Lets play a game...guess the breed/colour

again easy breed but colour is a bit harder she has no grey parents or grandparents
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Yeah she can't be any sort of max white with that muzzle/eyes

or a few spot.. which might be the other possibility.. although a close up of head would be better for that.

I'm wondering if this is a case of funky colour registration rather than genetic colour registration ;)
 
windand rain said:
She is a pure bred HIghland and isnt actually white but the colour of milk slightly creamy with creamy pink dapples, it is odd
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Then I suspect she is dun gone grey. No doubt one of her parents would have been grey despite the registration papers. They are often incorrectly registered as the greying process can be slowed by the dun gene. I agree with faracat and Ester, she is grey.
 
Yes as I said, highland colour registrations are funky.

She for sure had a grey gene, and is greying so the effect you see is just an effect of her original colour whatever it was.
 
As there seems to be a few colour knowledgeable people on here, could somebody tell me how an appy foal went from this:

As a foal
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to this?
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Is there such a thing as spots greying out, like greys do?
 
Dusty was that appy that black on being born? It looks like she has grey too so her spots have greyed out and if you get her wet they will still be there? You can still see her appiness from her mottled lips though (and probably genitals too)/stripey hooves?

Mystic warrior he is an excellent case of this,
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I think he is probably body clipped here so the faint skin spots are visible
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Of course appys also 'grey' by roaning from LP (The gene) but she doesn't look like that, it usually leave some colour on legs/ears.

Horsekaren yours is chestnut (red) with a sabino-type roaning pattern, iirc most gypsy cob types that look like this tend not to test SB1 (the currently identified 'sabino') and we haven't identified the causative gene yet. She's also be known as a red blagdon over here :).
 
Thanks ester - was hoping you'd reply :o

No idea what she looked like when she was born, think she was less than a year old when the top photo was taken for her passport. She is 15 now and I only got her this year so unfortunately I don't know what she looked like as a 5/6/7yo when presumably the spots would have been still visible but feint. In the bottom pic she is actually clipped out, I thought her spots might be more visible that way, but I think she'd have to be clipped and wet for them to really show. Yes the mottled eyes, nose and stripey hooves are the only giveaway now that she is a spotty, but personally I'd never come across a appy that 'lost' spots through fading (does this mean she has a grey parent?), only those that gained more appy colouring with age (like a snowflake appy that gets increasingly more frosting, that would be the LP gene then?).
 
what website do you use for pics? it just asks for a URL but the ones I use don't work. How do you clever peeps insert a pic so it appears on the post ?
 
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