going spotty

[claire louise u]

hi i have had noodle for nearly a year now, last year she had 2 dark spots on her rump, this year with her losing her winter coat she is coming out in spots nearly all over but mainly on her backend am i going to end up with a appalasso/palomino,:eek: her passport has background on her sires side which are mainly creams, palomino, chestnuts her mother was a chestnut, hopefully in these photoes i took earlier you can see what i mean any info much appreiated thanks

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a43/lenoyer/noodle039.jpg



http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a43/lenoyer/noodle044.jpg

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a43/lenoyer/noodle040.jpg

sorry they are big best way to see it,

[CMR]

Is she older? Maybe she's getting 'fleabites.' Like how some greys are 'fleabitten greys.' Sometimes those come with age...

[claire louise u]

no she is only 5 next month

[jess2233]

dont know if this helps but when my boy was born he was white so white i called him casper after the friendly ghost as he got older he got more and more spots he is 5 now well next week and quite spotty but his mum and dad were both spotty appaloosas all i know is the older my boy gets the more spots appear on him.
hope this kind of helps :) :)

[Rips]

It could be just her coat changing? Its hard to see on my brown horse but her new coat always comes in spots....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v445/Rips/th_ColourChangesmall.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v445/Rips/ColourChangesmall.jpg)

[chev]

They're not fleabites, or appaloosa patterns. They're grease spots (also called Band Or spots after a racehorse who had lots of them :D ) and they're just spots of darker pigment that show up on some horses. They're nearly always seen on chestnuts or chestnut based horses like yours (palomino is chestnut with cream) and while some horses do get quite a few, she's unlikely to end up really spotty.

The spotting seen on Appaloosas is a different thing altogether; that's a coat pattern caused by the Lp complex of genes and is much more than just spotting! Lp also causes scleras round the eyes, mottled skin colour, stripey hooves and so on; another characteristic of some Appy spots is that they actually stand out to the touch.

Grease spots have no known cause as yet; it's basically a concentration of pigment in certain points of the horse's coat but why it happens and what might cause it is anyone's guess just yet.

An awful lot of chestnut based horses do get them though, so you're not alone! :D

[kunama]

Can grease spots be white?

Tanco's summer coat is comeing through and he is covered in grey hairs on his rump and has three white spots so far, i'm a bit mistified as he is definately suffolk punch x tb, he is chestnut so feel free to enlighten me! Is this roaning ? or an appy gene? and if so where on earth did it come from!!!!!

[chev]

Grease spots are always spots of darker pigment (or more concentrated pigment) on solid horses. White spots on a chestnut are most likely to be vitiligo or birdcatcher spots. The two may be linked... it's a little unclear!

[kunama]

it just seems odd as it is concentrated on his rump his front end is spotless so to speak!

[Mehitabel]

theyt're often on the bum - i know two orange ones with them who both have several on their rumps and nowhere else.

[chev]

Yup - most of the ones I've seen have been on the rump too. They're mush less common on the front!

[cvb]

The spotting seen on Appaloosas is a different thing altogether; that's a coat pattern caused by the Lp complex of genes and is much more than just spotting! Lp also causes scleras round the eyes, mottled skin colour, stripey hooves and so on; another characteristic of some Appy spots is that they actually stand out to the touch.

I learnt something new ! Fi's spots on her blanket do this and I've sometimes worried that there is a sun burn underneath ( as the spots are pink skin, and the white is black skin). She does have some pink skin in the blanket that isn't associated with spots so gets a sun-rug on to stop sun burn as she has quite a thin summer coat !