Black hair after an injury?
Adurna
January 11, 2011 February 22, 2011
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Yesterday evening I lay in my bed and thought about a pony from the pony farm where I have ridden for a long time.There is a shetland pony called Babsi and she is a gray horse.The special thing with her is that she has a little black spot in the region of the withers.She have some grayish foals with an chestnut tobiano stallion so she have to be a gray horse.First I thought it could be theis Bent or spots but I read somewhere that they do not appear in the gray coat color,so my question is :Could it be that this black spot comes from an injury?(because normally the hairs are white after an injury).I assume that because the spot is black her basic colour could be black .Could that be?
On the first picture is Babsi.I'm sorry i don't have a better one,but you can see the spot on the withers.
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One foal of her
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Another one
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Because of her foals which where black,gray,chestnut and bay (tobiano)I think her basic color could be black.
I hope you understand what I want to tell you :)
Re: Black hair after an injury?
I know when grooming dogs I run into spots where there has been an injury to the hair follicle and the new hair comes in different. Like most grey/silver poodles are born black, and so the new hair grows in black. Reverts back to the puppy color, and sometimes is a totally different texture.
Re: Black hair after an injury?
I think that it is a bloody shoulder mark, which is when a concentrated area of pigment appears on a gray horse. This most commonly arise on the shoulder and are red in color (hence the name), but they can occur anywhere on the body and occasionally can be black.