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...
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Jan 27
Where the fleas don’t bite
Even when greys are extensively fleabitten, some areas of the coat tend to have noticeably fewer spots. In the previous post, the grey...
Jan 23
The things we notice
Artists have a different way of looking at horse color than scientists, and that perspective can be useful. Twenty-two years ago, I did...
Jul 16, 2021
Mapping on pintos - part 1
For those who attended the BreyerFest horse color seminar, here are examples of mapping on pintos. If you watched the seminar on...
Jul 15, 2021
BreyerFest 2021
This post gives an update on the new information site and links to new digital publications available for downloading. Over the years I...
Dec 30, 2019
Citizen Science
"Citizen science" is where members of the public participate in scientific research. It is how this blog came to be, and something it...
Jul 18, 2014
The new full-color book is officially released
The second release in the Equine Tapestry series – An Introduction to Colors and Patterns – is now available. The blog has been quiet for...
Feb 13, 2014
Color and pattern variations
There are separate but equivalent mutations that can produce visually similar colors. This can complicate terminology and testing. As I...
Jan 15, 2014
Is this still a horse color blog?
So what do albino dogs have to do with horse color? Certainly the fact that there are “cremello” Dobermans is interesting, but why is...
Dec 30, 2013
Searching for another founder
Early observations about the classic splashed white pattern (SW1) from Valto Klemola based on his study of the Finnhorse stallion...
Dec 22, 2013
More on founders
The silver dilution was mistakenly believed to have originated in the American Shetland Pony, but the mutation is much older. In the...
Dec 20, 2013
Founders and mutants
Color can tell a story about common ancestry, when that color arose as a one-time mutation. It is known that the two horses above share a...
Aug 22, 2013
How I learned to stop worrying and love incorrect color terminology
Okay, maybe not love – but certainly stop worrying about it. Like a lot of people who find horse color fascinating, I once spent no small...
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