute foals sometimes display irregular patches of darker coloring.
May 9
Mosaicism in horses - part 1
If not all brindle horses are chimeras, what are they? When unusual horses are posted on social media, a typical response is for someone...
May 3
Friday inspirations 7
I have been thinking a lot about the size and spacing of spotting patterns lately. It's something I notice in appaloosa patterns and also...
Apr 26
Friday Inspirations 6
One of the questions that came up in response to the posts on late greying was whether this could explain reports of early greying. More...
Apr 19
Friday inspirations 5
Several of this week's inspiration horses are unusual duns, so I thought I would start with a different kind of dun variation. One of the...
Apr 18
Historical Fjords
Old stud books show that the breed wasn't always exclusively dun. Norwegian Fjords do not vary much in color. It says something that I...
Apr 15
Fun with thermal cameras
We spent the day doing some tests to see if color had an impact on the surface temperature of horses. A few summers ago, I wrote a post...
Apr 12
The cause of slow greying
It has been thirteen years since I made a series of posts about a group of late-greying horses. At the time, an unusual PRE...
Apr 11
Another unusual grey
An archived post from December 13, 2011 Back in July, I posted about an unusual grey Connemara stallion (Ponies don’t read). There I...
Apr 11
Ponies don't read
An archived post from July 5, 2011 Rules books, that is. I think if someone did a word cloud for the manuscript for the horse color book,...
Mar 11
An unusual Clydesdale
A friend recently shared a picture of this Clydesdale mare, Olde Tyme I. M. Nina ("Nina"). Her trainer, Jen Hemphill of Rolling Thunder...
Mar 7
Are blood marks "clusters of fleabites"?
If you do a web search on bloody shoulders, you will likely come across the claim that these markings are “concentrated areas of...
Mar 1
Friday inspirations 4
When I began work on the first Equine Tapestry books, I was humbled by how people generously shared information about their breeds. One...
Feb 23
Friday inspirations 3
The first image for this week’s post comes from Heather Forrest. It was taken at the 2023 Scottish Open for the Icelandic Horse. It is...
Feb 16
Friday inspirations 2
Although I said to expect randomness in the Friday Inspiration posts, this week’s group of horses does have a theme. My feature photo is...
Feb 14
Colors of fleabitten greys
One of the things that jumps out about fleabitten greys is how red the speckles are. It was noticeable in the pictures of the Arabian...
Feb 9
Friday inspirations
I have always had one unbreakable rule for the blog: no photos without permission. Unless the copyright period has passed or the owner...
Feb 6
Fleabitten Greys with "rub marks"
I am going to take a slight detour before we look at the actual colors of fleabites. I wanted to point out a feature that observant...
Jan 29
Dense Fleabitten Patterns
Grey horses with dense speckling are more likely to be heterozygous for grey. In the previous two posts, we looked at how the placement...
bottom of page