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These are model horses! Any real horses used in pedigree assignment are for hobbyist and educational purposes only.
All of our horses will be marked if they are available for breeding. Do not use any of my horses' names or pictures without permission. For the sake of realism, please try to make the genetics of at least one of the parents match your foal's genetics. Your foal does not have to be an actual foal. Even if your horses are non-aging, it still might be helpful to assign a year of birth. Send an email to [email protected] with the following information if you are interested in breeding to some of my horses. I can provide a pedigree and a certificate of birth via email.
*If you are unsure what color your horse is, click here for a quick, easy, and visual color reference.*
Specific Terminology Regarding Coat Patterns/Colors
Pinto and Paint. One common error when talking about coat pattern is using the words 'pinto' and 'paint' interchangeably. The term 'pinto' refers to a color/pattern, the same way that bay, gray, chestnut, etc. refer to colors. The term 'paint' is actually meant for a specific registry. The Quarter Horse registry allows very little white to be present on the horse aside from minimal facial and leg markings. A Paint Horse registry was created for pinto colored horses with Quarter Horse bloodlines. Basically, pinto is a color and Paint is a breed of horse. At one point, however, Arabians with a pinto pattern were considered to be the "Pinto Horse" breed. Now they are more commonly called 'Pintabians'. Appaloosa Breed and Color. Appaloosa is a color pattern found among a wide variety of horse breeds. Its very distinctive spots and white patches make it easily recognizable. There is also an Appaloosa breed. The difference between the two is any breed (breed standard permitting) can have an appaloosa pattern, but only a certain type of horse with a certain type of breeding can be considered a horse of the Appaloosa breed. Palomino Breed and Color. There is no specific breed of horse called the Palomino. Breeders are, however, trying to establish a Palomino breed. The color palomino is like any other color and can be sported by any horse. There are no strict parameters for a Palomino breed yet, although there are Palomino Horse Shows that only allow horses with palomino coloring and/or one or two palomino parents. A Palomino Horse Breeders Association has been created, and palomino colored foals can be registered. Palomino was a color highly valued by some Quarter Horse breeders, and consequently "Palominos" tend to be palomino colored Quarter Horses. Color GeneticsIf your goal is realism when it comes to model horse breeding, one of the key points is to make sure that the offspring is a color that can plausibly be produced by the two parents. As a rule of thumb, at least one parent should be the same color or in the same color family as the offspring. I highly recommend using this color calculator site. Dominant colors (genetically speaking), include the following:
Recessive colors, when they are paired with another recessive color, the result will always produce that recessive color. Horses with dominant colors may carry the gene(s) for a recessive color(s). Recessive colors (genetically speaking) include the following:
In dilute colored horses, less pigment is produced and very little enters the hair shaft. These are some of the most common dilute colors:
main source used: The Color Of Horses by Dr. Ben K. Green Abbreviations for Genes
Horse color genetics can be very confusing at times, so here is a simplified outline of which genes/alleles help form specific colors. An upper case letter means the allele is dominant; a lower case letter means the allele is recessive. The dominant gene/allele will be visible, but the recessive one will not be visible if there is a dominant one present. If there is an "n" in front of a sequence, that just means that it is heterozygous, for example nT is heterozygous tobiano.
Dilutions are genes that basically dilute other colors. Colors can also have a silver dilution, for which the pairs are nZ (heterozygous) or ZZ (homozygous). Used to represent dun and roan are "Dd" or "DD", and "Rr" or "RR", respectively. Grullo is like black dun, so it carries the dun gene. All I use for tobiano, sabino, splash, etc. are abbreviations such as TT/nT, SS/nS, SplSpl/n Spl, or any combination.
Genes/alleles for common coat colors:
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