Primitive markings are a group of hair coat markings and qualities seen in several equine species, including horses, donkeys, and asses. In horses, they...

lightens most of the body while leaving the mane, tail, legs, and primitive markings the shade of the undiluted base coat color. A dun horse always has...

mechanism of this process has yet to be identified. Primitive marking variants sometimes called "bider markings" have been seen in Przewalski's horses and Mongolian...

The dun gene is responsible for flat, diluted coat colors and vivid primitive markings. Bay dun is thought to be the wildtype horse coat color. Dun does...

gray gene, it will be born a mouse tan-gray shade, usually with bold primitive markings, but then lighten and eventually develop a white hair coat with age...

Markings on horses are usually distinctive white areas on an otherwise dark base coat color. Most horses have some markings, and they help to identify...

related shade with darker (usually black or dark brown) points and primitive markings. The breed standard recognises five shade variations. These shades...

They may have pink skin beneath any white markings under the areas of white hair, and if such white markings include one or both eyes, the eyes may be...

white markings; however such markings do not alter a horse's classification as "bay". Bay horses have dark skin – except under white markings, where...

have the dun dilution gene, not the cream gene. Duns always have primitive markings (shoulder blade stripes, dorsal stripe, zebra stripes on legs, webbing)...