Foal colour query
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Re: Foal colour query
Oh, how adorable...he looks alot like the minimal frame example that Daylene posted that has blue eyes. :love
Welcome to the forum and feel free to post pixs of all your ponies (and sheep too in the "pets" section - only critter cutier than a new foal is a newborn lamb :flower )
Re: Foal colour query
Thank you for your responses and the miniature is very striking. And yes thanks, he is quite cute and has a very friendly little personality too! His dam is dark bay and unfortunately I don't know the base coat of his grey sire (it wasn't recorded). As we don't breed for colour, I understand the basics for the solid or base colours and also how the dilute and grey factors operate in the Connemara, but generally speaking not a lot else!! So what exactly is white splash and is it something that can be tested for?
Thanks, Catherine
Re: Foal colour query
Splash white is a white spotting gene (very common in a lot of breeds just like sabino), if you go to the homepage of this site you will find info on the basic color genetics including the white genes. I don't see any white on you baby, not even in minimal form (is there some around his feet? it can be as small as a spot) which is the reason we all jump to the conclusion of frame (it can be and is found on solid colored horses like the mini in the example posted). :sad
MP or Horsegen, is it even possible to have a solid splash white? I don't think I have ever heard of one and I am sure I have never seen one. :hammer :HB
Edited once for spelling... :oops:
Re: Foal colour query
Hi Catherine glad to see you made it.
Blue eyes in cases like this are thought to be caused by a white pattern gene in minimal form. The most likely culprits are Frame and Splash.
[img]http://www.equine-color.info/gallery2/m…]
This guy here has tested positive for Frame (LWO)
Photo is cutesy of Celtic Mist Miniatures