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Tobiano with solid legs

I'm not really sure if it's all that unusual, but this seemed as good a section as any to put it! I was just thinking about tobiano's with dark legs/feet and remembered a filly I have is a good example of a tobi with dark feet. I don't have any great pictures of her so if it isn't raining tomorrow I might be able to get some clearer ones of her legs. But these a just a couple of pics I already had. To me she looks like a fairly normally marked tobinao, more colour than a lot but not really minimal? Her mum's a minimal tobiano with one solid leg and that white supression look going on the other legs. On the filly both her off side legs are chestnut all the way to the ground. Not even a dot of white on either of them. So not all that exciting, in that she isn't one of those interesting dark bits on a white leg but I know it's often said tobiano's will always have 4 white feet so thought I'd put her up! As a newborn, they are clearest pics of her legs I could find, but of course being a newborn there aren't very clear anyway! [img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2802/4352299288_5c030fc2b4.jpg[/img] [img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2727/4352312102_7d7d7083f1.jpg[/img] As a weanling, couldn't find any leg shots in these pics as the grass was too long! [img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4352299284_658d746e26.jpg[/img] And more recently as a yearling [img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4352299282_d72a03ecd1.jpg[/img] If it's interesting I'll make the effort to get some better picture of her and her legs, but if not so unusual I probably won't! Just thought I'd see what you guys said. Oh and here is her dam, who has the more obvious minimal white effect. [img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4352299294_4d63c639e2.jpg[/img] Cheers Danni

rabbitsfizz Sat, 02/20/2010 - 10:57

I saw an hour long documentary on the people that live with these horses, and rely on them for everything....they eat only horsemeat, nothing else (Yuk, there is such a thing as too much meat, guys, and it is not as if you could not buy the occasional potato or carrot!)
The slaughter scene actually had me fast forwarding, and I am no wimp when it comes to humane slaughter, I have held all my animals that have been shot, myself, I feel that is the least I can do for them, but this was....gruesoem. Again, no excuse, it is not as if they could not buy a gun, or even a sharp knife would have been better than what they actually did. And the wimp of a woman who was making the film wittered on about tradition.
Blow tradition, cruel is CRUEL!!!

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Not a pinto in sight, basically, Dun was the colour of choice, mostly Bay Duns, and they were prized, although the main stallion of this herd was the pale "grey" Dun colour you get in Fjords....but, of course, we were only seeing them in the middle of winter (I think they do shed out, even though "summer" is only a couple of months when it doesn't snow!!) so it is hard to judge what colour they were really.

Danni Fri, 02/26/2010 - 16:48

Another one with a solid leg, now I'm looking I've actually seen quite a few! So... is a tobiano with solid legs all that unusual really??

Keeping in mind shetties without tobi don't usually have socks too, maybe that's why we get a few tobi's with solid legs turning up??

I think this boy is interesting anyway for a shetland, with the jagged edges to his pattern, plus a bit of a splash look to them too

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And this one is out of a full sister to my red and white filly in the first post.

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Danni Sat, 02/27/2010 - 17:06

Yeh I don't think their markings are always JUST tobiano and splash either. But I can also see where the no sabino comes from not having the the usual range of non tobiano socks etc.. that other breeds do. But that might just mean they don't have all the sabinos. I hate to think how many genes there actually are that can cause or effect white markings!!

Here is another solid leg yearling colt. But I'll stop posting them now, there are seriously heaps of these. The ones I've posted are just friends ponies, there are heaps more out there. I'm going to stop looking LOL, and just accept I think, that shettie tobianos can have solid legs for whatever reason. :?

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