Anyones yearlings change colours - going spotty???

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My little filly is forever changing colour so I don't know what she will end up like (though I don't really care). She was born bay (and that was on her passport), was dark brown at six months (black with brown points), then with her summer cost she started to get white flecks and a few white spots so we thought she was Roaning out (We found she couldn't be going grey due to her parents). In the past few weeks she is getting chesnut spots as well as her white spots. She is also starting to look very spotty with wite and brown spots around her muzzle and eyes.

Both parents are dark brown (sire TB) and her mums sire was Piebald and is 1/2 gypsy cob and 1/2 dutch trotter.

Maybe she will turn chesnut.
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Any colour experts (especially spotty ones) have any clue of what is going on.
 
OOOer! Doubt she will be chestnut - sorry
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Very interesting though - please post piccies
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It could be that there is something in mum's sire line that is causing the roaning or spotting - not too up on spotted genes - there are some people on here that know a fair bit though, maybe one of them can help.
 
Never say never if there is some hint of spotted genes involved! It sounds to me like Appaloosa varnish at work that will gradulally fade out a coat leaving spots! There are several cases of mistaken base colours in these horses and the only real way to be sure is to have them tested as per my recent post on the current survey being undertaken.

Heres an example I put together for another forum showing the varnish at work on a near leopard daughter of a fewspot ex a TB mare
http://www.putfile.com/album/179515/?action=slideshow

And this horse with a slower version of the gene

http://www.putfile.com/album/177610/?action=slideshow

Has yours got any other appaloosa characteristics such as mottled skin, stripy hooves on non white legs or white sclera round the eyes? As this gene needs one or two of these to express itself usually? It could be that her mother is a non charateristic that I think are capable with a bit of help of throwing minimal appaloosa coat patterns. Do the parents have any white markings?

I wonder where the gene came from, possibly the coloured was a pintalosa?
 
i have had my mare and foal a year now and the foal was a choclate colour when small .. and the mare black.
now the foal has change to black with the summer coat and now the mare going like a black roan and now a few weeks later shes gone back black!
so now im wondering what the foal will be at a mature age. the stallion was piebald!

my other horse was deep dapple grey and as hes got older hes just white with brown fleck comes through
 
It's difficult to tell with foal coats exactly what they are going to be! But I would say if the foal has moulted out to black then that is probably what he will stay. Unlike the appaloosas the coloured genes are a simple dominant and are visible from the start and won't appear at a later date.

The mare may well have ticking in her coat, my bay has but it is really only noticable in her summer coat.

Unfortunately all greys will go white at varying speeds, I am sure in 20 yrs time they will have found a way to halt that at the dapple stage!!! The brown will probably be remnants of his base coat colour underneath the grey.
 
The mare has only a white snip while the sire has a white star and two white socks. The skin of the filly on her muzzle appears to be a mixture of pink and brown skin. She has stripy hooves and large white spots around her eye's. Her dam has a few white spots (but you have to look for them) which is something her sire throughs out on his black youngstock. I am sure the sire was gypsy coloured however I haven't seen any pics.

Must taqke some pics tonight as the pics on this computer don't show the markings and were taken before the brown spots appeared
 
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Sounds like she has a bit of appaloosa going on there.

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Echo that
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Don't some appaloosas 'spot' out as they get older? I am sure someone told me that once. It could be, if the mare has mottled skin etc that she is a non spot appaloosa (can't remember the correct term for this
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) but do remember chatting to someone who had one at their breed show, she had all the characteristics but no spots on a bay coat, she did throw spots in her youngsters though - interesting!
 
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