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...
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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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Jun 13, 2022
Vascular patterns in dappling
Not only do dapples echo the pattern of capillary clusters, but other vascular details are visible on dappled horses. In the previous...
Jun 3, 2022
Dapples are hot!
When it comes to understanding dappling as a pattern of light and dark, the key is temperature. Darkly dappled greys like the Eriskay...
Jun 1, 2022
Dapple variations
Dappling is an almost universally popular aspect of horse color. There are distinct types of dapples with different causes. For many of...
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