Some reflections on the pied coat of the Catalan Pyrenean Horse Authors Pere M. Parés-Casanova Escola Agrària del Pirineu Keywords: coat colours, horses, phaneroptics, stud book, local breeds. Abstract The increasingly frequent appearance of pied coats among animals of the cavall pirinenc català (CPC) or Catalan Pyrenean Horse breed leads us to consider the management of horses with this coat colour. Should we continue to avoid the registration of such horses as purebred animals, in accordance with the standard that has been set for this breed, or should we create a specific new stud book, separate from the current CPC, for a new breed? The author advocates the latter option. This is justified, among other reasons, by the wish to avoid losing out on the excellent sales success of these dappled horses, which currently go for much better prices than those registered as pure CPCs – the former being sold for riding or pure fancy while the latter are sold merely for meat production. What’s more, the dominant character of the pied coat makes its genetic selection easy. Following these considerations, this paper also goes on to propose some new Catalan terms to describe horse coat colours. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biography Pere M. Parés-Casanova, Escola Agrària del Pirineu Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 53: desembre 2022 Section Agroforum License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal QUADERNS AGRARIS, authors accept the following terms: Authors assign to ICEA (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to QUADERNS AGRARIS.Authors answer to ICEA for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.ICEA declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal QUADERNS AGRARIS is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
