What makes a tobiano

It isn't breed-specific and pintos are generally frowned upon in my circle. Sounds flippin complicated to me!!!

I think I'll stick to my chestnut TBs!! Donkeymad Guest 21 August What's wrong with good old skewbald, piebald and tri-coloured???? Oh I wanna see the bay with the grey mane and tail!!!!!

All I know is that I have a black tobiano and a bay tobiano. Joined 18 January Messages 8, Location Nottinghamshire. So, is the coloured in my sig, a black tobiano?

Joined 1 May Messages 1, Location Lancashire. Min is registered with CHAPS as a black tobiano- A tobiano should have a coloured shield down their chest and the dark colour will cover both flanks, and head markings will give the appearance of a solid coloured horse with blaze, strip or snip.

Generally all four legs are white up to at least the knees. Overos will not generally have white across the back between the withers and tail, at least one, if not all legs are dark and the white is irregular, rather scattered or splashy. Piebald is a colour type; any type of markings which are black and white - it doesn't matter where about those markings may be or what shape they are. Tobiano is not a colour type; it is a marking type. You also have tovero, overo and sabino and others for other breeds like Appys.

These are all markings and are not colour-specific but they are all different types of markings. Joined 14 November Messages 1, Location Lancashire.

Mines a Bay Tobiano. Bought her as a tri colour as she is skewbald but with black mane and tail. Tobiano refers to how large the "patches" are over the body and what parts they cover. One with more white would be called something else, one more white on face something else. Can't remember the others But there is a good website which we found we shows sketches of how the colours go over the body and which type of coloured they are.

But can't remember it sorry. Although tobianos usually have dark head, dark chest etc please dont take that as given. So tobiano is just the name of the gene that adds the white patches over the base colour of the horse, be that bay, chestnut, palomino, whatever.

Breeders often use the term tobiano for that reason, but most people understand what is meant by piebald etc, its the same thing in most cases. How boring does that sound! I will try and get a photo depends if I can get near him!! I cheated and went on Wikipedia: Tobiano is a genetic trait among Pinto horses which produce a characteristic spotting pattern in the coat of the horse. Pinto-colored horses have patches of solid colors, such as black, bay, or chestnut, interspersed with patches of white.

Think of an overo as a solid-colored horse that had an unfortunate accident with a paint bucket; someone splashed or dabbed random patches of white on the horse's sides. A tobiano often looks like a solid colored horse that had a bucket of white paint poured all over his back; the paint dripped down the back and sides, but left some solid-colored patches showing. Learning to distinguish between the two color patterns can be confusing at first, but with practice, you can learn the distinction between the two coat patterns.

Overo and tobiano coat patterns can occur in horses or ponies of any size. The overall appearance of the two coat patterns differs in the amount and placement of the white patterns on the horse's body. A tobiano horse has white patches crossing the horse's spine, which extends from the spot between the ears, called the poll, down to the tip of the tail bone. On a tobiano horse, the white pattern will cross over the spine at any point.

An overo horse has a mostly solid-colored body with white patches, which can be quite large, that do not cross the spine at any point. An overo horse's mane and tail usually are dark, while a tobiano may have white mixed in with the mane and tail color.

Overo horses often sport the striking white pattern on the face, called a "bald" face. A bald-faced horse has a large mask of white extending over the eyes and across the entire head down to the muzzle.

Dark face, chest shield, white to the knees. He is from a smoky black stallion and a dun tobiano mare. Songcatcher Well-Known Member. Last edited by a moderator: Feb 18, Ashley Well-Known Member. Joined Nov 30, Messages 5, Reaction score Here is my tobi.

When bred to a solid she typically has a solid. When bred to a pinto they have been homozygous she has pinto typically with splash or frame added. Getitia Well-Known Member.

Joined Aug 21, Messages Reaction score 0. Here was our rescue "Elvis" a typical tobiano:. VernB Well-Known Member. I like these color threads!!! Becky Well-Known Member. Mona Well-Known Member. Here are several examples of tobianos This is "Rainy". She is a bay clipped out looking black tobiano. Her dam is a homozygous for tobiano silver pinto, and her sire is a bay pinto. Nice horses Tobiano does not produce face white. So, if your horse has face white it may well have Tobiano but it also has another pattern.

And this thread was started to show Tobianos only, in order to educate. The fact is you will be very hard pushed to find any horse, especially in Minis , that only has one pattern- in fact I would say the most likely contender so far is Becky's Melody as she is showing so little white that it is unlikely she has any other pattern- if she had had she probably would have expressed more white.

Minxiesmom Well-Known Member. I am learning lots.