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ABEA: The American Brindle Equine Association
Brindle: An irregular pattern of vertical drippy or water like stripes on a horse, donkey, or mules body.
Chimera: Chimerism may occur naturally during gestation, when two non-identical twins (even of different sexs) combine in the womb at a very early stage of development to form a single organism. The resulting offspring is formed from four gametes — two eggs and two sperm. Each population of cells keeps its own character and the resulting animal is a mosaic of mismatched parts. You can make a single puzzle out of the mismatched parts, but the completed puzzle will show parts of both different pictures resulting in a brindled appearance.
Coat Texture: The raised/uneven areas of body hair where the striping occurs, or would occur. Many patterns, such as dappling, appaloosa spotting, paint/pinto spotting, brindle striping, and dun factor markings, are also accompanied by various forms of coat texturing.
Dorsal Stripe: The long dark stripe down an equines spine.
Dun Factor: “Primitive” markings which consist primarily of a dorsal stripe and leg barring. Dun factor may also be exhibited by a stripe over the withers, ear tips, face mask, mane/tail frosting, and mottling.
Equine: Of or belonging to the family Equidae, which includes the horses, donkeys, and their hybrids.
Genetic Brindle: Registry Classification for Brindle patterned equine known to produce brindle patterned offspring (when bred to non-brindle equine) qualify for this classification and will be marked "Proven". Those with unknown production records, or no offspring, will be placed here unless chimerism/mosaicism is suspected and will be maarked "Unproven". DNA tests for Chimerism are prefered and will be required starting 2011.
Intermittent Brindle: Basically a broken brindle pattern that occurs in multiple areas. Not to be confused with heavy dun factor or rib barring.
Leg Barring: The horizontal stripes occurring on equine most commonly exhibiting the dun factor.
Mosaic: Any equine having patches of tissue that differ genetically from the rest of the body thanks to a mutation or chromosomal anomaly that arose early in embryological development rather than the merging of two identical twins. This can result in what appears to be brindling or can be such irregular patterns as could be represented here: http://www.homozygous-horses.com/lucy.jpg
Mottling: Small, somewhat circular and darker splotches of hair that appear mainly on the forearms, gaskins, shoulders, and lower hindquarters, which seems like the reverse of dappling
Offspring (Classificaton): This new category is for equine with documented lineage tracing back to brindles registered with the ABEA, excluding C class, that exhibit no brindle markings or coat texturing. Elidgible for class change to B if upon production of G, S, or I class offspring when bred to a non-brindle.
Pangare/Mealy: This modifier is often referred to as Mealy but is also called Pangare' (pan-guh-ray). The effects of this modifier are seen along the underside of the horse. In the "soft" parts, or on the muzzle, behind the elbows, in the flanks, on the buttock, above or around the eyes and along the belly. The color of these areas depend on the color of the horse but usually range from white to a light tan.
Partial Brindle: Visible brindle pattern occurring in an isolated area such as one side or one shoulder.
Rib Barring: Regular spaced vertical bars extending out over the ribs only.
Seasonal Brindle: Brindle pattern only visible at certain times. Most common are summer and fall.
Solid Brindle: Any offspring of a known genetic brindle that exhibits only coat texturing.
Sooty/Smutty: Sooty is a modifier that is found in many breeds. It acts on both red and black based horses by darkening the color or certain areas of the horse. It varies in extent from minimal to extensive and has a many different expressions. Sooty can cause dapples, it can cause individual black hairs, it can cause a darker shade along the top line and it can also darken the animal in a uniform manner.
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