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Q on snowflake appys

supaspot60 June 03, 2010 February 22, 2011

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does the snowflake pattern spread/increase in the same way that leopards do ? will my mini mare have snowflakes all over her body eventually?

NZ Appaloosas Fri, 06/04/2010 - 03:40

Snowflakes are odd...they come, they go, they spread, they shrink. Our one mare looks buckskin from the distance when she's preggers as her snowflakes go crazy. When she's not, she looks plain bay until you get close up. Some of them can look greyish, too, until they fully "bloom". I need to dig up the photos I have of various stages of snowflaking.

Diane

lipigirl Fri, 06/04/2010 - 06:22

[quote="NZ Appaloosas"]I'd say she's also got appy roaning in spades!

Diane[/quote]

yes wow what a difference !

AppyLady Fri, 06/04/2010 - 07:31

Arock, her color is unusual, even for appy!

Snowflake IS appy roaning. Just dont want to give anyone the impression that it's caused by separate gene. Snowflake, varnish...it's all LP.

Arock Fri, 06/04/2010 - 17:24

[quote="AppyLady"]Arock, her color is unusual, even for appy!

Snowflake IS appy roaning. Just dont want to give anyone the impression that it's caused by separate gene. Snowflake, varnish...it's all LP.[/quote]
Exactly. AppyLady, I think it was you who explained that to me a long time ago.
LP is extremely confusing for those that don't live & breathe it.

Arock Sat, 06/05/2010 - 14:03

I don't have a photo of this mare when she was younger. She was a minimal snowflake dun. She had very few flakes.
Now she looks more roany. She is also a great example of a bay dun with LP affected black points.
She was born with black legs & primitive markings like any other bay dun. Her legs have lightened to brown.
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supaspot60 Sat, 06/05/2010 - 18:30

[quote="AppyLady"]Arock, her color is unusual, even for appy!

Snowflake IS appy roaning. Just dont want to give anyone the impression that it's caused by separate gene. Snowflake, varnish...it's all LP.[/quote]
I had suspected that myself

Arock your mare is amazing , she looks like someone has taken a paint brush and flicked white paint all over her!

Arock Sat, 06/05/2010 - 18:52

[quote="supaspot60"][quote="AppyLady"]Arock, her color is unusual, even for appy!

Snowflake IS appy roaning. Just dont want to give anyone the impression that it's caused by separate gene. Snowflake, varnish...it's all LP.[/quote]
I had suspected that myself

Arock your mare is amazing , she looks like someone has taken a paint brush and flicked white paint all over her![/quote]
That's what I thought when I saw her last Spring! Thank you!
I co own her with a friend in SD, her breeder. I told him years ago that I thought she would change a little. I had no idea how much she would change!

NZ Appaloosas Sun, 06/06/2010 - 22:56

[quote="AppyLady"]Arock, her color is unusual, even for appy!

Snowflake IS appy roaning. Just dont want to give anyone the impression that it's caused by separate gene. Snowflake, varnish...it's all LP.[/quote]

Yes, but snowflaking "makes spots" and can start from the front...appy roaning grows forward from where the pattern started at the back. At least, that's how my brain differentiates them. :rofl

Now, to load those photos I was going to load the other day...

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Diane

NZ Appaloosas Sun, 06/06/2010 - 22:58

As you can see, there can be a textural difference where the spots are starting to come out, and they have a greyish undertone until they are fully developed.

Diane