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SilverStars Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:46 am Posts: 11

What Colour is this exactly?

Post by SilverStars »

Hello! I feel like i am over posting a bit, but i am colorblind and i do have trouble telling what color is what. Especially with the whites/slightly off whites. I really appreciate anyone who can help me out :)

Can anyone tell me what color he is...? Its an off white and i really can't tell which one it is.

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Devolare Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:06 pm Posts: 301

Re: What Colour is this exactly?

Post by Devolare »

He's not really white, he's just young. He'll get darker as he ages.
I'll show you what I mean. This is Torque. He's a brown cream (double cream on brown).

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Current 5 year old Torque


I think you get the picture.

For your boy, he got a cream from his father, and seeing as his mother didn't give him another cream since she can't, he must have also got a pearl from his father. My guess is that he's a Smoky Brown Pearl, but that's only after a quick glance.
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OblivionStables Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Tue Apr 26, 2016 2:28 am Posts: 9

Re: What Colour is this exactly?

Post by OblivionStables »

Sire could have only contributed either Cream or Perl (their on the same gene). The Dam's Sire is a Perlino which means she's carrying a
"hidden" cream(blacks don't show with only one copy). Cream from Dad + Cream from mom equal double dilute Baby.
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nyraeia Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Tue Aug 04, 2015 2:47 pm Posts: 621

Re: What Colour is this exactly?

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Sunken Star is still very young. As a guideline, you should wait until your foal is about one year old to ask here :)
For now, it indeed looks like he could be Smoky Brown Pearl.
Devolare is a bit wrong about why, though. He cannot have inherited both Cream and Pearl from the sire as they are both on the same locus and only one can be inherited at a time.
Gamma looks black but she's actually Smoky Black (her dam is Perlino, so guaranteed to pass one Cream to every foal).
So Sunken Star is either double Cream (Smoky or Brown Cream, depending on base colour) or Cream + Pearl (Smoky Black/Brown Pearl, depending on base colour).

Let's just wait until he's matured :)
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Devolare Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:06 pm Posts: 301

Re: What Colour is this exactly?

Post by Devolare »

Eh it was a quick glance. x'D I didn't see that his mother had a perlino parent. He looked slightly different than my double creams, so I assumed pearl came from his father as well. I don't work with pearls a lot really so I just assumed they were different. Still stand by my guess tho.

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