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Need opinions

on the new donkey color genetics page. http://www.equine-color.info/node/13 I do plan on getting pictures up as soon as I get them.

CMhorses Sun, 02/22/2009 - 15:02

Well I was disappointed on the lack of opinions, but the page has been updated with photos.

Paintlover Sun, 02/22/2009 - 18:02

It looks nice to me!! I am not as familiar with donkey genetics but everything seems to be in order.

CMhorses Sun, 02/22/2009 - 18:22

The genetics for donkeys are very similar to horses. I'm trying to get more people familiar with the colors to hopefully get more people to own them thus leading the scientists? to do more research on their genetics.
Also they make great pets! Very different from horses attitude wise.

Daylene Alford Sun, 02/22/2009 - 18:49

That page looks wonderful! I'm going to go ahead and add it to the primary links.

Monsterpony Sun, 02/22/2009 - 21:30

The page is very cool. I really don't know much about donkey genetics, but it does look fairly similar to horses. The only pics that I have of donkeys are of our one very obese grey dun Miniature Mediterranean.

CMhorses Sun, 02/22/2009 - 23:19

Well I need pictures of donkeys without panger and just plain base colors only. Also need more with spotting. I was hoping more people would have a donkey or two but I guess people dont find them as adorable as horses, but I would recomend one as a pet! My Ellie is the sweetest, strangest thing.Also mini and regular donkies are good guard animals.

NZ Appaloosas Tue, 02/24/2009 - 15:47

I actually haven't been navigating around much on the site :oops: Things are somewhat hectic at the moment (to the point where I forgot about a new mare we're getting).

Diane

critterkeeper Wed, 02/25/2009 - 10:00

Nice site -- now all you need is one of those "appy" spotted ones (they are so adorable).

Diane - you FORGOT a new horse? What have you been drinking woman??? If it's that good, want to share? :toast

Sara Wed, 02/25/2009 - 11:02

Do you want the donkey page proofread? I don't know enough about the genetics to comment on that, but I'm pretty good at catching spelling and grammatical errors. I wasn't sure if that's what you wanted so I had not commented.

Daylene Alford Wed, 02/25/2009 - 11:26

ROFL I actually know someone who has one of those appy spotted minimules...let me see if i can get a picture from her...

CMhorses Wed, 02/25/2009 - 15:13

Yea, it needs to be proof read and made sure that things that are there sound like the make sence...and it is being updated several times a week as I find more things about color. About mules, I thought about putting together a small page about them as I did find some information about what color patterns you [i]usually[/i] get from different color crosses and whatnot.

Sara Wed, 02/25/2009 - 15:56

the plural of donkey is donkeys.

[quote]Donkey color genetics have not been well discovered, but is being researched more as breeding donkies becomes more popular.[/quote]

I would say something like "Donkey color genetics are not yet well understood, but are being researched more as breeding donkeys becomes more popular."

[quote]Sorrel(red)
Black pigment is surpressed and body color is a reddish color.Can only be [i]heterozygous[/i](ee) since sorrel is a recessive gene.[/quote]

Wouldn't this be homozygous?

[quote]Ivory is very similar to double diluted horses.[/quote]

I would change double dilute to homozygous cream to avoid confusion since there are other dilutions.

[quote]Donkies without pangare are rare, but not too uncommon.[/quote]

This sounds conflicting. I would say "Donkeys without pangare are rare but do exist."

[quote]Effects red and black[/quote]

Someone correct me if I have this one wrong, but I'm pretty sure that when it is a verb, it is spelled affects.

[quote]Spotting is a dominant to non spotting[/quote]

remove the "a" between is and dominant.

The plural of mini is minis. (without an apostrophe)

CMhorses Wed, 02/25/2009 - 16:21

ok, I fixed what you said. How does it look? and what does it still need besides pictures?
Also I do plan on being more descriptive about the different roan colors.

Monsterpony Wed, 02/25/2009 - 16:32

[quote="Sara Bosch"]Someone correct me if I have this one wrong, but I'm pretty sure that when it is a verb, it is spelled affects.[/quote]

You're correct. Affect is the verb and effect is a noun.

Sara Wed, 02/25/2009 - 16:34

oops! I just caught another spelling error -- suppressed.

and in the dun section, almost the same instead of the almost same.

You missed a few donkey plurals..

and a question. Is homozygous spotting thought to be lethal?

Looks good, now you just need more photos! :)

NZ Appaloosas Wed, 02/25/2009 - 16:42

[quote="critterkeeper"]
Diane - you FORGOT a new horse? What have you been drinking woman??? If it's that good, want to share? :toast[/quote]

In my defence, she's not with us yet, we only contracted for her a while back, based on my liking her when I last saw her over a year ago.

Diane

CMhorses Wed, 02/25/2009 - 16:50

Homozygous spotting gene is thought to be leathal (similar to LWO) but it has not been proven yet. AMDS(american mule? and donkey society) requests that anyone that has a pure white or almost white foal that dies soon after birth or is born dead to contact them immediately and send it to get an autopsy. A few cases have been reported but they still were not sent to a place to get an autopsy or anything.

CMhorses Wed, 02/25/2009 - 17:25

I edited and updated the donkey color page.
Also Sara, do you think you could proof read this dilutes page?
http://www.equine-color.info/?q=node/9

Also is there any kind of intrest for a mule color page? maby just put at the bottom of the donkey page?
I figured more people would own donkeys but I guess they don't, so I dont know how many people own or breed or care about mule colors and whats most likely to get you what color mule.

Sara Wed, 02/25/2009 - 18:00

Sure, I'll proofread that one too. I like doing it.

I think you should give mules their own page.

CMhorses Wed, 02/25/2009 - 19:26

Okay, but is there any intrest in a mule page at all? Or should I just make one for a reference for people. Alot of coding goes into pages I make at least and I dont really have time to make ones that are not really wanted.

Daylene Alford Wed, 02/25/2009 - 20:03

I think there would be interest in a mule page. However, don't feel like you have to do it or even if you want to that you have to do it right now. I know your busy and you've already done alot.

The mule page can wait for a while.

CMhorses Wed, 02/25/2009 - 20:06

Some days I have alot of free time. A mule page will be here soon as there is not a whole lot of information about them genetically. Mainly the info is about what to breed to get the best chance at a pinto or one with high leg white etc...

Sara Thu, 02/26/2009 - 23:25

[quote="CMhorses"]I edited and updated the donkey color page.
Also Sara, do you think you could proof read this dilutes page?
http://www.equine-color.info/?q=node/9

[/quote]

[quote]Cream is what is know as a[/quote]

know[b]n[/b] as a[b]n[/b]

[quote]dominate[/quote]

dominant

effects should be affects, as on the other page. There are several of these so do a word search for it.

[quote]regardless of the color of its mates color[/quote]

redundant

Palominos can also rarely have self-colored manes and tails.

Isn't your first silver mini also grey? That could be confusing.

Sara Sat, 03/14/2009 - 00:36

I don't get the following:

[quote]Overo horse pattern has never been seen in mules as it is a double recessive.[/quote]

CMhorses Sat, 03/14/2009 - 00:39

I think that was from where I was just writing down stuff from other sites and it should be more of, frame has never been seen in mules.
...I think it was like 3am when I wrote that part...

Fixed it