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Horse Color Dilutes – Champagne Gene
Champagne Characteristics There are a few characteristics exclusive to animals affected by champagne, which makes it one of the dilutions that can be visually identified with a reasonable degree of accuracy. It is one of the few dilution genes that affect the skin as well, making it a dusty pink color. They can also have […]
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Horse Color White Patterns – Paint and Pinto
Types of Pinto Pinto white patterns have an affect on any base, modifier or dilution and come in perhaps the widest variety of colors & patterns. Overo Sabino Splashed White Tobiano Tovero Manchado Dominant White Pintaloosa More Colors Colors Base Modifiers Dilutions White Patterns Rare Markings
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Horse Color Dilutes – Silver Gene
Silver Basics Although it only affects dark pigments, silver is rather dramatic and it gives simple black a little sparkle. While it does have an effect on bays, it creates the most notable change on black and brown animals, changing their coloring entirely. Black Base Bay Base Brown Base Silver Modified and Diluted Silver can […]
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Horse Color White Patterns – Appaloosa
Appaloosa Characteristics While the patterns vary widely from animal to animal, there are a few characteristics that remain constant across all animals affected by this white pattern. Mottled skin White Sclera Striped hooves Rat Tail Appaloosa Patterns There are an immeasurable number of patterns in the appaloosa spectrum and they can be mixed and matched. […]
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Horse Color White Patterns – Grey
Grey Shades Every grey horse will go through a variety of striking stages during the greying out process, which also varies by horse, breed, base color and local conditions. Not all animals will show dappling, technically called progressive depigmentation, but it certainly makes for flashy seasonal changes. The different stages of an aging grey animal […]
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Horse Color Bases – Bay
Bay Shades There is a wide variety of bay colors which vary a great deal by animal and breed. For the most part, they fall under the generalized categories below, which will have some crossover and regional variation. Mahogany Bay Blood Bay Copper Bay Standard Bay Golden Bay Wildtype Bay Modifiers on Bay Coats The […]
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Horse Color Dilutes – Dun Gene
Dun Characteristics The dun dilution causes primitive markings on the animal which occur in a wide variety of combinations that vary between breeds, base colors and animals. While they have a variety of marking types, duns generally do not have normal dappling, but they can have reverse dappling. Below are examples of some of the […]
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Mary Poppins Meets the Exorcist
Clearly whoever put this together had some top notch editing skills, a sick sense of humor and a twisted obsession with Mary Poppins.
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Horse Color Dilutes – Cream Gene
Single Dilute Cream Shades A single cream gene can have a rather dramatic affect on chestnut, bay and brown coats, creating some of the most sought after and beloved colors. Note that only in chestnut horses is the mane and tail hair affected by a single dose. Chestnut Base Bay Base Brown Base Double Dilute […]
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Ride Little Monkey, Ride!
I can’t decide if the monkey looks cool, calm and collected or if he looks scared for his life.
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Base Horse Coat Colors – Chestnut
Chestnut Shades There is a rainbow of reds in the chestnut family, but they all fall under one of four categories. Luckily the chestnut colors are slightly different genetically, which provides us a rather tidy way to reference them. Traditionally how chestnut colored horses are categorized can vary between countries and breeds, regardless of their […]
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Base Horse Coat Colors – Black
Although there aren’t different shades of black, there are three types – fading, non-fading and seasonal. Non-Fading Black Fading Black Seasonal Black Modifiers and Dilutions on Black Coats Black based animals are not affected by most of the coat modifiers, however a few of the dilution genes have a fairly drastic affect on black hairs. […]