Mapping on pintos - part 1
For those who attended the BreyerFest horse color seminar, here are examples of mapping on pintos. If you watched the seminar on...
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- Jul 15, 2021
BreyerFest 2021
This post gives an update on the new information site and links to new digital publications available for downloading. Over the years I...
- Dec 30, 2019
Citizen 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, 2014
The new full-color book is officially released
The second release in the Equine Tapestry series – An Introduction to Colors and Patterns – is now available. The blog has been quiet for...
- Feb 13, 2014
Color and pattern variations
There are separate but equivalent mutations that can produce visually similar colors. This can complicate terminology and testing. As I...
- Jan 15, 2014
Is 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, 2013
Searching for another founder
Early observations about the classic splashed white pattern (SW1) from Valto Klemola based on his study of the Finnhorse stallion...
- Dec 22, 2013
More on founders
The silver dilution was mistakenly believed to have originated in the American Shetland Pony, but the mutation is much older. In the...
- Dec 20, 2013
Founders and mutants
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...
- Aug 22, 2013
How I learned to stop worrying and love incorrect color terminology
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...