My brain hurts... supposed to be palomino but isn't??
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Third Peppermint wrote:Maybe
[quote=Third Peppermint]Maybe it's one of those freak mutations where the gene is restored to wild type? Rats can spontaneously revert from albino back to non-albino. Supposedly, from this handbook we have rom Charles River.[/quote]
Not that this has anything to do with that horse, but I didn't know what you were talking about so I just looked that up and that's really, really interesting... just thought I'd share that :grin:
It is weirdly interesting to
It is weirdly interesting to me, too. I wonder if that can happen in horses - the cream gene being repaired?
I bet the foal is a dark, dark palomino. After browsing I've seen a couple that LOOK chestnut, but SHOULD be palomino and eventually are tested to be so. Just another way horses can try to throw us off their trail.
Who's the sire?
Do you have a pedigree or any pixs of the sire?
Not saying he isn't what he is proported to be, but I ran across a horse last month that I would have swore was a cremello but turned out to be a splash white, max sabino (splash gave her the blue eyes). I was so sure until I looked at her pedigree (parents chestnut QH-based Paints) and there wasn't a cream within 3 generations...she sure was pretty, but alas was NOT cremello, and as such, would not produce cream babies.
Oops, okay found the sire..definitely cremello...ee/AA so that rules that out. The foal has to be either a dark pali going grey or somebody messed up somewhere.
My gut says this one is going
My gut says this one is going to be grey to be honest.
Here is a pally born red chestnut. He is very clearly a pally now ~x(
http://www.horseforum.com/horse-colors-…
Here are some gray champagne
Here are some gray champagne examples. Really dark compared to other champagne foals who lack gray.
http://www.ichregistry.com/images/Hesa_…
An update on this one. The OP
An update on this one. The OP was banned over on the Horse Forum, the general feeling was that she was making up tales about non existent horses. Someone also pointed out that the pic of the dam as a foal doesn't match the pic of the dam as an adult - the white marking that was present as a foal left no pink skin on the muzzle of the adult horse.
All in all, this looks like a fabricated tale and so we were right to have boggling minds :BH
Oh man, I don't feel looney
Oh man, I don't feel looney anymore... lol
I mean, it was plausible since being grey most likely, born very dark but most of the palominos who look chestnut still have a slight gold sheen to him. He looked red as red could be...
Genetics, why you do this to me?? lol
Assuming there was no mix up
Assuming there was no mix up with the stud/semen, I Would probably say just a really dark pally going gray.