Does anyone know what colour this is?
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laurenk wrote:His full sister
[quote=laurenk]His full sister tested the same but she looks like a true flaxen chestnut we thought he was a black silver until we got him tested. It has been suggested sooty something?[/quote]It's easy to tell if a horse has the sooty allele- just look at your horse closely. The sooty allele will mix in black hairs, especially throughout the upper portion of the body. The shade allele will just darken, but to me this looks more similar to a sooty chestnut. :)
rabbitsfizz wrote:Shade
[quote=rabbitsfizz]Shade allele???[/quote]Okay, perhaps it's just a term? I had read about it a bit in one of Sponenberg's book on equine color genetics. I still don't understand shade very well at all, but it still is a factor. Or, at least a term used to define darker or lighter hairs vs. lighter hairs with black hairs mixed in.
rabbitsfizz wrote:I don't
[quote=rabbitsfizz]I don't actually think it is. Shade has nothing to do with colour genetics. A chestnut is a chestnut- you get dark ones and you get light ones, unless they are affected by sooty they are just, genetically, the same.[/quote]Okay, that makes sense. Thanks :)
He's a dark flaxen chestnut.
He's a dark flaxen chestnut. I think Morgans commonly have the super dark chestnuts now that I think of it.