Jul 16, 2021Mapping on pintos - part 1For those who attended the BreyerFest horse color seminar, here are examples of mapping on pintos. If you watched the seminar on...
Jul 15, 2021BreyerFest 2021This post gives an update on the new information site and links to new digital publications available for downloading. Over the years I...
Dec 30, 2019Citizen Science"Citizen science" is where members of the public participate in scientific research. It is how this blog came to be, and something it...
Jul 19, 2014The new full-color book is officially releasedThe second release in the Equine Tapestry series – An Introduction to Colors and Patterns – is now available. The blog has been quiet for...
Feb 13, 2014Color and pattern variationsThere are separate but equivalent mutations that can produce visually similar colors. This can complicate terminology and testing. As I...
Jan 15, 2014Is this still a horse color blog?So what do albino dogs have to do with horse color? Certainly the fact that there are “cremello” Dobermans is interesting, but why is...
Dec 30, 2013Searching for another founderEarly observations about the classic splashed white pattern (SW1) from Valto Klemola based on his study of the Finnhorse stallion...
Dec 23, 2013More on foundersThe silver dilution was mistakenly believed to have originated in the American Shetland Pony, but the mutation is much older. In the...
Dec 20, 2013Founders and mutantsColor 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...
Aug 22, 2013How I learned to stop worrying and love incorrect color terminologyOkay, maybe not love – but certainly stop worrying about it. Like a lot of people who find horse color fascinating, I once spent no small...