General appearance, Appaloosa

Appaloosa is a name for a colour. The Appaloosa is not a certain breed with specific external characteristics, but a horse or pony with the "Appaloosa" colour. There are different colours known within the Appaloosa studbook.

Leopard spotted
Blanket
Fewspot
Roan and Marble
Snowflake

The hereby mentioned colours are quite well described but there are also all kinds of mixtures. Appaloosa's are often like "magic-balls". They mostly change their colour several years before getting their definite coat. Fowls are sometimes born with 1 colour but that does not mean that in the future they will not get an Appaloosa colour. Mostly the fowls do have 1 or more of the other Appaloosa characteristics, namely:
- the so called "human eye", is a white eyeball with dark iris.
- spotted geneaticals
- spotted nose and/or lips
- striped hoofs