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Burtondog I am considering putting coat whitener on my Famous Freddie (my dun) in an attempt to recreate your horses neck!
Also, i saw ur b4 and after post - amazing, well done!
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PatMcFat, thank you. I didn't start having lessons on Tucker until about 9 months after I bought him and he'd already improved a fair bit by the time I found my instructor. Anyway this week I asked my instructor what he thought of Tucker in the before photo and he said he would not have bought him looking like that !! Tucker was a bit funny looking but to be fair that is a really bad photo.
I always thought that buckskin was what Americans called duns. There was no mention of buckskin in my Manual of Horsemanship. Afraid I will continue to call yellow horses with black manes and tails duns, and yellow horses with white manes and tails palaminos!
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Duns MUST have a dorsal stripe, buckskins MAY have one, but equally may not. The dorsal stripe of a true dun will be crisp & clear, as if drawn with a biro & ruler.
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That would make my dapple grey a dun.
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She may well be Pups, she is probably a greying dun.
Sirena is actually a dun and had an eel stripe, darker head and leg bandings - she is now almost pure white (damn and blast it!)
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LOL! She had seemed to be getting lighter, but now we have this mud, she is becoming a more distinct shade of yellow every day!
Buzz's passport says 'Dun Roan' and he's flu and tet card just says 'Dun' His Regeistered name is 'Dun Roamin'' nd so i will continue to discribe him as a 'dun roan' until the day he is no longer with me
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I always thought that buckskin was what Americans called duns. There was no mention of buckskin in my Manual of Horsemanship. Afraid I will continue to call yellow horses with black manes and tails duns, and yellow horses with white manes and tails palaminos!
There are some really beautiful horses on here, no matter what they are called!
I always thought that these two are Chocolate Duns, but no doubt someone will disagree, lol:
Frankly...I know nowt.....but I believe this to be a 'true' dun....he has a pronounced dorsal stripe all year round and tiger stripes on his legs....he is the colur of a cup of tea.....hence his show name 'Time for T'........(Toby)
I always thought buckskin was american awkwardness too
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What colour is your mare? I ask because if you put her to a double dilute (Cremello or Perlino) you would most certainly get a single dilute and, depending on whether her or the stallions base genes are red or agouti (bay), you would either get a buckskin or a palomino.
Fiddlesticks daddy could be a smokey black, which is the single dilute version of black, a palomino being single dilute chestnut and a buckskin being single dilute bay.
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I have always thought as my mare as a dark bay but have been informed that she is infact a Black and tan which is a dominant gene so even if I put her to a double dilute cremello I would probably get a bay as Black and tan is a more dominant a gene...
If your mare is brown (which is what people usually mean when they refer to Black & Tan), then she cannot pass on the bay gene to a foal, as she doesn't have one. She is genetically capable of passing on the colours black, brown & chestnut. I'm not 100% up on the Brown colour, but I think if you were to put your mare to a Cremello stallion, you could get a dilute brown, as the stallion would pass on one copy of cream - the resulting foal would probably look reasonably like a buckskin, if not technically a bay plus a cream gene, as we usually define buckskin. You could however also get a dilute black, or a palomino!
You could have a go at getting a true buckskin foal by putting your mare to a perlino stallion - that would provide not just the cream gene, but the bay gene also.
Varkie did you go to Reading this year?
There was a little stallion which if memory serves me right was listed as a silver dun (if memory serves me right he fetched very good money).
But was he dun? Or is there another "correct" name for that particular colour?
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What colour is your mare? I ask because if you put her to a double dilute (Cremello or Perlino) you would most certainly get a single dilute and, depending on whether her or the stallions base genes are red or agouti (bay), you would either get a buckskin or a palomino.
Fiddlesticks daddy could be a smokey black, which is the single dilute version of black, a palomino being single dilute chestnut and a buckskin being single dilute bay.
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I have always thought as my mare as a dark bay but have been informed that she is infact a Black and tan which is a dominant gene so even if I put her to a double dilute cremello I would probably get a bay as Black and tan is a more dominant a gene...
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Not so, you would get a buckskin, although black and tan is dominant, if you put her to a double dilute, the resulting offspring could have a basecoat of black and tan with one cream gene and would be a single dilute buckskin (black and tan being a version of bay). Cream is like the grey gene - it has an effect on a colour rather than being an actual colour.
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What colour is your mare? I ask because if you put her to a double dilute (Cremello or Perlino) you would most certainly get a single dilute and, depending on whether her or the stallions base genes are red or agouti (bay), you would either get a buckskin or a palomino.
Fiddlesticks daddy could be a smokey black, which is the single dilute version of black, a palomino being single dilute chestnut and a buckskin being single dilute bay.
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I have always thought as my mare as a dark bay but have been informed that she is infact a Black and tan which is a dominant gene so even if I put her to a double dilute cremello I would probably get a bay as Black and tan is a more dominant a gene...
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Not so, you would get a buckskin, although black and tan is dominant, if you put her to a double dilute, the resulting offspring could have a basecoat of black and tan with one cream gene and would be a single dilute buckskin (black and tan being a version of bay). Cream is like the grey gene - it has an effect on a colour rather than being an actual colour.
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Ok now let me try and get this clear in my head
if I put her to a Perlino or a double dilute cremello I could get me a buckskin
trying not to get too excited before I pootle off looking for a stallion....but if I don't get a buckskin would the next likely hood be I get a bay??? thankies... you know I find all this colour genetics very interesting....
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If your mare is brown (which is what people usually mean when they refer to Black & Tan), then she cannot pass on the bay gene to a foal, as she doesn't have one. She is genetically capable of passing on the colours black, brown & chestnut. I'm not 100% up on the Brown colour, but I think if you were to put your mare to a Cremello stallion, you could get a dilute brown, as the stallion would pass on one copy of cream - the resulting foal would probably look reasonably like a buckskin, if not technically a bay plus a cream gene, as we usually define buckskin. You could however also get a dilute black, or a palomino!
You could have a go at getting a true buckskin foal by putting your mare to a perlino stallion - that would provide not just the cream gene, but the bay gene also.
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Right soooo my Black/Tan (brown) mare has just had a foal..who I presumed was going to be bay but you think she couldnt pass that colouration on now the stallion is a dk bay who doesnt carry the chestnut gene so chestnut is out...but foal is losing his foal fluff and he looks very very dark almost black so black could be a possibility but just interested to see what you/anyone else thinks..
joeann - sadly, my friends truck broke down on the way to Reading, but my friend took a pic on her phone of the stallion you mention. He is indeed a dun - genetically black dun, but people tend to call it silver dun, blue dun, or grulla / grullo.
CA - if you put your mare to a double dilute stallion (cremello / perlino / smokey cream) you cannot get a plain bay - you will definitely get a single dilute - palomino, buckskin, smokey black etc. Double dilutes will always pass on one copy of cream.