I can only assume that it means the same in every other aspect as it does with horses. So, yeah, it means black and white splodges. Skewbald means the same but brown and white if you ever wandered...
piebald is basicaly a black and white horse
A skewbald horse is brown and white, and a piebald is black and white.
a horse marked with black and white coat is known as a PieBald
a black and white horse is called piebald
A piebald pony is a horse with large patches of white and another color, such as black or brown. Piebald coloring is caused by a genetic mutation that affects the distribution of pigment in the skin and hair. These ponies have a unique and striking appearance due to their patches of contrasting colors.
Brown and White is a skewbald Black and White is a Piebald
A piebald horse is a horse with irregular black patches on a gray coat (which may appear white). There are two other colorings to distinguish a piebald from: Paint horses and Skewbald. A Skewbald horse has similar patches, but they are brown. A Paint horse is the opposite - they seem to have white patches on a solid coat.
There are many black and white sheep. Such as the suffolk or hampshires. which have black heads and legs but a white body/wool.There are also Jacob which are piebald (black and white spotted).
The cisco kids' horse was piebald: Black and white.
Buck, Ben's horse, was a buckskin. Sport, Adam's horse, was a sorrel. Chubb or Chubby, Hoss's horse, was a dark brown. Cochise, Little Joe's horse, was a black and white pinto or a piebald. Black and white pinto means the same thing as piebald.
Piebald refers to a horse that is genetically black with white spots. This means that the horse hasto be either Ee or EE at the extension site and aa (true black) at the Agouti site.This looks like aaE- (the dash indicates an allele that may or may not be known but doesn't affect the animal's appearance/phenotype) which produces a black horse.The Spotting patterns associated with the term piebald can be Tobiano, Overo, Sabino or Splashed White.Tobiano Piebald would be aaE-To-Overo Piebald would be aaE-Ovov (Frame Overo can only be Ovov as OvOv is lethal)Sabino Piebald would be aaE-Sb-Splashed White Piebald would be aaE-SW-Spotted horses can carry more than one of the spotting patterns as well since all spotting genes mentioned here are at a different gene locus.
there is a wide range of colours, black or dark brown , white, grey, roan or piebald