Colour experts! What colour IS my horse??

TBH I don't think it would be worth testing, phenotype tells you what is going on unless wanting to know agouti status for breeding. (and no, the gene responsible for sooty phenotype has not been identified).

It is interesting as we do seem to get this phenotype in our natives a fair bit but it confuses people abroad.
 
Wagtail said:
No, apparently there isn't at present. Have either parent turned grey, OP? It's just that his mane which started off white is becoming pigmented and this often happens at the start of the greying process. So if you're not sure on the parents, I would test for grey too as dam had a grey parent and often they are registered as dun before they grey, so dam may be grey.
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His dam definitely wont grey out; she's been tested by the stud she's been used at for the past 10 years or so. Not sure what that means for Raffy tho. The dark on his legs and body is definitely chocolate rather than black; except his mane, which went from 100% flaxen to the colour it is now over night during his 3rd year. He spent a while with a horizontal stripe of flaxen mane growing out from the moment the mane triggered to the darker colour it's now changed to. It was pretty weird for a while until it grew out. Lol.
 
ester said:
TBH I don't think it would be worth testing, phenotype tells you what is going on unless wanting to know agouti status for breeding. (and no, the gene responsible for sooty phenotype has not been identified).

It is interesting as we do seem to get this phenotype in our natives a fair bit but it confuses people abroad.
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Ah, didn't know sooty wasn't id yet. x
 
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His dam definitely wont grey out; she's been tested by the stud she's been used at for the past 10 years or so. Not sure what that means for Raffy tho. The dark on his legs and body is definitely chocolate rather than black; except his mane, which went from 100% flaxen to the colour it is now over night during his 3rd year. He spent a while with a horizontal stripe of flaxen mane growing out from the moment the mane triggered to the darker colour it's now changed to. It was pretty weird for a while until it grew out. Lol.
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In that case he definitely won't grey out as grey is dominant and so a horse has to have at least one grey parent to be grey themselves.
 
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