Pink skin UNDER pigmented hair?
gypsycobs
October 10, 2011 October 10, 2011
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Hi Everyone
Just wondering if someone can point me in the direction of good articles and or share your own personal knowledge with me regarding lack of skin pigment despite coat pigment.
My Gypsy Cob yearling is a light pally, dark eyes mottled skin on his dock, sheath, testicles, bum and a few little sprinkles in the 'arm pit' region. He is also very heavily mottled so much so that unless you look closely you would just say dark skin around his eyes and muzzle. The rest of his skin is white / pink (same as a double cream dilute) despite having a colour wash if you will over most of his body, he does have some white markings... blaze, four white socks, belly splash, rump splash and a bit on his neck.
His sire is pally, dam is chestnut with white mane and tail.
I have e-mailed D. Phillip Sponenberg and here is our conversation, firstly his reply to basically the above and a whole lot of photos. Basically though Im still none the wiser.
"Hmm. These are tough! I suspect he's a pale palomino sabino with lots
and lots of white. That would explain the dark skin in some areas. As he
matures the "colored" spots will likely end up more obviously gold.
Phil"
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"Thanks for your reply.
So he will possibly darken? He is cream all over really, not a great deal
of white like I said... so there is still a possibility he will darken
despite the fact his skin is pink?
Is there any further reading I can do? I am very interested to know
the in's and out's of all of this.
Would it be wise to re do the SB test? I'm also assuming he carries
splash as the bottom half of his face is white as is his dam.
Is there any where I can look up that will give me an indication of the
types of white he will throw on his foals?
Once again, thank you so much for your time.
Regards,
Melinda"
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"I think he'll likely darken, and then we'll know better what sort of white
patterns he has. He may well have splash, plus or minus sabino."
Thanks
.... so it turns out that
.... so it turns out that Bo's paternal half sister has pigmented coat and pink skin too........
Okay...not making a mental
Okay...not making a mental connection with your post, Thren...are you talking about the old marker tobiano test, or the new Lp test offered by Animal Genetics?