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Part 6.White patterns not including Appaloosa patterns (that will be a different set of horses).
Side note on terminology:
Piebald means "Black and White", and can refer to any of the above patterns save Roan and Rabicano.
Skewbald means "Any colour other than black and White", and can refer to any of the above patters save Roan and Rabicano. Skewbald can refer to bay, chestnut, palomino, champagne, etc.
Another side note on terminology:
A Paint is a breed of horse. Paints descend from American Quarter Horse, Paint, or Thoroughbred blood ONLY. It should not be used to refer to other breeds of horse.
A Pinto is a colour pattern. A pinto can be any breed of horse that carries the genetics for the patterns. There are pinto Saddlebreds, pinto Shetland ponies, pinto Gypsy Vanners, etc.
Part One: The Base Colors [link]
Part Two: The Cream Gene [link]
Part Three: The Champagne Gene [link]
Part Four: The Dun Gene [link]
Part Five: The Silver Gene [link]
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A great quick reference guide, it really helps me explain to other people what all the horsey colours actually are. Thank you for your lovely work.
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You're welcome! I'm just happy people find them useful
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Lovely reference.
Alsooooooo Frame, Sabino, and Splash are all Overo patterns. Then we have Dominant White and Manchado (which may be a severely recessive Overo pattern or an environmental factor...with more research we may find out).
Blue eyes are caused only ever by double cream dilutions, Frame, Splash.
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Thanks
Around here, when most people say "Overo", they mean Frame 99.9% of the time. I'm aware that it refers to a few different patterns, but for simplicity of reference and to make the most sense to the layman, I'm using it in that context and calling the other types of 'overo' by their other names (Sabino, Splash). The blue eyes on the sabino was A) me being lazy and not changing the template to the dark-eyed one and B) the fact that a lot of Sabino horses also carry Splash and thus can have blue eyes and C) I just like them on Sabinos. XD
Like I said, this is a VERY VERY generalized reference meant for people just looking for "What does this colour look like because I want to colour it." or "I coloured this thing, what colour should I call it?" and not meant as a super detailed scientific document. I'm sure some things are also outdated since it's a few years old. For example, none of the references I used then mentioned just how darn common Splash actually is. Eventually I might update it but I'm still really lazy so it probably won't happen lol
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Thak you for your beautiful work about Horses Colors.
Is the best thah I found!!!
Congratrulations.
Dr. Carlos Rangel
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You're welcome, and thanks
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I love these pictures!
I added it to my favourites. All parts.
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excellent work on all of them 
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You're quite welcome, I'm glad they're so helpful
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Good work!!
Will have to do something simular in a month or to for a project of mine and it will have to exsplain enough about horse color genetics enough for not horse people to get XD.
Only think you might add is references to maximum sabinos, dominate white (there are 7 different ones as far as I know), and Pearl, which is simular to cream but only shows if there is 2 copies or combined with at least one cream or champagne gene (its though to be a mutation or variation of cream but a horse can carry 2 pearl and 2 cream - its been associated with Lusitanos if I remeber right but has been noted elsewhere - they are often mistaken for creams or not at alls ince 1 copy on a black does not show at all). Then there is Brown/ Seal Brown (a vatiation on Bay). Seal Brown can often be mistaken for Bay, but it is a separate gene. Some look almost Black but have brown in certain place, too tired right now to remember specifics but it works on a black bas the same as bay does without the black legs and points, its more of a all round modifier but has distinct areas it can be lighter/darker on. The base colors then would be Chestnut, Black, Bay, Brown. Miscellaneous modifiers Gray - the 'white' type, dappled, flea-bittin with addition of the bloody shoulder only possible on Arab and descendants, Flaxen (only effects red based mane and tail), Bend'or spots, and Brindle. I know I am forgetting one more but like said am tired and close to my bed-time.
Peace and Carrots.
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Yep, I'm still planning a couple more, just got sidetracked by real life stuff xD There's a "Modifiers" in the works for Grey, Sooty, Mealy, Flaxen, Brindle, etc. and maybe a "Markings" too for traditional leg/face markings. And if I'm feeling REALLY ambitious, a "Misc." one for manchado, dominant white, pearl and the like. We'll see how that goes lol
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You should put the gene codes on the picture for each marking. (ie. for black it would be EE or Ee) Someone like me would need to know that for the future...
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They are for the base colours and written in layman's terms for the simple dilutions, but some of the various white patterns are REALLY complicated, caused by multiple genes, and in some cases not fully understood, which is why the genetic codes aren't there.
But for the easier ones: TO = Tobiano, O = Overo, SB1 = Sabino1, R = Roan. Tovero is a horse that carries both Tobiano and Overo genes. Splashed white and Rabicano genetics aren't completely understood.
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OH! That explains it... Haha sorry for bothering you... Im trying to figure out what genes my horses would have, so yeah... 
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i featured this series in my group journal for refrences of coat colors
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And here are the pintos! I just left a comment on your VHR thread requesting them. Beautiful work.
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You should do things like birdcatcher spots, tetriarch spots, bendor (smut/grease spots) bloodmarks and bloody shoulders.
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I'm planning on it. There's going to be another one for modifiers (mealy, sooty, flaxen and grey), one for appaloosa patterns, and one for "other" (manchado, bend or spots, badger face, etc). I'll probably do another for leg and face markings as well. Don't worry the series is far from done XD
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If you need the genotypes for each colour just say. I am doing equine genetics in university right now.
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Awesome! I was going to include those, but I couldn't be bothered to work with the superscript for things like Ccr so I just put the layman's terms XD
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Yeah. Not like most people need them unless they intend to breed for colour.
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I couldn't help but notice the sabino has blue eyes. There is no evidence to suggest sabino gives blue eyes.
Blue eyes come from frame overo and splash white and double dilutes, and on the topic of double dilutes, your cream gene one is lacking blue eyes on the cremello, perlino and smoky cream. Hope you don't mind me nitpicking over that. XD;
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I don't mind lol I changed my template halfway through to remove the black eyes, which is why the others don't really have an eye color.
There are plenty of cases in which a sabino horse does have blue eyes: [link] , [link] , and [link] for example. It's definitely not unheard of, and I like blue eyes
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