Paint coloring?

CoolsLadyInRed · Paint coloring?

This seems like a silly question. Lady is 16yr old. Her daddy was a paint and mamma a sorrel. She has been sorrel with the only white being on her face/blaze with a strip.In the past year or so she is having white spots pop up here and there. I just one on the outside of her ear about dime size. She has a new one on her rump , neck, and shoulder. Not where anything has rubbed. Is this her age or do horses change color ? She has a few white hairs in her mane.

gaitinalong

Some horses' coats will change color as they age.

My solid Sorrel started to roan out a few years ago and my solid red chestnut is roaning out with his new winter coat. They are 16-1/2 and 12 respectively.

Both are Walking Horses so have Roan Allen in their gene pool who wasn't named "Roan Allen" for nothing.

My third TWH just turned 24, also goes back to Roan Allen, but is still a solid liver chestnut. Even the insulin resistance hasn't stressed him enough to roan his coat out.

A neighbor has a Spotted Walker who was solid black (not even a star on his face) until a few years ago when he got a couple white spots on his belly. They're not not from injury and they are not where the girth goes.

jackspark

My sorrel gelding is also developing small, circular white spots. He is a "paint" by breeding.

PasoBaby_CarolU

Those are called Birdcatcher Spots. They are pretty common in sorrel horses and can show up in duns and Palominos also. As I recall there was a racehorse with a lot of them named Birdcatcher and that is how they got that name. They have nothing to do with Paint or Pinto genes though.

http://www.google.com/search?q=bi...0CDAQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=679

CoolsLadyInRed

Carol, those are kind of what they look like. Just random spots. And here I thought the paint was finally coming to light.LOL
Thanks for everyone's input

PasoBaby_CarolU

No problem Beth...I was joking about doing a Color Change on my sorrel gelding when they showed up on him. He's old and a "roan" now.

Pedestal*Pony

My QH gelding Charlie is getting them. I call them his "sexy spots".

jackspark

HaHa....... I always thought they were his paint genes comin' out, too. He's just gettin' old like the rest of us

Thanks for the input gals, I'll break the news to him tomorrow....... he'll be crushed cause he told me that one day he'd be a flashy paint and now he'll just be an old guy.

whudson

My guy who is a dark bay, is an App/Qh cross. Now 16 yrs old is getting a "star" where he has never had one before. Also has white hairs in his mane. I was thinking age but thought he was aging prematurely

Cause of course he is still so young in my mind

I'm hoping he will last forever

CoolsLadyInRed

Wanda, My mare is 16 also and I started to see the spots last year. I just figured her age was showing or the paint breeding was finally showing up. I also hope we have many more years to come

The white mane hairs are funny , too. Nothing in her tail, though. She has very few but more so in the last year or so.