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VIDEOS OF INTEREST TO MUSTANG & BURRO ADOPTERS:
Kitty Lauman:
From Wild to Willing: Using the Bamboo Pole to Gentle Mustangs
More from Lauman Training available now!DVD or VHS
(2-DVD or 2-VHS set) almost 3 hours of instruction! $49.95 plus $5 shipping/handling = $54.95 total 
Lesley Neuman:
The First Touch
Gentling Your Mustang
$45.00
Lesley works with 3 wild horses at a BLM adoption, and very clearly explains what is happening, what she is doing, & what she sees in each horse as it progresses. Study this video and you can learn "pressure and release" gentling techniques to gentle your own new mustang! 
Help for Burro adopters!
Crystal Ward
Donkey Training
All the basics of gentling, handling, and training. A MUST for new burro adopters! Good for domestic donkeys, too! Can't do Paypal?
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Red Rabicano
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"coon" or "skunk" tail
white bars at top of tail head
- typical of Rabicano
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True Roan
(Bay base)
showing roaned body w/ solid head & lower legs
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Appaloosa Varnish Roan
(photo courtesy of Liz Cohen)
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Graying | | | | 
Sabino Roan (uniform roaning over entire body, including face; Usually combined with high, jagged-edged leg white) Easily confused with early graying or true roan
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"Roaning" occurs when the coat has white hairs mixed in with it, but the effect is not due to either a gray or true roan gene.There are a few color patterns that are Roan-like in appearance, but are genetically not linked to the Roan gene. These include: RABICANO / RUBICANORabicano/Rubicano is often confused with true Roan. Rabicano is a genetic modifier that creates roaning that is usually limited to the underside, flanks, legs, and tail head areas. Rubicanos often have a 'coon tail' of white barring at the tail head and white hairs in the flanks.
 
The tail bars, or "Skunk-tail" indicate rabicano rather than true roan.
 Ochoco Belle, a sabino rabicano mustang from Oregon Rubicano is similar to Sabino in that the underside, legs and flanks have the most white splotches. Sabino will usually be accompanied by jagged-edged white socks or stockings, extensive facial white, and other sabino traits. Sabino does not have the barred tail head ("skunk tail) 
"Frosty roan"
owned by Julie Yocom of Texas
Appaloosa Varnish Roan
These horses closely resemble roans and greys. The color develops similarly to grey, in that it gradually overtakes the previous color pattern and covers it up. It is called "varnish" because its action is much like that of brushing varnish over a still-wet painting. The colors will blur and blend into a new, mottled and non-distinct pattern of coloring. Varnish Roan is part of the appaloosa complex. CORN
"Corn" is an effect of the true Roan gene. When a roan horse suffers a scratch or scrape, the hair often grows in over the healed area as the base color (black or red) without any roaning. Over a horse's life, these accumulate to create an effect reminiscent of an ear of Indian Corn.SABINO ROAN
 
The GRAYING Process
in its early stages can look very much like roan, and many young gray horses are incorrectly labeled as roans.
  
Note that with the graying process, the face is "roaning" faster than the body. With true roan, the face is not roaned. Gray is also progressive: over time, the horse continues to lighten, going through the classic dapple gray phase, and then finally, almost pure white.
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Agouti/Bay Grey Pangare White Spotting Patterns Rabicano Roan Sooty Miscellaneous Color Issues
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