Cremello questions

Based on what I've seen lately, yup. All of the DDs I saw in Canada (and I saw about 10) had dark speckles on their skin. A couple of them even had brown in their eyes.

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Yes I agree, they can be quite close to look at but a LOT of DDs have speckled skin and other than blue eyes.

Not where I come from, they don't!!
I have never seen or heard of a CrCr that did not have blue eyes, not ever, sorry.
And, although I have occasionally seen a few spots on the eyelids, nothing like as dark as the pictures ACC posted, I would have said that was indicative of something else being in there as well, possibly (obviously) Appy!
I would imagine, even though I have never seen it, that a CrCr could have a diluted form of the mottling that Palomino have on their skin, but all the ones I have had, and bred, have typically had pure pink skin and pure pink noses and eyelids.

What about the eye color of the one I posted Fizz? What do you think of that?

I think it's blue...why, what colour is it??

:rofl Yes, in general it is blue. From a distance it looks like a golden blue (if such a thing is possible). up close it is truly marbled hazel and blue. Can you see the brown/hazel in that photo or do I need to up the contrast?

Eye looks green to me!!! I wish I could get a picture from my friend of he DD that looked exactly like a Champagne with mottling on pink skin and was not Champers !...and I've seen it since too........not too sure about the green eyes though ! :o

Okay, here is Luna's eye... I will look to see if I can find a better one (I know I took one or two)
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Okay this is his other eye (that is dirt splotches - the wind had been blowing dirt - I took the pix as hubby got the supplies to clean his eye out)
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That is just what I wanted to hear. I met this horse briefly and got all the pedigree info from the owner. From that, I wrote up a genetic profile, foaling outcomes and testing recommendations. Afterwards, I got a much better look at the horse and went "oh snap, what is going on here?!" Glad to hear that I don't have to rewrite a five page document.

I can see a discoloured ring round the outside of the eye but I honestly see nothing unusual about that. The eye colour is still blue, as are the eyes of all CrCr animals as far as I know.....

Look I know I am colourblind - shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh don't tell anyone !! Yes truely I am red/green colour blind all the men on both sides of my parents family are colour blind except my brother which is VERY weird but then he is a little different. It is very rare for us girlies to be colourblind as it's a male dominant gene which my Mum carried resisively..............anyways - that eye is not blue it's green !!!!....sorry it's taken me 5 yrs to tell you guys. :oops:

And no jokes about ...well I always thought you couldn't tell this colour horse from that one...as far as I know there are no green horses out there !!! ;)

:rofl :love My dad was color blind, but thank heavens none of us inherited that problem (although my son swears I can't tell green lights from red when driving :booty )....

That eye is NOT just a normal blue. Unfortunately I am away from home for over a week and do not have the original of that photo handy so I could crop in and give you a LARGE version to see, but having seen it in person I can assure you it is not a normal blue, it is MARBLED (not multiple shades of blue, it is marbled blue and brown).

OK, I'll take your word for it that it is as you say it is, but that just makes it an anomaly, not a rule!! :booty

The same horse has the obvious spots around the eyes and nose, and I have never seen those on a CrCr either....are you sure there is not something else going on??
That would be the easiest reason, and I do like easy answers.....

You tell me... he's a Thoroughbred. :D

(FWIW, I saw about 10 DD Thoroughbreds recently and every single one of them had some dark mottling.)

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It's a large photo so I'm linking instead of posting.

those eyes do not look standard to me. That's really interesting!

Both the pictures of the same eye look goldish and slightly green. Not the normal cremello eye I'd expect. Lovely looking eye imo!

Acc are you sure the horse is not a champaign and creme pseudocremello? that looks almost like a champaign eye to me and the speckles on the skin would fit.

[quote="lillith"]Acc are you sure the horse is not a champaign and creme pseudocremello? that looks almost like a champaign eye to me and the speckles on the skin would fit.[/quote]
Horse is a TB and is most definitely Cremello and not Champagne.

Instreding, I thought I'd solved it then. Oh well. Odd cremello it is then. :rofl