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Newb needs help!
I have read the guides and I'm no closer to understanding how the colors work than I was before. While I'm not asking somebody to explain it, is there anybody willing to take a look at my farm and help me figure out what horses are which colors of my babies?
If not, can somebody tell me what this beautiful fellow is? http://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/491494 Name: MF Cold Pride
I'm not sure if we are allowed to pay people but I'd be willing to give one of my next foals to somebody willing to help me understand all this, haha.
If not, can somebody tell me what this beautiful fellow is? http://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/491494 Name: MF Cold Pride
I'm not sure if we are allowed to pay people but I'd be willing to give one of my next foals to somebody willing to help me understand all this, haha.
Re: Newb needs help!
He is Brown Snowflake Spotted Blanket. He also has the sliver gene which is why his mane and tail are silver. Brown horses have the lighter areas around their stomach and mouth, that is how you can tell them apart from dark bay or chestnut. The spotted blanked originally just starts out as a few white patches on their back but then as they grow older they get brown spots over and around those white patches (At least from my experience). The snowflakes are the small white specks that can be basically anywhere on the body in groups.
I can try to help you figure out some colts, I have been researching loads of horse genetics and markings over the past few days so of course I'm not a pro.
I can try to help you figure out some colts, I have been researching loads of horse genetics and markings over the past few days so of course I'm not a pro.
Re: Newb needs help!
Thank you so much! Yes I'd be delighted if you could help, I just love the different variations I've discovered already and so early in the game even! 
Re: Newb needs help!
Quite a lot of horses, maybe just post those where you are not sure, and we'll help.
Make sure you make pictures of them in their galley by the way, sometimes foal or younger pictures tell you more and you can check back after when it passed away and of cause observe how the colours changed.
Generally you have many horses with leopard pattern. The leopard pattern gene can make white areas and causes varnish. White areas can be small white snowflake spots, snowcap (a snowy mass of snowflakes on the back), blankets, etc. It's possible for a horse to have leopard and no white areas. All Leopard horses show varnish, but this can happen differently, the colour blurs out over time, on some quick, on some slow, sometimes its more white, sometimes gray, sometimes it shows dark areas, black colours can shift to grey/red. When horses have a lot varnish it's difficult to see their base colour.
Browsed a bit through and I've seen a few buckskins on your farm, some with silver (silver mane & tail already at birth), also some normal chestnuts (with leopard) and similar.
This girl is rather interesting:
she's Silver Buckskin Dun Roan Snowcap. Buckskin = bay + cream, Silver = silver mane and tail, Dun = primitive markings, zebra on legs, Roan = white hair on most of the body except face and legs, Snowcap = homozygous Leopard (all foals will inherit Leopard), which also causes her legs to show up bit lighter.
Make sure you make pictures of them in their galley by the way, sometimes foal or younger pictures tell you more and you can check back after when it passed away and of cause observe how the colours changed.
Generally you have many horses with leopard pattern. The leopard pattern gene can make white areas and causes varnish. White areas can be small white snowflake spots, snowcap (a snowy mass of snowflakes on the back), blankets, etc. It's possible for a horse to have leopard and no white areas. All Leopard horses show varnish, but this can happen differently, the colour blurs out over time, on some quick, on some slow, sometimes its more white, sometimes gray, sometimes it shows dark areas, black colours can shift to grey/red. When horses have a lot varnish it's difficult to see their base colour.
Browsed a bit through and I've seen a few buckskins on your farm, some with silver (silver mane & tail already at birth), also some normal chestnuts (with leopard) and similar.
This girl is rather interesting:
she's Silver Buckskin Dun Roan Snowcap. Buckskin = bay + cream, Silver = silver mane and tail, Dun = primitive markings, zebra on legs, Roan = white hair on most of the body except face and legs, Snowcap = homozygous Leopard (all foals will inherit Leopard), which also causes her legs to show up bit lighter.