chocolate palomino?
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Re: chocolate palomino?
[quote="CMhorses"]I would agree with the black silver. Unless the sire is a smokey black, palomino is impossible. [/quote]
and on the other note, both parents being black based one of them should show the silver as well.
That looks like a fresh body clip, it's possible to be a flaxen liver chestnut showing skin color through (though it does look a heck of a lot like a black silver).
Re: chocolate palomino?
[quote="Morgan"]any unclipped pics or a picture of the tail dock? (if there is a point of body hairs left unclipped that I think I see.[/quote]
I agree... Remember how the flaxen chestnut turned paly when clipped...
I'd love to see more pictures of her. She has a nice head. A noble look almost.
Re: chocolate palomino?
unclipped - winter coat
[img]http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k7/mo…]
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her dam is the bay (that you can see all of in 2nd pic) and beside her is a sorrel with flaxen mane and tail, so definately not even close to sorrel.
she has tested negative for silver, champagne and pearl, when the sun shines there is a gold shimmer to her coat and
her hooves are a fudge colour.
you can see dam better in next one - definately bay, sire true black
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she then turned a peachy colour
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so what else could it be ???????????
Re: chocolate palomino?
[quote="Unicorn"]
she has tested negative for silver, champagne and pearl, when the sun shines there is a gold shimmer to her coat and
her hooves are a fudge colour.[/quote]
She as in the Dam? Also she could still be a smokey black instead of a bay.
Heres a picture of a smokey black that could pass as a bay that I grabbed from another post.
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Do you have any other pictures of the Dam? Possibly in a summer coat. Even the sire could be hiding cream,but imo the dam seems more likely based on her color.
Re: chocolate palomino?
It appears to be a new (well, semi new) red modifier:
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It doesn't dilute, and if anything darkens the color. But it doesn't darken like liver would, it appears to take the red out completely and make the horse look black based (black silver to be specific). It's very odd.
Re: chocolate palomino?
After reading all the previous threads, I think most likely mushroom or possibly choc pally. Do choc pallys generally have such clean coloured flaxen? I would have expected a bit of sootiness in the mane and tail.
If it is mushroom, gosh it does mimick black silver very well! I wonder if they'll find this modifer in bigger horses.
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Trust me she isn't Palomino.
Mushroom throws Chestnut most of the time, it seems a bit random, so I look on it as an interesting nuisance.
Maybe if we could dissect it genetically a bit more.?
Anyway it is fairly common in proper Shetlands, and, at the moment, has only been identified in them.
I wish they had though of a bit better name for it, though.
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[quote="accphotography"]Apricot. :rofl[/quote]
Depends...with the Iberian breeders, it was always pearl. What was going on with the Barlink horses was thought to be something different than pearl, and there was a problem with calling it "barlink" (legalities, IIRC), and so they were going to call it "apricot", but then they discovered that the Barlink horses were actually genetically pearl.
Diane
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Well, I always called it "Lavender" before anyone decided to investigate it....there was one stud that had it almost endemic, I think possibly H/Z...no-one was interested in my knowledge of the colour when they suddenly "discovered" it which made me very wary of everything that this person now says...she really did get quite cross when I argued a few points....it seems when someone has something "rare" they really REALLY do not like having it pointed out that it is not, in fact "rare" but has been around for donkeys years!!!
She seems very nice otherwise :laugh1
Re: chocolate palomino?
Looks more Silver Black than Pally- though could be the lighting.
What color were the grandparents on the sires side?