Yayute

Yayute is a black tobiano Paint mare that is going to be bred to Billy, this QH stud. Until she has taken, she'll be staying at the stables! Which will probably be only a month or so, but it's still fun to have a new horse around.

I find her name kinda humorous. It's some form of a Native American language for "give me another beer". XD

Possible Change of Plans

There's a possible change of plans - we may be swapping Promise for another horse if we find a more suitable one.

Anyway, that's all I have for now; just thought I'd let you know!

Cheers!

More Boarded Horses

This past week, the stables gained two new boarded horses!

Fizzy is a chestnut and white Paint mare, and she seems pretty nice. She didn't like it when I let Angel get close enough to sniff at her, but other than that, she's quite friendly.

Her buddy is a little American (modern) type Shetland gelding. His name is Mikey, and he's a dark bay.  He too seems very friendly, and he is super cute. (:

These are the only pictures I have of them so far; enjoy. :)

Fizzy 

Mikey

Which Paint?

A sometimes confusing term is "Paint". The word can both refer to a breed, and also a color white pattern.

The most common registry for Paint horses is APHA - the American Paint Horse Association. I'd imagine there are registries for pinto horses in other countries, but I'm not certain. A paint horse can have any conformation, any size, and anything else you can think of, so long as the horse has pinto markings. Which means, yes, even a pinto Mini can be registered as a Paint.

However, when someone refers to their horse's main breed (yep, horses can be registered for multiple breed associations) as a "Paint", this usually means a Quarter-Horse-type pinto, or a more modern Thoroughbred-type pinto.

The color of paint is a bit more complicated. It can go by 'paint', 'pinto', 'piebald' (black and white pinto), 'skewbald' (bay and white pinto), and also '[base color] and white' (for example, a chestnut and white).

To most people, the color terms 'paint' and 'pinto' mean the same thing. My friends at the stables say that Native Americans would call horses such as tobianos a pinto, because the spots are fairly rounded and smooth (like a toe); whereas a paint such as a frame overo would be called a paint, because it looks like the horse got splattered (for lack of a better word?) with paint.

Piebald and skewbald are slightly old fashioned terms, but at lease the meaning of each is simple. Piebalds are black and white, and skewbalds are bay and white.

Referring to a horse color by '[base color] and white' is probably the least confusing, although it is a fairly informal term.

I think the main way to reduce confusion is to completely terminate using the word "paint" for a color. Keep it to pinto or the other options, and it will probably help.

Have an awesome day, and if you found this post helpful, please +1, and don't use "paint" to refer to a color. :)

Promise

I now can write about the horse I have. :)

Her name is Promise (full name is AngelsPaintedPromise), and she is a double-cream-dilute tobiano Paint horse. Her lineage is mainly QH (Quarter Horse) and Paint, but there's also some TB (Thoroughbred) in there. In fact, I found Man o' War in her pedigree seven lines back.

Now, her papers say that she is a cremello. Unfortunately, she could also very likely be a perlino. Her sire is a smoky black tobiano (the papers say black, but that's impossible), and might carry the Extension gene. As far as her dam...*sighs* I have no clue what color she is, so unless MiniOwner can figure it out, I'm at a loss.

Which, at that point, means that I just have to guess if Promise is a cremello, perlino, or smoky cream. All three colors are very similar; cremello is two copies of cream on a chestnut, perlino is two copies of cream on a bay or brown, and smoky cream is two copies of cream on a black. Both perlinos and smoky creams are usually slightly darker, and sometimes have darker points. Cremello is usually just very light, and a very flat (or even) shade all over. I guess I'll have to wait until we can get Promise cleaned up to tell.

She's either ee/C^CRC^CR/To^TTo⁺, Aa/C^CRC^CR/To^TTo⁺, or aa/C^CRC^CR/To^TTo⁺. Anyway, enough with that horridly boring stuff (that actually isn't very boring). :P

EDIT: Once we get her a bit more cleaned up, hopefully I'll be able to tell the base color. Right now I'm thinking cremello is right, but we'll see. :)

So, Promise is a registered Paint mare, and she's about 15.2hh or so. She doesn't seem that tall to me, but probably because 1) she is a tad bit skinny, and 2) when I'm leading her she drops her head very nicely. She seems to have pretty nice conformation, but I'm not really planning on showing her much. I more will just want to have a horse to trail ride on. You know, the more relaxed stuff. (:

Anyway, here's the moment you've all been waiting for! Or, maybe. *shrugs* Either way, here's a picture. :)