Welcome
to IRC's Color Key
Appaloosas and Knapstruppers
(We still need
lots of photos of the different patterns for App's/Knaps-can you
contribute? Please email if you have photos, TIA)
Patterns:
plain blanket, blanket with spots, patterned leopard, unpatterned
leopard, reverse spots, snowflake, flecked, varnish roan, Few spot
appaloosas
Any one or all of the color patterns may be
present on the same horse. It
is common for appaloosas to have striped hooves, mottled skin, and
depigmented/mottled skin around the eyes, muzzle, and sheath, and white
or mottled sclera
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1: Palominos, Cremellos - Duns, Buckskins, Perlinos
-- Opened, but under construction PAGE
2: Pintos, Paints-various patterns and colors
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3: Appaloosas, Knapstruppers-various patterns and colors
Opening soon...
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4: Blacks, Whites
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5: Champagnes, Metallic
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6: Roans, Grullas, Greys
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7: Miscellaneous colors-Brindle, Pintaloosas, etc.
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8: Laymen's Genetic terms and information.
Photos range in age from 1 day through 15 weeks. Amazing changes!--think you have a black Appaloosa with a white blanket? give it time and think again!
Thank you Rebecca at Sonesta Farms for providing these photos. Please visit Sonesta Farms at: http://www.nol.net/~sonesta/index.htm
Plain
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IRC stallion Wap Spotted, owned by: Kismet Farm http://www.kismet-farm.com/ |
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IRC stallion Apollon owned by: Gwendolyn Gregorio Gestuet Falkenhorst http://www.gestuet-falkenhorst.de |
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Next page: PAGE 4: Blacks & Whites
