Just an observation on tobiano alone...
Heather
July 17, 2009 February 22, 2011
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Its not white legs such as "sabino" or "Splash". tobiano white leg patterning will not color the hoof or all areas that were primitive hooves when horses had toes, I notice sitting on a bucket today that the little nobby "chestnuts" on the back of the fetlock of my filly are all four colored with pigment and of course we have seen the high chestnuts colored .... just something I was viewing from behind her watching them eat dinner...I know easily amuzed... :flower ...so that being said fi there is no pigment on the chestnuts then you could likely guess there is another pattern maybe?...i have serious white supression in my family of horses, even her half sister with one white sock is black hoof...all ermines on her too on her one sock.
Re: Just an observation on tobiano alone...
Yea defeinatly, I have observed this before but Im extending my idea, as now I jsut noticed that my filly has the chestnuts on the back of her fetlock colored too! And that would be all the primitive toes of horse, just struck me as odd that pigment would keep those areas dark with definate purpose. The high up chestnut is suppose to be the 5 ? toe?
Re: Just an observation on tobiano alone...
Well, as to the white chestnuts, that could be a point to ponder :-?
and yes, you do seem to be easily amused... :laugh1