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Anyone get the Equus magazine?

Third Peppermint January 20, 2012 January 20, 2012

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I do for the grins, but this month's got me excited because on of the main topics was equine coat color genetics. It was... rather outdated and not entirely accurate. Such a bummer! Let's just say they only mention that pearl on a chestnut-based horse, they don't mention seal brown (At), they have "overo" as a pattern, and their sabino looks awfully dominant white. Actually, they don't mention dominant white either. Ugh.

CrookedHalo09 Fri, 01/20/2012 - 19:12

I got mine in the mail today but haven't even looked at it yet. Looks like I'll be doing some reading tonight lol.

Threnody Sat, 01/21/2012 - 12:27

That is quite a bit outdated. I took a moment this week to check out some old horse genetics books at my college library, and I think my eyebrow was raised most of the time from the outdated concepts. One had the D locus as the cause for both black horses and liver chestnuts. O.o

JNFerrigno Sat, 01/21/2012 - 17:34

Honestly, with the resources that are out there on the internet. Having something that outdated is no excuse for a journalist. For me, that's very sloppy copy and paste work on their part. Like they needed a quick filler.