Markings of horse.pptx

Horse markings for identification

1. HORSE MARKINGS Guided by :- Dr M. Jahanzaib Chishti Institute of Animal and Dairy Sciences University of Agriculture Faisalabad

2. Markings on horses usually are distinctive white areas on an otherwise dark base coat color . Most horses have some markings, and they help to identify the horse as a unique individual. Markings are present at birth and do not change over the course of the horse's life

3. Most markings have pink skin underneath most of the white hairs, though a few faint markings may occasionally have white hair with no underlying pink skin. Markings….terms used to define or describe white places on face and legs of the horse Markings may appear to change slightly when a horse grows or sheds its winter coat, however the difference is simply a factor of hair coat length, the underlying design does not change.

4. Types of markings: Common markings are A. facial markings B. leg markings

5. Facial markings •Blaze •Strip , stripe , or race •Bald Face •Star •Snip

6. Faint Interrupted Connected Irregular Crooked Lip marking

7. Snip : Any white marking between the two nostrils

8. Star : Any marking on the forehead

9. Strip : A narrow marking extending vertically in the area between the forehead and the nostrils.

10. Blaze : A vertical marking of medium, uniform width extending the length of the face.

11. Bald Face: A very broad blaze. It can extend out and around the eyes and it can extend down to the upper lip and around the nostrils.

12. Strip , stripe , or race: A marking on the forehead with a narrow extension of the nasal peak and opening up again between the nostrils. These may be connected

13. Leg marking Common leg markings are Stocking Sock Fetlock Pastern Coronet

14. Coronet: Any narrow marking around the coronet above the hoof.

15. Half Pastern: A marking which includes only half the pastern above the coronet.

16. Pastern: A marking which includes the entire pastern.

17. Sock: A marking which extends around the leg, from the coronet halfway up the cannon bone, or halfway to the knee on the foreleg or halfway to the hock on the back leg.

18. Stocking: A full marking to the area of the knee on the foreleg and to the area of the hock on the hind leg. It is an extended sock.

19. Equine coat color exhibit a diverse array of coat colors and distinctive markings most horses remain the same color throughout life a few will develop a different coat color from that with which they were born

20. Basic coat colors Bay; Dark bay, Bright bay, Light bay •Chestnut; liver chestnut, Sorrel, Blond chestnut Gray; Steel gray, Dapple Gray, Flea bitten gray, Rose gray Brown

21. Brown horse Bay horse

22. Bright bay horse Black

23. chestnut Liver chestnut horse

24. Dapple Gray Rose or iron gray

25. Flea bitten gray Liver chestnut Steel gray

26. Sorrel horse White horse

27. Dun horse Red Roan

28. Dun horse

29. Blue roan Bay roan

30. Buckskin cremello

31. perlino

32. O v e r o Tobiano

33. T o v e r o

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