How many face markings are there for horses?

Answer 1

It depends on what markings you mean. As for color markings, yes, they can have markings around their hooves, such as socks, stockings, and cornets. On their face they can have a star, stripe, blaze, snip, bald face.... Horses can have marking put there by humans, such as a brand, freeze brand, lip tatoo and so on

Answer 2

Many: star- a blot of white on fore head Blaze- long broad strip on face goes from ears to nose Stripe- a narow blaze snip- small stip on nose it looks alot like a commma starlet- a tiny dot of white on face bald face- completely white face Some horse have rare markings like a moon shape or a lighting bolt

Answer 3

Generally this means nothing. Some breads are a little more distinguishable by their facial markings and as an example a Paint bred is often distinguishable by a bald face (white hairs covering the forehead and down the front of the face and out towards the mouth). I've got both registered paints and quarter horses with a variety of facial markings. Spots, snips, blazes and strips. Horses are described by their coat color and markings and are not always associated with a breed.

Answer 4

*White markings*

Face -

Bald - the whole face is white.

Apron - The muzzle is entirely white - sometimes up to the throat latch - but the eyes and forhead are not covered by white.

Blaze - A large, wide area that runs up the bridge of the nose from the muzzle to the forhead.

Stripe - A small, narrow strip of white that runs up the bridge of the nose from muzzle to forehead.

Star - A white marking on the forehead.

Faint- A extremely small white marking between the eyes. It can be the size of a dime to just a few white hairs.

Snip - A white marking on the muzzle.

All of these markings can occur together - like connected star and snip.

Legs -

Coronet Band - a small white ring around the hoof.

White heel - a small white area on the rear of the leg, near the hoof and below the pastern.

Pastern - white comes from the hoof to the bottom of the pastern.

Sock - white comes from the hoof to a the canon above the pastern. Also called boots.

Half Stocking - white comes from the hoof to in between the pastern/knee.

Stocking - white comes from the hoof, to at/above the knee.

Irregular stocking - Same as a stocking, except part of the marking is above the knee and part isn't.

* - Patterns - *

- Appaloosa -

Appaloosas are characterized by spots over the body, in various forms.

Snowcap - White rump. The white may expand across the back in a roan like fashion.

Blanket or Spotted Blanket - The horse appears to have a white blanket with spots in it. The outer edges of the blanket may have roaning.

Lace blanket - white "lacing" across the rump or back.

Leopard - Totally white with colored spots all over it. Spots vary in size from big to small and frequency from few to many.

Snowflake or Reverse Leopard - There are "flecks" or spots of white throughout the coat. The size and frequency of the flecks may increase with age, until the horse is mostly white.

Few-spots - Mainly white with dark (coat color) areas/spots around the breast, chest, knees, lower legs, flank, and face.

Varnish roan - The horse appears to be roan, but is actually an appaloosa.

- Pinto -

White markings on a horse, that look like they have been painted. There are several types. Piebald describes the color combination of black and white; Tri-Colored describes pinto on a bay base coat; skewbald covers all other colors, but usually refers to browns.

Tobiano- Irregular white markings that look like paint has dripped down a horses back - crosses the top line. They usually have white legs.

Medicine Hat - A mainly white tobiano, but with dark ears and a white face. Appears to be wearing a hat.

Overo - Large irregular white blotches, usually with jagged edges, that never cross the top line. It's typical to see large circles of coat color within the white. Usually accompanied by solid legs and white or bald face.

Frame overo - A special type of overo. The markings never cross the top line, and are solid - the white doesn't have any splotches of color on the inside.

Tovero - A mix between overo and tobiano.

Splash - Looks the the bottom part of the horse was dunked in white. It can stop at the knees and bald face, or be so extensive that only a small portion of the horses back color is still visible.

Sabino (usually has white legs, and edges of markings have a roan pattern).

- Roan -

White hairs intermixed with regular colored hairs, giving the horse a faded look over the top line, with solid legs and face. There are special names for some roans.

Blue roan - Roan on black

Red Roan - Roan on bay

Strawberry Roan - Roan on chestnut

Purple Roan - Roan on seal brown

Golden Roan or Honey Roan - Roan on palomino

Lilac Roan - Roan on liver chestnut

Depending on your region or breed registry, some people are adamant that chestnut roans are red roans, and bay roans have no special name. However, the above list is typically accepted.

- Grey -

Many people don't consider grey a pattern, but it actually is! The horse is born a solid color, but fades with age.

White greys appear white, but are NOT WHITE - they have darker faces, especially around the eyes and muzzle, and usually darker legs.

Dapple greys have dappling - or light/dark colored circles throughout the coat (can come in dark and light varieties). Sometimes the dappling is concentrated in certain areas.

Steel greys are a dark grey throughout the whole coat, usually with darker points.

Rose greys are chestnut horses that have greyed - they have a red or brown tinge to their coat, with darker legs and manes/tails.

Fleabitten - has many, tiny dots of color throughout the whole coat (that looks like they have been flea bitten) that range from red to black.

Rabicano - white roan-like markings on the sides/flanks of the horse, but not occuring through the whole coat or on the rump.

Birdcatcher Spots - a few, small oval shaped white patches anywhere on the horse.

Chubari Spots or Tetrarch Spots - The same thing as Birdcatcher spots, except chubari spots are much larger and there are more of them.

*Other Markings *

Face and Leg markings -

The white markings that occur on the face and legs can occur in reverse - which means that the darker color of the base coat appears instead of the white. For instance, a "reverse stocking" or "reverse star".

Those on the face are sometimes called "badger" markings. A horse with a white head but black face has what's called a "badger face".

Ermine spots are small spots of coat color on the coronet band or just above it, usually connecting with the hoof.

Dapples - Lighter, circular dots throughout the horses coat.

Reverse Dapples - Darker, circular dots throughout the horses coat. Very rare.

Sooty or Smutty - black tinge throughout the coat - makes them look "dirty" or "sooty". Usually accompanied by dapples.

Brindle - Simular to the brindle of dogs and cats - but is extremely rare in horses. It's caused by the sooty gene. Very rarely, instead of darker stripes, the stripes will be white.

Bloody shoulder - large, irregular red patches on a grey horse. Very rare.

Pangare - Light colored bell/inside of legs/muzzle.

Cobwebs or Lacing - Patches on the horse that are lighter in color, and look like cobwebs/laces/sparkle of water on the bottom of a pool. Extremely rare.

Leg Barring - Occurs only on duns. They are much like zebra stripes on the lower legs.

Dorsal Stripes - Occurs only on duns. It's a strip of black that runs down the spine.

Counter Shading - Looks like a dorsal stripe, but actually isn't. Usually is seen with the sooty gene.

Fishbones - Stripes of darker color coming off the withers or neck.

Bend or Spots or Grease Spots - Large splotches of unexplained darker color.

Mosaic Chestnut - Not exactly a pattern, but not a color, mosaic chestnut is like a chestnut pinto - only instead of white, it is black.

Answer 5

It depends on the horse, its different with each horse.

Answer 6

There are 34 bones in a horses skull.