What colour do you think this youngster will turn out ? Dappled or flea bitten ?

[Lauralou2014]

Hi I’m looking to getting this 19 month old filly with the hope she may turn dappled over the years… her mum is dappled her dad is cremello but I’m not sure if she may be more flea bitten ??

 

[TheMule]

She will go dappled and then white. Some go flea bitten, some don’t, but all lose their dapples and turn white in time, some quicker than others

 

[FieldOrnaments]

Dappling is part of the process of greying as melanocytes stop producing pigment; later on some can start again due to aberrant cell signalling to produce flea bites (grey is a disorder of melanocyte function, iirc due to differences in inter and intra cell communication & protein kinase docking

 

[Lauralou2014]

I know she will turn white eventually just wondering if dappled or flea bitten in the process xx

 

[ester]

It’s not an either or question, if flea bites happen after they have the dapple stage (which may last a while, may not) and gone white.

 

[Trot_on]

She might go a kind of lovely rose grey dapple then white and eventually fleabitten x

 

[marmalade76]

I know she will turn white eventually just wondering if dappled or flea bitten in the process xx

Fleabitten greys don't go white with age, they get more fleabitten with age, some so much they're more fleabitten than white.

 

[Lois Lame]

She's a little pale for her age of 18 months.

My grey mare was almost black when I got her as a 2yo. She was for quite a long time dappled and very attractive, paler and paler, and then fleabitten. She was always a handsome girl, but our temperaments didn't match. I like sooky. She was independent.

I didn't choose her for her colour. I chose her because she was a good sort, though not a good sort for me, I came to realise.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

In my experience not all greys go through a dappled phase. If you watch racing where there are many greys you will see some that just seem to get paler and paler. She will be what she will be and no way of forecasting reliably except that she will end up white. Given how pale she is already it won't take long.

 

[FieldOrnaments]

She's lovely regardless of color

 

[ihatework]

I think she will turn out grey. And she is yet to identify which kind of grey.

 

[Gloi]

She's a lovely sweet looking girl x

 

[Lauralou2014]

Thanks everyone yeah she is a Irish Draught cross section D x

 

[FieldOrnaments]

I think she will turn out grey. And she is yet to identify which kind of grey.

The hard to keep clean sort.
The questioning-your-sanity-in-January sort.
The 'should I take out shares in purple shampoo?' sort.
And finally....
The 's0d it, pass the chalk!' sort

 

[AandK]

My grey was dappled, then started to get fleabitten as he greyed out.

 

[dorsetladette]

I think she'll go a shade of rose grey getting lighter. I also think she'll look stunning as she gets paler with the dark mane and tail.

 

[tristars]

Fleabitten greys don't go white with age, they get more fleabitten with age, some so much they're more fleabitten than white.

I have one such, he's almost chestnut, it's my fave colour

But I love greys and chestnuts