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*thud* *faints* Color people heads up...

Probably one of the coolest colors I've EVER seen! [img]http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo189/fohlen/Daydream%20Believer/Nov…]

Equidae Mon, 03/22/2010 - 06:22

flaxen liver chestnut with roan or is he going grey? the face is confusing me a bit.

I like those dark livers with the orangey looking flaxen manes/tails...didn't used to...but I've seen some real neat ones....a friend of mine used to own an ASB mare who was liver with the orangey flaxen mane and tail.

TheRedHayflinger Mon, 03/22/2010 - 11:55

i'd say going grey for sure, but I've seen a couple of not going grey (impossible...no grey parents, and not appy), young true roan horses with roaning on the face (around eyes/muzzle). I think ACC might have shown me one of them, and someone elsewhere showed me another.

Jenks Mon, 03/22/2010 - 14:59

Danni - you must be in Georgia? no? Same here! My greys are always Ga red clay color! If only they could get it uniformly spread.....

But the odder thing is that grey usually turns them dark first -including the mane - as on his lower legs. I wonder what could have stopped it? That why the flaxen guess?

Morgan Mon, 03/22/2010 - 15:00

wow! that is cool!
[quote="Danni"]Any white bits on my horses end up that colour (orange) if I don't regulary wash them!!!! So that grey looks like it could have come off my place :lol:[/quote]
:lol: I finally got to see the Cloud documentary (don't ask, I live under a rock >.>) and really loved the part where she finds him "cheeto colored" :rofl

Danni Mon, 03/22/2010 - 17:32

Ok well that's pretty cool then, being a roan not grey!! Pity doesn't have the dark liver face though, I like contrasts! Why does it have the roany face? Because sabino is at work or roan often does that anyway?

[quote="hoofpick"]Lol @ danni... yep the clydesdales feathers go like that after being left in Nappy san for too long![/quote]

Really?! Gosh I've often wondered if I should use something like nappy san to get the orange OUT of the feather, I certainly won't now LOL!! It will make them worse by the sounds of it!!

Danni Mon, 03/22/2010 - 17:38

I've been looking at the horse again, I like the colour better know I know it's not grey :oops: I especially like the orange on it's legs too, to match :D It's actually a very nice horse too!! Pretty with a nice bit of bone, just my style :D

rabbitsfizz Tue, 03/23/2010 - 11:25

Interesting to see how the foal turns out, and my guess is, since there is not Grey in either of these atypical Roans, that it is Sabino at play.
Roan does not "do that sometimes"
In my whole life I have [i]never [/i] seen Roan do that, and I don't think it is Roan doing it here, either, I think there is something else going on, and vote for Sabino.
Roans have solid heads and pints.
Something else, affecting the exhibition of Roan, can cause that to disappear, but Roan doesn't.

rabbitsfizz Tue, 03/23/2010 - 14:36

It may surprise you to know that while I have bred horses all my life, I have only actually had Minis for just over thirty years......and a lot of that time I was still breeding Minis, so my experience of colour and pattern is mainly in big horses.
It is only the last twenty years (gosh, is it even that long?) that I have been confined to Minis.
And I still think there is something else going on in those e two horses :rofl

accphotography Tue, 03/23/2010 - 14:46

"only had Minis 30 years". "ONLY" :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

I would say that maybe minis have a different mutation of roan than Quarter Horses... but I just looked and UC Davis has expanded their test to include both breeds, so I guess that's not right. They're not including Brabants though, how often have alot of roaning on their face.

No white on that bay roan btw.

Third Peppermint Tue, 03/23/2010 - 17:46

I agree with ACC because roan seems to do weird things sometimes. I had no idea it could turn a mane and tail silver, so why can't it get on the face and legs? A lot of the silvery-maned horses DID have white flecks on their faces, if not silvery faces as well. Maybe it has to be maximally expressed or homozygous or something. Granted, there could be something else, but I wouldn't turn my back on it.

Monsterpony Tue, 03/23/2010 - 20:19

I've been casually looking into roan and I have found that I can pick out the QH roan (particularly Hancock lines) from others and that it tends to express further into the face and legs than European roans. Also, I have seen a lot of extremely minimal roan expression in QHs as well. It makes me wonder if, since roan is a KIT mutation and we all know how unstable KIT is, there are multiple classic roan like genes. It would explain how it seems to be lethal in some breeds and not in others.