Appaloosa pattern?
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He was this color:
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Also, the picture was taken on my phone, so her tail isn't as dark as it looks. She actually is a very ew color. Like a cross of grey and brown...
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She's this color, almost exactly: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt…" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I think this horse could be a brother. LOL. Ew.
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I worked with an appy that base color (but she was a solid--she did have a big ol' blaze and a sock though)...from a distance she looked bay..up close she was very liver chestnut looking. She was a headcase, fun, but still a headcase. Both her parents were the sanest animals alive too..haha
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[quote="Andrea"]Is snowcap the same as varnish?
She's out of a palomino and a chestnut... She looks even less like a palomino... LOL.
So if she's bred to a non-appy, what are the chances the baby will be snowcap? Is it just 50/50?[/quote]
A snow-cap is the homozygous version of a blanket. When an appy carries two copies of the Lp allele, then they will have a white pattern without the spots in the pattern. That means that she will always throw an Lp allele when bred. What size the pattern will be depends on what sort of white factor (PATN) genes that both she and the sire carry. Lp allows for the pattern to show up, the PATN determines the size of the pattern present.
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They can be born that big or can extend through varnishing. Just like some horses are born with a spotted blanket and can varnish out to a leopard appearance or they can be born a full leopard. My horse, Tony, had a snowcap that covered his rump and was otherwise solid (ie-no varnish) as a foal. By the time I got him, at age 22, he almost completely varnished out.
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One thing to remember about Lp, it funkifies black, so there's a very good chance this mare is black...on the other hand, our bay fewspot/snowcap mare is bay and darker (where she had colour), and her daughter is probably bay, and is darker in colour.
The pattern [i]could[/i] be snowcap with varnish, but she also has a blaze, which could be making for a false snowcap (sabino, etc., seem to have a "push" effect on Lp and helps make/extend the white expression). She does have lightening/flash marks on her legs (the white splashes), which seems to only occur with blankets, so she's got some sort of blanket pattern.
Diane
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Thanks am learning more about the illusive LP which helps as I am trying to sell this little chap for a friend who is a genuine snowcap -
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cute isn't he and going for a Song !!!
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Diane she cannot be Black if she is Palomino X Chestnut......
I see an extended Snowcap with Sabino and some Varnish, but Varnish extends with age, so yes, unless the roaning is, of course, caused by the Sabino (and I would test her for LWO just to be absolutely safe) then the roaning will extend with age but you will not necessarily end up with a white horse, horses roan out at different speeds.
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That's working on the assumption that the parents' colours are right ;)
<~~~~ducks back to beginning of thread to double check if parent photos were there....there WAS a reason why I mentioned funkified black, but the last episode of Lost is on, and the brain is somewhat singularly focused!
Okay, back for another quick take...I mentioned black because appy colours are probably some of the worst for being misidentified. Having a "black"-registered bay and a "bay"-registered black sort of helps me in that thinking .
I did note that the OP says that they know the mare is chestnut, but no mention of colour testing, so is this knowledge based on solely on the supposed colour of the parents of the mare?
Diane
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What ACC said. Lp can (and does) make for some really weird things with base colour. Our stallion was so chocolate at birth, bay is the only colour, without testing, that made sense. Princess and her mother are both very "black" looking (dam is tested bay, and because I want Princess to be black, I know she's bay. LOL). In fact, Princess was jet-black at birth, and then "developed" caramel colouring on her flanks, which is now back to looking charcoal.
Diane
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OK I am guessing now but I would have said either varnish or snowcap extended blanket ??!! :?