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There are many different colors and markings of the horse. Here they are.

Here are most of the colors of the horse:

-gray: This is black skin with white and black hairs. White horses are really called gray. The coat lightens with age.

-flea-bitten: This is a gray coat which develops small dark specks with age.

-palomino: This is a gold coat, the color of a brand-new penny, with a white mane and tail.

-bay: This is a red-brown to dark brown-gold coat with a black mane, tail, and legs.

-light bay: This is the same as bay except that the coat is lighter which is caused by yellow or chestnut hairs.

-bright bay: This the same as bay except that the coat also has red hairs.

-chestnut: The coat has reddish gold shades.

-liver chestnut: The coat has dark, liver-colored hairs which are almost the color of bloodstone.

-yellow-dun: This is black skin with yellow hairs.

-blue-dun: This is black skin with grayish or black hairs.

-brown: This is a coat which is a mixture of black and brown with black legs, mane, and tail.

-bay brown: This is a mixture of bay and brown, mainly brown, with black muzzle, legs, mane, and tail.

-blue roan: This is a black or black-brown body with white hairs which give it a bluish tinge.

-red roan: This is a bay or bay-brown body with white hairs which give it a red tinge.

-black: This is black pigment throughout the coat, legs, mane, and tail.

-dapple gray: This is a gray coat with rings of dark hair. These rings disappear with age.

-skewbald: This has large irregular patches of white and any other color besides black. Skewbald and piebald are either described as ovaro and tobiano. Ovaro is a basic solid coat with large, irregular splashes of white over it. what this means that the coat is really any color besides whit ena d white is splashed on it. Tobiano is a white base coat with large, irregular patches of solid color. What this means is that the coat is really white with any other color splashed on it.

-piebald: This has large, irregular patches of white and black.

-appaloosa: The 5 principal patterns of appaloosa coloring are: 1) blanket: white over the hips with or without dark spots 2) marble: red or blue roan with dark coloring on the edges of the body and a frost pattern in the middle 3) leopard: white with dark spots 4) snowflake: dominant spotting over the hips and 5) frost: white speckling on a dark ground The hooves are distinguished by vertical stripes.

I hope you have learned a lot about the different colors of the horse. Now for markings.

Star

Stripe

Snip

Blaze

White Face

White Muzzle

Leg markings are usually white.

Ermine Marks: This is a mark around the coronet.

Sock: The white extends from the hoof to the kneebut does not encompass that joint.

Stocking: When the white extends over the knee.

Zebra: Rings of dark hair on the lower legs.This is of primitive origin and used to be for camouflage.

Blue Hoof: This kind of hoof is made of slate-blue horn.

White Hoof: White hooves accompany legs with white socks or stockings. They are like they sound.

Striped Hoof: This kind of hoof has black and white vertical stripes. The Appaloosa and other spotted horses have these kind of hooves.

Of the 3 different types of hooves blue hooves are preferred. Blue hooves are considered dense in texture and very hard-wearing. White hooves are considered soft and not able to stand up to wear well. There is no proof for those things.

I hope you have learned a lot about colors and markings.

A muzzle.

A star marking.