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Summary: 2 Stars for the pretty pictures
Review: for the text, no stars. Under the heading 'Palomino' is written..'Pigmentation continues to diminish when dilutes are continuously bred to each other, and the hide of each generation will be less durable and useful until, in a few generations, it finally becomes albino'.
Well, this is news to me.
Palomino breeders will love it, I'm sure, especially as is also written..'Dilutes are undesirable colors in a horse intended for useful purposes'.I would take the contents of this books with more than 'a pinch of salt', but it makes fun reading.
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Summary: 2 Stars for the pretty pictures
Review: for the text, no stars. Under the heading 'Palomino' is written..'Pigmentation continues to diminish when dilutes are continuously bred to each other, and the hide of each generation will be less durable and useful until, in a few generations, it finally becomes albino'.
Well, this is news to me.
Palomino breeders will love it, I'm sure, especially as is also written..'Dilutes are undesirable colors in a horse intended for useful purposes'. I would take the contents of this books with more than 'a pinch of salt', but it makes fun reading.
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Summary: It's all about color!
Review: I have owned this book for many years and refer to it on occasion for information or just read it for fun. I like it for the entertaining way in which it was written and also for the information on horse color. Locally any brown horse is called sorrel around here so it is interesting to see what color a sorrel horse really is. Yes the horse paintings are really beautiful and well worth the price of the book. I find Dr Greens information valuable and admit I have bought most of my horses through the years remembering his advise about color even though I live in the midwest not in the south.
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Summary: Should be a part of any horse owner's library
Review: In Color Of Horses, Darol Dickinson's outstanding illustrations pairs R. Green's descriptions of various horse breeds and characteristics with detailed descriptions of color and over thirty reproductions of oil paintings by western artist Dickinson. The result is an excellent basic visual guide which should be a part of any horse owner's library.
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Summary: Gorgeous paintings, but not much else to offer.
Review: The "scientific" information given in the book is grievously outdated and has long since been proven incorrect. It is also fairly incomplete - no cremello, perlino or silver dapple for example, and no composite dilute colors, such as the horse that may carry both a creme gene and a dun gene. The paintings are beautiful, however. There is great temptation to take the paintings out to have framed. ;)
People wishing to learn more about equine coat colors, especially the genetics aspect of things, would be better served by buying Sponenburg or Bowling's book - or even stopping by the UC Davis website, which has a nice section on coat color genetics. (A search on any of the major search engines will bring up the exact address). Jeanette Gower's 'Horse Color Explained' is also a decent book, altough it can be confusing since it was written from an Austrailian perspective.
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Summary: Gorgeous paintings, but not much else to offer.
Review: The "scientific" information given in the book is grievously outdated and has long since been proven incorrect. It is also fairly incomplete - no cremello, perlino or silver dapple for example, and no composite dilute colors, such as the horse that may carry both a creme gene and a dun gene. The paintings are beautiful, however. There is great temptation to take the paintings out to have framed. ;)
People wishing to learn more about equine coat colors, especially the genetics aspect of things, would be better served by buying Sponenburg or Bowling's book - or even stopping by the UC Davis website, which has a nice section on coat color genetics. (A search on any of the major search engines will bring up the exact address). Jeanette Gower's 'Horse Color Explained' is also a decent book, altough it can be confusing since it was written from an Austrailian perspective.
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Summary: Buy it for the paintings, not the info
Review: This book is gorgeously illustrated by Darol Dickenson, one of the finest horse painters in the business. The text, however, leaves something to be desired. The information is so outdated that for the most part I wouldn't bother reading it except for entertainment value. Since it was written around the time I was born, I'm not suprised. Give him credit, he tried to do it scientifically, but science has taken great leaps and bounds since this was written, and much, much more is known about how color inheritance works in the horse. So buy it for the paintings, take them out and frame them even, but forget about learning anything accurate and of value pertaining to how horse color inheritance works.
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Summary: Color book review
Review: Well the text of the book is a lot of nonsense & out of date nonsence at that. The only thing that's really good about this book is the illustrations, well worth getting just for those. Ben's portion of the book is good for a laugh at how incorrect it is, it was probably incorrect even when it was written.
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