Grey horses with dense speckling are more likely to be heterozygous for grey. In the previous two posts, we looked at how the placement...

Even when greys are extensively fleabitten, some areas of the coat tend to have noticeably fewer spots. In the previous post, the grey...

Artists have a different way of looking at horse color than scientists, and that perspective can be useful. Twenty-two years ago, I did...

For those who attended the BreyerFest horse color seminar, here are examples of mapping on pintos. If you watched the seminar on...

This post gives an update on the new information site and links to new digital publications available for downloading. Over the years I...

"Citizen science" is where members of the public participate in scientific research. It is how this blog came to be, and something it...

The second release in the Equine Tapestry series – An Introduction to Colors and Patterns – is now available. The blog has been quiet for...

There are separate but equivalent mutations that can produce visually similar colors. This can complicate terminology and testing. As I...

So what do albino dogs have to do with horse color? Certainly the fact that there are “cremello” Dobermans is interesting, but why is...

Early observations about the classic splashed white pattern (SW1) from Valto Klemola based on his study of the Finnhorse stallion...

The silver dilution was mistakenly believed to have originated in the American Shetland Pony, but the mutation is much older. In the...

Color can tell a story about common ancestry, when that color arose as a one-time mutation. It is known that the two horses above share a...

Okay, maybe not love – but certainly stop worrying about it. Like a lot of people who find horse color fascinating, I once spent no small...