Mixed Color Vocabulary

Below I have compiled a short vocabulary list of mixed colors on horses. 

I already have one post in regards to color so if you would like information on Bay, Buckskin, Palomino, or Black colors please see the following: Bay-Buckskin-Palomino-Black.

Leopard – Spots on a white coat similar to Dalmatian or leopard spots. These do not have to cover the entire horse, rather leopard spotting can just show up on portions of the coat.

Piebald / Pinto – A horse with patches of two colors. Typically white and black.

Skewbald – A horse with patches of white and another color (typically not black).

Red Roan / Strawberry Roan – A chestnut colored horse with white or gray mixed in, giving it an almost dusty reddish appearance.

Bay Roan – A horse with a bay (brown) colored coat with white or gray mixed in.

Blue Roan – A horse with a black colored coat with white or light gray mixed in. This is often sometimes applied to horses with a dark gray or similar coat with white or light gray mixed in which gives the horse the misty blue hue.

Rabicano / White Ticking – Roaning in a specific area of the horse. A horse with this coloring will also have white at the top of the tail.

Sabino Color – White spotting on horses caused by a specific gene that can be tested for. The sabino color gene can sometimes be recognized by a roaning pattern on the edges of the white spots.

(*Please note these are not my pictures.)