Hi all!

I'm confused about colors of horses!!! So I decided to ask you good people about this: The difference between "piebald", "skewbald", "pinto", "overo" and "tobiano". I mean seriously...everywhere I looked...there were different definitions.... So confusing!!

Please help!

Anna

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your mixing colours and breeds

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(formally clare7577)

Piebald is black and white, skewbald is any other colour and white, pinto, overo and tobiano are the names for different types of patterns/base colours of coloured horses.

shortbackandsides - she isnt mixing colours and breeds - moody mare is correct piebald is black and white and skewbald is any other colour and white and pinto is the american term for a coloured horse then overo, tobiano, sabino etc are the names of the inherited coat pattern distributions.

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Overo, tobiano, sabino are usually linked with the paint horses where as piebald and skewbald are colours in other type of breeds

There's quite a useful guide here which should get you started (i've got it bookmarked!!):

Horse Colours And Patterns

Hope that helps

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Thanks a lot everybody! This was definitely helpful

Anna

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