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Pinto (tobiano) colours.

English: Skewbald, tobiano, piebald.
Icelandic: (the body colour)-skjóttur.
Description: The horse has a bodycolour 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.

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 colour is on the To-locus. A dominant gene, To, turns spots on the body into pigment-less areas, that is, white. All horse-colours can become tobiano. All tobiano foals have a tobiano parent.

The colour in different languages:

USA: Pinto, tobiano.
UK: Skewbald, piebald.
Dutch: Bont.
Swedish: Skäck.

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