roans
Mottled coat horses
Roans is the plural of roan, a coat color in horses and cattle characterized by white hairs mixed evenly with a darker base color—typically red, bay, or black.
A red roan has white hairs mixed with chestnut; a blue roan mixes white with black.
The term also refers to animals with this coloring: The roans grazed at the far end of the pasture.
Large domesticated hoofed mammals
- maresAdult female equines
- stallionsAdult male horses
- geldingsCastrated male horses
- coatOuter garment or layer
coloring · sorrel · chestnut · bay · dappled · mane · breeding · bloodlines
Dotted with small marks
- mottledHaving irregular color patches
- fleckedSpotted with small marks
- intermingledMixed thoroughly throughout
- pigmentationNatural tissue coloring
coat pattern · gray hairs · faded · silvery · frosted · scattered · salt-and-pepper · grizzled
horses
Large domesticated hoofed mammals
coat · coloring · sorrel · chestnut · bay · dappled · mane · breeding · bloodlines · quarter horses
speckled
Dotted with small marks
- mottledHaving irregular color patches
- fleckedSpotted with small marks
- intermingledMixed thoroughly throughout
pigmentation · coat pattern · gray hairs · faded · silvery · frosted · scattered · salt-and-pepper · grizzled · interspersed
cows
Adult female bovines
bulls · calves · livestock · ranching · herds · breeding stock · show cattle · bovine · grazing · stockyard