Strawberry roan - Really?

[Wagtail]

if you get a photo bucket account and copy the IMG code on the right paste it in and then delete the URL bits so you'v just got the bit surround by

Thats an interesting thought Wagtail there is one at work out of two very minimally marked parents, dam has ermine marks on one white foot and striped feet and her last year foal has a massive white face and 4 white legs and white sclera but still has the ermine marks which I thought was a sign of a white supressing gene just interesting the degree of white he has.[/QUOTE]

I had a huge Irish Draught with lots of white on his face and two white stockings on his hinds but also ermine marks. But I agree, usually horses with very minimal white have ermine marks.

 

[Fides]

if you get a photo bucket account and copy the IMG code on the right paste it in and then delete the URL bits so you'v just got the bit surround.

If you use the one titled 'direct link' you can copy and paste it
Without deleting anything hth

 

[risky business]

I find these threads regarding 'colour' really interesting! I learn something new everytime I read one

 

[ClobellsandBaubles]

I find it fascinating I was also wondering if the agouti gene suppresses sabino somehow as a lot of the really loud ones are chestnut but then I thought about clydies and I got confused
That makes much more sense Fides

 

[JLD]

JLD - can you post a photo of your roan? Chestnut does come in lots of shades, you can imagine, for example that a liver chestnut strawberry roan would not look exactly the same as the one in the photo.

Sorry am rubbish as posting pictures it never works. My boy has a really rich dark red chestnut head that roans only very slightly in summer. His body colour is always slightly roaned in winter but goes very much paler in summer. His dam was bay but I think greyed out late as is bay/grey on his passport, all his grand parents on his dams side greyed out but there was both bay roan and chestnut roan further back. His sire was a coloured cob but I don't know anymore. I am guessing he got roan from his dams side and obviously tobiano from his sire. He has no black markings but a little black in his tail. He is nearly 11 so I doubt he will grey out now.