Do Shires Carry Creme??
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Re: Do Shires Carry Creme??
thanks...i'm on my laptop, which is mainly an internet/drawing machine for me and saving pictures and uploading makes it want to cry...lol
yeah..wasn't sure about silver since they didn't mention testing for it in the ad, just creme, but it is light-ish..
and i didn't think about grey or black hiding creme honestly...but also...you think one might have popped up before now...lol
Re: Do Shires Carry Creme??
I have never heard of one. I did some color research on them for a project not too long ago, and I know the registries don't list cream variants either. The mare looks suspicously grey to me. I would look for confirmation of pedigree first and see the actual test results on the color, then be looking through her pedigree for a fence jumper. Then, if she is from a grey line, there is the (rare) possibility it actually did slip in somewhere some time back and has carried forward, masked by grey all this time.
Re: Do Shires Carry Creme??
I've seen a lot of solid colored gypsies, cobs, etc that are mistaken as shires and are cream. Is it possible someone bred one of these cobs thinking it was a shire and no one did DNA testing and it just carried through?
ETA: Like this guy for instance?
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Re: Do Shires Carry Creme??
The black base seems more common in shires than the red but there is enough agouti around that this should have been noticed before if creme was present i can't see the registry accepting creme, they are funny enough about excess white in shires. I'm not sure how strict they are on genetic testing for parentage though, but as an endangered breed they are pretty hot on keeping their gene pool as close to 'type' as possible.
and update to this...found
and update to this...found the mare again while looking for her for a friend to post elsewhere
http://tintagelandalusians.com/mares_ta…
the dam is a smokey black (found her here: http://apdhorses.com/mares.htm Jane's Prize One)
http://apdhorses.com/jolie.htm has a foal pic of Jolie
the Tintagel site gives an explanation of why she is buckskin (and the dam is smokey black)
[quote]Well as it turns out many, many decades ago the AHSA allowed a breed up program due to the scarcity of Shires in the country. This allowed mares of unknown parentage that fit the breed description to apply for registration. Mares had to be bred back to registered Shire stallions and only fillies could be kept as breeders. [/quote]
Her dam also looks smoky
Her dam also looks smoky black
[img]http://apdhorses.com/horse_pics/janie.J…]
The Shire registries in both
The Shire registries in both countries have Grading Registers. That is how they ended up with a buckskin, because the original halfbred mare, +A Ranch Molly, was a palomino. (The subsequent generations up until this mare were all black.) Molly also had a full sister, also palomino, that was registered. Her other siblings were sorrels like her sire.
The way the ASHA and SHS Grading Registers work, after enough crosses to registered stallions, you end up with a fully registered Shire. She is legitimate, and would be (assuming her color was not invoked as a reason to remove her) in the mother stud book as well. That is always a possibility with breeds that have Grading Registers and no explicit restrictions on coloring.
For what it is worth, there were a number of dilute (cream or dun... in many cases there is no way to know which) mares registered in the early Shire stud books. In fact, with few exceptions most of the early British stud books have a few cream/dun entries. Even Cleveland Bays once had what were probably dun horses, if you go back far enough.
I've had a few people ask me why on earth I have so much registry information in the upcoming horse breed color books. With some of them, the section on the stud book history (which leads each breed chapter) is pages and pages long. This sort of situation is exactly why registry structure is so important to breed color. Grading registers are the back door that weird stuff can get in, and often all that stops that from happening is tradition and peer pressure. We could have tobiano Shires once again through this same route, after all. I doubt that would happen, because with negative sentiments (and rivalry) about Gypsy Horses, you'd probably goad the registries into enacting rules about the Graded horses. But it could happen as things are now.
Re: Do Shires Carry Creme??
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Heres the picture for the lazy type
Grey and black could hide cream fairly easily...would love to see photos of the parents. I see the mane frosting but her tail is awfully light.