What is the difference between Pinto horses, Paint horses, Skrewbald horses, and Piebald horses?

Answer 1

Pinto - any horse that has splotches
Paint - a stock-type horse that has splotches (like a Quarter Horse)
Skewbald - a pinto with brown splotches
Piebald - a pinto with black splotches

Answer 2

As there are already many on here that are giving you the definitions of the different paint markings (tobiano, overo, etc) I won't go into that and repeat it. However, your saying that paint is a breed and pinto is a color is very incurate on both counts. The paint and pinto genes are one in the same gene. Neither is a color. What this gene does is to create the spotting patterns that these horses have. There are several different genes that create this spotting pattern that classifies these horses as paints and pintos: the tobiano gene, the overo gene, etc. The Paint horse registry (APHA) registers horses with Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred backgrounds. It is not a blood breed registry, it is considered a color breed registry (even though Paint and Pinto are not a color, as stated above, they are still classified as a color breed registry just as the Palomino and Buckskin registries are). The Pinto registry registers the others so there are a lot of gaited horses, Half Arabians, etc in that registry. The Pinto registry is also considered a color breed registry. A horse registry does not make it a particular blood breed registry so the Paint horse itself is not a breed in that it is not a blood breed. Your "colors" are your base colors, such as chestnut, bay, black, palomino, etc. Your Paints and Pintos are carrying the additional gene (such as the tobiano or overo gene) or genes (such as a tobiano and an overo gene to create tovero) that creates the spotting patterns on these base colors. So you have a chestnut paint or pinto, a bay paint or pinto, etc. This seems to be two of the biggest misconceptions there are, that paint and/or pinto is a color and that one is a breed and one is a color. One is no more a breed than the other and neither is a color. They simply carry the genes necessary to create the spotting pattern that makes for them being called paints and pintos.

Answer 3

Paint Horses consider themselves a breed. In order to be able to register a horse with APHA, it has to have at least one Paint parent and meet the minimum white requirement. All paints have to come from either Quarter or Thoroughbred stock. No ponies, minis, drafts, Arabians, etc.
Pinto is a color breed. In order to be registered as a Pinto a horse has to meet the minimum color requirement and can be of any breed except donkeys or drafts.
Piebald and Skewbald are old terms for horses with the Pinto coloring.

Answer 4

Paints and Pintos both have their own breed registries, the American Paint Horse Association (APHA) and the Pinto Horse Association of America. Both register horses and ponies with the same broken coat patterns (overo and tobiano). Pintos, however, are registered according to their type, which is based on conformation. They can registered as Stock type (built like a QH), hunter type (built more like a TB or Warmblood), Pleasure type (usually Arab or Morgan), and Saddle type (usually Saddlebred, NSH, or TWH).

Piebalds and skewbalds are old names for specific coat patterns. Nowadays, the terms tobiano and overo are heard more often. Overo patterns occur when a horse is predominantly colored and the white marks usually won't cross the back of the horse between the withers and the tail; at least one and usually all four legs will be dark; white patches are irregular. Tobianos are predominantly white; generally all four legs will be white; the patches of color are usually in regular ovals or round markings. Horses displaying characteristics of both patterns are called toveros. Hope that helped.

Answer 5

Pintos are an actual breed of horse. Skrewbalds and Piebalds are a color.
A Skrewbald is a white horse with brown patches
A Piebald is a white horse with black patches.
Paints are a breed of horse, for an example a Quarter Horse, that have patches or splots of colors.

Answer 6

Go to yahoo and type in paint horses and it will take you to a site where you cn see the differences or go to equineesates.com. There is no difference in a pinto and a paint pinto is what they were cslled before they came out with the registering of spotted horses .A piedold is a paint or pinto with a all white blazed face i think a skewbald is basically on the same order iv'e forgotten. Now they call them tobiona and ovarian's according to the white on them and how much and were it is. They'er always tring to confuss you. Check out the web site.

Answer 7

Okay lets get our facts straight:

A piebald is an animal, especially a horse, that has a spotting pattern of large white and black patches. The Skewbald horse has a coat made up of brown (or any color besides black) and white patches, on top of either pink or black skin. An Oddbald horse is a horse with large white, brown and black patches. The colour of the horse's skin underneath its coat may vary between black or pink. Tobiano is a spotting pattern characterized by rounded markings with white legs and white across the back between the withers and the dock of the tail, usually arranged in a roughly vertical pattern and more white than dark, with the head usually dark and with markings like that of a normal horse. i.e. star, snip, strip, or blaze. Overo is a spotting pattern characterized by sharp, irregular markings with a horizontal orientation, usually more white than dark, though the face is usually white, sometimes with blue eyes. The white rarely crosses the back, and the lower legs are normally dark.

The one thing no one has mentioned is that they can't be appaloosas either!

Answer 8

ok, pinto horses is a colour of horse that is an overall name of skewbald and piebald horses. skew bald horses are brown or any other colour of horse with white patches. piebald horses are black with white patches. paint horses are a kind of breed of horse that are usually chestnut with white patches.
hope this helps!!!

Answer 9

ok...its SKEWbald...not skrewbald. you had the right idea but just spelled it wrong.