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Element Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Tue May 05, 2020 11:16 pm Posts: 638

Color help?

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Veterinarian Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Sun Jan 27, 2019 2:18 pm Posts: 2793

Re: Color help?

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They are all near leopard chestnuts ^^

The 2nd and 3rd also have the varnish roan and feathering (we won't know for the 1st one until later)
The second one also has snowflakes.

The 1st and 2nd one carry 2 copies of the LP gene.

So final answer:
1st one) for now the foal is a near leopard chestnut
2nd and 3rd one) near leopard chestnut with feather in and varnish roan
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Malakai10 Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Wed Oct 14, 2015 4:05 pm Posts: 2398

Re: Color help?

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Veterinarian wrote:
They are all near leopard chestnuts ^^

The 2nd and 3rd also have the varnish roan and feathering (we won't know for the 1st one until later)
The second one also has snowflakes.

The 1st and 2nd one carry 2 copies of the LP gene.

So final answer:
1st one) for now the foal is a near leopard chestnut
2nd and 3rd one) near leopard chestnut with feather in and varnish roan
The first one also has two socks on the front feet. So, she can be listed as tobiano. Horses with Lp/Lp are called snowcaps if they have PATN2 (blanket pattern) and few spots if they have PATN1 (leopard pattern).

The first one is also varnish roan, even if it hasn't expressed yet - spotted patterns can't express without varnish roan (Lp/-) From what I remember of way back when I had a few spotted horses, most, if not all varnish roans, get at least a small amount of snowflakes.

So:

Swirly Candy is a chestnut near leopard tobiano (two front socks)
Everyday for Wrangler is a chestnut near leopard
Invincible Lollipop is a tiger eye chestnut near few spot

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