"Tri-Colors"

LittleMare · 2 Year Old Joined: 09 May 2010 Posts: 38

Being a "pinto person," I'm pretty used to misunderstood information or different terms for things. It usually doesn't bother me...except one thing: the "tri-color" pinto.

"Tri-color" is applied to bay pintos, usually those who have a black or partially black mane and/or tail. The three colors, of course, are brown, black, and white.

But wouldn't this make a bay a bi-color? Does ANYONE call a bay a bi-color? Laughing

I'm just a little peeved by it, I guess. Do you have any horse-related pet peeves?
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warchief · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 5:00 pm Post subject:

There are bay paints/pintos being called tri color, then there is the lo' dun with black points

dqh · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:44 am Post subject:

The "tri-color" is also one of my pet peeves. They try to make it sound like a rare color....heaven forbid if they should just say the horse is a bay. Rolling Eyes

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LittleMare · 2 Year Old Joined: 09 May 2010 Posts: 38

Oh I LOVE the "rare" color claims. Rolling Eyes

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Pat Mefferd · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:00 am Post subject:

Interesting discussion....

Tri-Colored Leopards (Appaloosas): Three colors of spots on a white coat...such as 'black, brown and chestnut spots'.

Not a knowledgeable color genetics person...but don't black, brown and chestnut spots all start with the base color of black?

As I understand it 'White' is not a color, but lack thereof.

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LittleMare · 2 Year Old Joined: 09 May 2010 Posts: 38

Chestnut would be a red base, but bay and black would both be a black base (some count bay as a base to make allele applications easier to understand, but really the bases are black and red.) I agree on white!
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