what colour are your cushings horses?

[LeneHorse]

I wonder if there is any link between coat colour and cushings? If anyone knows of any research on this I would be interested in links.
Out of interest, if you own, or are acquainted with, any cushings horses/ponies could you say what colour they are. (I was trying to create a poll but don't think it worked)

 

[ElleSkywalker]

One chestnut, one smokey black (black with a dilute gene)

 

[Chinchilla]

Henry's chestnut tobiano.

 

[Sandstone1]

My vet recently told me that Grey's are more likely to get cushings. I don't know if that's true but she seemed to think research had been done on it. No idea where to find it.

 

[Fools Motto]

in my time I've dealt with cushings, 2 bay ponies, 2 grey ponies, and a dark bay horse.

 

[rascal]

Jimmy as an appaloosa cross, he was skewbald as a foal and yearling and ended up with a few spots.

Simba is a chestnut shetland.

Misty was a grey welsh sec b.

 

[Cortez]

I've had two, one black, one bay.

 

[Chinchilla]

My vet recently told me that Grey's are more likely to get cushings. I don't know if that's true but she seemed to think research had been done on it. No idea where to find it.

Figures, really; greys are more prone to melanomas (cancers) and PPID is a tumour in the pituitary glad isn't it?

 

[Pearlsasinger]

The Draft mare was bright bay, the Appaloosa a chestnut with spotted skin and varnish marks. The Shire who I now suspect had Cushings, aged 6, was also bright bay. The cob who had a tumour somewhere which caused her to become ataxic (may or may not have been undiagnosed Cushings) was black and white.

 

[Gloi]

One red dun, one black

 

[LeneHorse]

My vet recently told me that Grey's are more likely to get cushings. I don't know if that's true but she seemed to think research had been done on it. No idea where to find it.

interesting. My thoughts were that greys might be more prone to it so it would be fascinating if there was evidence to back this up.

 

[JillA]

I put chestnut for the old mare who is no longer with us but my gelding also has it now, he is dark bay, almost black

 

[cowgirl16]

One - a grey.

 

[teddypops]

Piebald

 

[Kezzabell2]

I don't have her any more.

i've voted as dun, as that's what I bought her as but she was really a buckskin, and that option wasn't there.

 

[Rosiejazzandpia]

Dun/buckskin and a chestnut

 

[TheresaW]

Dolly is piebald.
Bren who is no longer with us was chestnut.

 

[Cecile]

I'm sure I am doing something wrong, I seem to have voted only 1 grey but wanted to vote
2 Grey's + 1 bay (Only 1 grey was voted)

 

[Wagtail]

The problem is, bay is by far the most common colour so it will score high. As a proportion of cushings horses it may not be that high. My cushings horse was bay.

 

[splashgirl45]

my old cushings horse was liver chestnut.(very dark) so i voted chestnut.... pony at my yard is grey ....

 

[Nudibranch]

I had one bay, one liver chestnut and one piebald (sabino).

 

[ester]

as a colour geek I've certainly never heard of any connection!

 

[Cecile]

Who knows? Its not that long ago they found out people with red hair had added health bonuses or possible health problems,
maybe Liphook could keep the details of colour when they run all these tests to see if they ever see a link or not, it would only be ticking a colour box

http://www.medicaldaily.com/8-ways-having-red-hair-affects-persons-health-pain-sex-348198

 

[rara007]

One chestnut

 

[JJS]

Mine is a grey, but seeing as it seems to be particularly common amongst little, long-lived pony breeds, many of them with grey quite predominant in the gene pool, that's not really surprising. I've also known blacks, bays, chestnuts, palominos, buckskins and coloureds with the condition, so think it's unlikely to be tied to colour.