2006-07-23 14:33:04 · 7 answers · asked by Bill Payer 2 in Pets ➔ Dogs
I'm a horse person and I've only heard this term with horses, but I think the meaning applies to dogs as well. It's a black dog with white patches (or the other way around if you like). A skewbald would be any color with white patches.
2006-07-23 14:35:59 · answer #1 · answered by Black 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A piebald is an animal, especially a horse, that has large white and black patches. The colour of the horse's skin underneath its coat may vary between black (under the black patches of hair) and pink (under the white patches). It is typically a manifestation of the Tobiano gene.
Similar to the skewbald and oddbald, these colours are now no longer in common use in the UK and are more correctly referred to as Coloured. However, the term is still in common parlance in Ireland where piebald horses are popular amongst Irish Travellers. In the U.S., the more common term for this colouring is paint or pinto, with paint referring to a horse with American Quarter Horse breeding and pinto referring to a horse with any other breed, such as a pinto half-Arabian.
Dogs or cats may also be piebald. Snakes, especially Ball Pythons, may also exhibit seemingly varying patches of completely pigmentless scales along with patches of pigmented scales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piebald
2006-07-23 21:48:34 · answer #2 · answered by jazzmyn_girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that their dominant color is white even though their parents may not have been this color. It is a recessive gene that the parent(s) carry and pass on to their offspring. Go to a dachshund site and you will see piebalds very clearly.
2006-07-23 21:39:31 · answer #3 · answered by sweetiepie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Piebald is when an animal is spotted or patched black and white. Skewbald is when an animal is spotted or patched brown and white.
2006-07-23 21:37:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Multicolored, primarily in reference to spots or blotches of black and white.
It can also mean that something is composed of parts that don't necessarily go together.
For more technical definition:
http://www.webster.com/dictionary/piebald
2006-07-23 21:38:07 · answer #5 · answered by LovingMother 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The other responders gave you the correct description, I just thought I would send you a site with pictures.
I do so much better if I have pictures to look at when I am trying to figure out something.
http://www.countrygardendoxie.com/color_pics.htm
2006-07-23 21:44:38 · answer #6 · answered by Chihuahua Magic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just means "SPOTTED"...white w/any color.
2006-07-24 08:28:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋