1. H1.1 Horse Care
H1.2 Colours
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2. Colours Overview Black Chestnut Brown Grey Bay Roans Palomino
Buckskin/Dun
Colours Video
Appaloosa
Appaloosa Video
Paint/Pinto
Paint/Pinto Video
Piebald
Skewbald
Leg markings
Head/Facial Markings
Brands
There are various colours that horses come in. Some are particularly rare and others are more common with certain breeds.
Markings are unique and individual to each horse, these are a distinctive white areas on a solid base colour. A horse is born with markings and they will stay the same for the entirety of the horse’s life.

3. Black
A solid colour with black body, legs, mane, tail, muzzle, flanks and ears

4. Chestnut
The chestnut colour of a horse can vary in intensity. This colour comprises of a shade of red or reddish brown body and legs with a simular mane and tail which can be darker or lighter in colour, but never black. They can have white markings which may have pink skin underneath.

5. Brown
A black to dark brown body with brown areas around the flanks, muzzle and eyes.

6. Grey
Usually born black, white hair gradually increases in the coat as they get older starting with the face and legs. One of the parents of a grey horse is always a grey

7. Bay
Light brown to dark red/brown body with black mane, tail and legs. Bay horses are characterized by a reddish brown body colour with a black mane and tail. The edges of the ears and the lower legs are also black. These are referred to as black points. Bay horses can have white markings, except for the breed known as a Cleveland Bay, which is only allowed to have a small white marking on the head to be registered with the stud book.

8. Roans Blue/Black Roan Red/Strawberry Roan Bay Roan
A solid base colour such as black, chestnut or bay mixed with white hairs. The head, legs, mane and tail are the solid base colour.
Bay Roan

9. Palomino
Golden colour body with white mane and tail.

10. Buckskin/Dun
A gold or tan coloured coloured coat and black mane, tail and legs (black points). Dun coloured horses have sandy yellow to reddish brown coats with a black stripe down the middle of their back (known as a dorsal stripe) and the mane and tail darker than the coat and the legs and head darker still.

11. Colours Video

12. Appaloosa
This is also a breed. A spotted colour of white and another base colour such as black, bay or chestnut. There are 5 different patterns recognised:- blanket, leopard, few spot leopard, snow flake, roan and frost.
Leopard

13. Appaloosa (cont.)
Blanket
Few Spot Leopard

14. Appaloosa (cont.)
Snowflake
Frost

15. Appaloosa Video

16. Paint/Pinto
Irregular patches of any basic body colour mixed with white.

17. Paint/Pinto Video

18. Piebald
Depending upon which country you are from you may refer to piebald and skewbald differently from someone from another country. To the British a piebald is a horse with black and white colouring and a skewbald is a horse made up of white and any colour except black (black in the mane and tail excepted)

19. Skewbald
Depending upon which country you are from you may refer to piebald and skewbald differently from someone from another country. To the British a piebald is a horse with black and white colouring and a skewbald is a horse made up of white and any colour except black (black in the mane and tail excepted)
Skewbald- sometimes referred to as tri-coloured

20. Leg Markings White heel. White coronet. White half pastern
White pastern.
White sock.
White partial/half stocking.
White stocking
Leg markings are described by how far up the leg the white goes. Horses may have a combination of markings on different legs e.g. socks on the front legs and stockings on the back legs.
Ermine Spots/Markings:-
These are often seen in leg markings and are black or dark coloured spots in a white marking.

21. Head/Facial Markings Star. Stripe. Snip. Blaze. Baldy/white face
These are described by shape and location. Some horses may have a combination of facial markings e.g. star and a snip or star and stripe.

22. Brands Stud brand The number foal and year it was born
Branding is a man-made method of identifying horses (therefore horses are not born with brands).
Brands include information regarding the stud the horse was bred at, the year of its birth and the number foal it was for that year.
This is an example of the stud or breeders brand, unique to that stud or breeder.
Here is an example of the numbering system. “33” is the number this foal dropped in the breeding season. And ‘1” is an indicator of the year it was born. For example 1991, Other information may need to be sort from teeth and physical development to help gauge the year of birth.
The number foal and year it was born

23. Brands (cont.) Freeze brand Fire brand There are two types of branding
Freeze branding-
Done using a very cold branding iron. This method alters the colour pigmentation of the hair. The hair will grow back white, permanently
Fire branding-
This type uses a very hot branding iron. The area branded scabs, producing scar tissue and usually very little hair
will grow back. This type of brand can be much harder to
read.
Freeze brand
Fire brand

24. After the Video Tutorial
View the Power Point Presentation and see if you can discuss each slide
View the Video Tutorial again, if necessary
Read the Workbook
Do the Homework/Extension Lesson
Complete the Online Quizzes
Complete the Practical Assessments
Join Phone Tutorials if available
Listen to Phone Tutorial Recordings

25. References Webpages:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appaloosa

26. References (cont.) Images:-
houston.olx.com/black-friesian-for-sale-iid-4.
lacyfordstallions.net/mares
equiki.wikidot.com/buckskin
dmredman.blogspot.com/2007/02/foundation-appa...
peacefulvalleyfarmsbeltedacres.com/ApploosaCo...

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