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HorseQuest Learning Lessons: Understanding Horse Coat Color

Last Updated: May 28, 2008 Related resource areas: Horses

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In Understanding Horse Coat Color the following learning objectives are addressed.

  1. Learning the basic coat colors of horses.
  2. Learning the characteristics of each color.
  3. Identifying color patterns of horses.

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Ellen Zawada on 03.19.08 at 10:47 PM
I have to disagree that "true" buckskins have a dorsal stripe. Genetically Buckskins are a Bay + the Cream gene and do not have a true dorsal stripe (some may have countershading but not a dorsal stripe). Only horses that have the dun gene have true dorsal stripes. A bay + the dun gene = dun/zebra dun , a black + the dun gene = grulla, and a sorrel + the dun gene = red dun.

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