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Venturing into the Spotty Ones...

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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...

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Weaving 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.....
I think he's be a Mealy Brown snow cap :)
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Re: Venturing into the Spotty Ones...

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Ms. Trouble Maker wrote:
Weaving 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.....
I think he's be a Mealy Brown snow cap :)
Haha thank you! I didn't even think about mealy but that definitely makes sense with his parents. Also definitely no snowflake there?!
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Re: Venturing into the Spotty Ones...

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

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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...

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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
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?
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Re: Venturing into the Spotty Ones...

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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.

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