Is a horse considered brindle if the brindle isn’t over the entire body?
Does anything else cause brindle like stripes but it isn’t brindle?
A horse can have brindling without being overall brindle, yes. It’s still “brindle”, just minimally expressed.
duns have the “stripes”
on their legs but obviously not their bodies. Not sure if that counts.
There’s also something called ‘lacing’ that could look a little bit like brindle, but is white…
Duns very often have leg barring - forearms, gaskins - but that is very different from the brindle stripes 
[quote=pintopiaffe;4883202]There’s also something called ‘lacing’ that could look a little bit like brindle, but is white…
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Very different Brindle marks, especially when you can see them as just in one spot rather than the whole horse, are darker than the normal color
well, I knew one that the lacing came from the back and dripped down the sides… it did look like white stripey stuff–the ‘pattern’ if you will of brindling.
It tended to change season to season. Mabye just weird rabicano. Horse was chestnut.
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The horse is liver chestnut. Are those stripes brindle?
Yep, those are brindle stripes :yes:
Wow… This is my Rubinstein/Warkant overall 8, 9/9/8 wtc mare.
WOW, that is cool! A 9/9/8 mare is pretty rare, AND one with brindling? That’s very unique. Congrats on a special mare, coloring aside.
Can we see the whole horsie?
OK…Liver Chestut makes me weak at the knees as it is, even if its a post-legged chunk of a halter horse. But a Rubinstein mare–and add brindle? OMG consider her stolen :yes:
All of my pictures are on my other computer. But here is/was her sales ad. Look at Rosa Canina. I can sort of see one of the flank stripes in this picture.
http://www.encoresporthorse.com/sales.htm That’s her Sir Donnerhall filly below her ad.
I contacted the Brindle horse registry to get their opinion and they say she is definitely a brindle. The weird thing is that I asked the lady where Rubi was for a couple years said she never saw her stripes. But what the Brindle horse registry said was that diet can make the stripes more or less visible. I feed Gro’nWin which is a very concentrated ration balancer consisting of mostly vitamins and minerals. I look at it more like a vitamin pill in pellet form rather than a ‘feed’. Maybe that has caused the stripes and dapples to be more obvious this year?
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All of my pictures are on my other computer. But here is/was her sales ad. Look at Rosa Canina. I can sort of see one of the flank stripes in this picture.
http://www.encoresporthorse.com/sales.htm That’s her Sir Donnerhall filly below her ad.
I contacted the Brindle horse registry to get their opinion and they say she is definitely a brindle. The weird thing is that I asked the lady where Rubi was for a couple years said she never saw her stripes. But what the Brindle horse registry said was that diet can make the stripes more or less visible. I feed Gro’nWin which is a very concentrated ration balancer consisting of mostly vitamins and minerals. I look at it more like a vitamin pill in pellet form rather than a ‘feed’. Maybe that has caused the stripes and dapples to be more obvious this year?[/QUOTE]
I don’t know about brindles, but I have dapples on my mare this summer and she never had them last summer (didn’t own her then). I feed TC Growth and she is in excellent weight, almost a tad heavy, despite feeding her foal. So body weight seems to matter for dapples, anyway.
Really cool, btw. I want to see a better picture of her!
VERY cool!! I wonder if your horse is chimeric?
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VERY cool!! I wonder if your horse is chimeric?[/QUOTE]
I’m going to have UC Davis test for it. It requires a hair sample and a tube of blood. They can test for that, but there is no test for the other type of brindle which can be passed down to the offspring.
Next time the vet comes out I’ll have him take a tube for me.
Natal Brindle Brazilian Warmblood Stallion
Natal is genetically brindle. His US foals have been varying degrees of brindle. Here are more photos. His name in Brazil was El Tigre. Competed very successfully in Junior jumpers despite being a stallion. http://www.performancesires.com/Natal___Brindle_WB.html
Not trying to derail your thread, OP, but I washave a question re: a mare that I think may be brindle.
She’s a color I’ve never seen before, like a really, really dark chocolate color and she seems to have a bit of a purple tinge to her coat. (but no, she’s not majikal) :lol:
Anyway, from certain angles, you can see these vertical ‘stripes’ in her coat. They’re not really a different color, per se, they sort of remind me of dapples in that regard. They’re subtle, but I have been fascinated with them since I met her.
Anyone have any insight? Thanks in advance!
No idea, but I’d get a picture of it and ask the brindle people what they think about it.
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Natal is genetically brindle. His US foals have been varying degrees of brindle. Here are more photos. His name in Brazil was El Tigre. Competed very successfully in Junior jumpers despite being a stallion. http://www.performancesires.com/Natal___Brindle_WB.html[/QUOTE]
wow-- thats really cool about your mare- how fun is that.
here was a link with more photos of natal
http://www.whitehorseproductions.com/ecg_basics4.html
