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Venturing into the Spotty Ones...
So I'm not really great at colours anyway, so just to confuse things further I thought I'd have a go at breeding some spotty Belgians.
I have this boy and I'd love to know what colour he is!
My very best guess is Smoky Silver Brown with Snowcap and I think I see some snowflake in there.....
I have this boy and I'd love to know what colour he is!
My very best guess is Smoky Silver Brown with Snowcap and I think I see some snowflake in there.....

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Re: Venturing into the Spotty Ones...
I think he's be a Mealy Brown snow capWeaving wrote:So I'm not really great at colours anyway, so just to confuse things further I thought I'd have a go at breeding some spotty Belgians.
I have this boy and I'd love to know what colour he is!
My very best guess is Smoky Silver Brown with Snowcap and I think I see some snowflake in there.....


Re: Venturing into the Spotty Ones...
Haha thank you! I didn't even think about mealy but that definitely makes sense with his parents. Also definitely no snowflake there?!Ms. Trouble Maker wrote:I think he's be a Mealy Brown snow capWeaving wrote:So I'm not really great at colours anyway, so just to confuse things further I thought I'd have a go at breeding some spotty Belgians.
I have this boy and I'd love to know what colour he is!
My very best guess is Smoky Silver Brown with Snowcap and I think I see some snowflake in there.....

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Re: Venturing into the Spotty Ones...
He has ver sparce snowflakes, but I wouldn't really count that. lol I see a few spots by his faceWeaving wrote:Haha thank you! I didn't even think about mealy but that definitely makes sense with his parents. Also definitely no snowflake there?!Ms. Trouble Maker wrote:
I think he's be a Mealy Brown snow cap

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Re: Venturing into the Spotty Ones...
I only call them snowcap if it's a white rump, ie homozygous Lp. A blanket is a snowcap with spots in it, so Blanket is the heterozygous Lp version. Yours is a blanket not a snowcap

Re: Venturing into the Spotty Ones...
Wait a minute, I'm confused, so if the rump was entirely white with no spots you could safely say it was LP and with the spots you would say Lp and thus blanket?Kintara wrote:I only call them snowcap if it's a white rump, ie homozygous Lp. A blanket is a snowcap with spots in it, so Blanket is the heterozygous Lp version. Yours is a blanket not a snowcap

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Re: Venturing into the Spotty Ones...
Yes, that's what the LP/LP PATN ones look like, so a complete white pattern like PATN1 with LP/LP and they will be a few spot, but lesser white patterns just gives you the so called snowcap.

