Pinto (tobiano) colors

English: Skewbald, tobiano, piebald, pinto. Icelandic: (the body color)-skjóttur. Description: The horse has a bodycolor with big white spots, usually with socks, more rarely with white spots on the head. The back can have white spots, usually there is a white spot going over the withers. The base color can be any of the occurring horse colors, the tobiano gene controls the white spots. Yellow-dun-pinto, blue-dun-pinto, bay-dun-pinto. Black-and-white pinto (piebald). Chestnut-pinto, bay-pinto. Unusual pintos. Ink spots. Some genetics: The tobiano gene is dominant, so 50 % of the offspring of a tobiano horse should become tobiano. Foal color: You can see right from the start whether the foal is pinto or not, the white spots can be seen already on the newborn foal. BACK TO COLORS

English: Skewbald, tobiano, piebald, pinto.
Icelandic: (the body color)-skjóttur.
Description: The horse has a bodycolor with big white spots, usually with socks, more rarely with white spots on the head. The back can have white spots, usually there is a white spot going over the withers. The base color can be any of the occurring horse colors, the tobiano gene controls the white spots.

Some genetics: The tobiano gene is dominant, so 50 % of the offspring of a tobiano horse should become tobiano.

Foal color: You can see right from the start whether the foal is pinto or not, the white spots can be seen already on the newborn foal.

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