Arkmiido
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I have a beautiful filly by a dapple grey belgian warmblood, out of an ISH mare (Pebble). She is, I believe, a few spot appy. Her dam was a non appaloosa ISH mare, and her sire was ISH grey stallion called McCann (by Cruising) but McCann's dam (Sally O'Brien!!)'s dam is unknown, sire is Cornell's Court. So I have true ISH lines on both sides except for this one unknown line - which is where I think the spots come from.
Pebble's sister, my foal's aunt, is a leopard spot appaloosa. They share McCann as a sire, and their dams were 3/4 sisters (both black, solid coloured mares...) So McCann has the appaloosa gene somewhere and has sired 2 mares, one a few spot, and one a leopard spot, and apparently has sired other ...
So what colour will my filly go? The top pictures is her when she was a couple of days old - she is now grey (almost white) around her eyes and cheeks, her neck and legs are going a combination of light and dark iron grey, she has brown eyebrows, and the white spots on her bottom remain. She has spots in the pigmentation on her udder and under her tail, and pink sclera.
I have a beautiful filly by a dapple grey belgian warmblood, out of an ISH mare (Pebble). She is, I believe, a few spot appy. Her dam was a non appaloosa ISH mare, and her sire was ISH grey stallion called McCann (by Cruising) but McCann's dam (Sally O'Brien!!)'s dam is unknown, sire is Cornell's Court. So I have true ISH lines on both sides except for this one unknown line - which is where I think the spots come from.
Pebble's sister, my foal's aunt, is a leopard spot appaloosa. They share McCann as a sire, and their dams were 3/4 sisters (both black, solid coloured mares...) So McCann has the appaloosa gene somewhere and has sired 2 mares, one a few spot, and one a leopard spot, and apparently has sired other ...
So what colour will my filly go? The top pictures is her when she was a couple of days old - she is now grey (almost white) around her eyes and cheeks, her neck and legs are going a combination of light and dark iron grey, she has brown eyebrows, and the white spots on her bottom remain. She has spots in the pigmentation on her udder and under her tail, and pink sclera.