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Confusing dilute foal

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This lil fella has me stumped, he seems to have dun (ear tips) maybe silver (about 5 gens back he has a reocurring stallion called Space Race who is silver dapple) lots of champagnes on his dams side, lots of duns on his sires side




His legs are becoming more silvery as he gets older ;u;
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Re: Confusing dilute foal

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Re: Confusing dilute foal

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Definitely not grey as they're born their base colour or a muggy steel colour, 1 is a perlino and 2 is a sooty dun, as this guy grows i think he may be Bay Cr1 Dun
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Re: Confusing dilute foal

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Probably not dun. Sooty Buckskin.
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Re: Confusing dilute foal

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JaycenUwU wrote:
Definitely not grey as they're born their base colour or a muggy steel colour, 1 is a perlino and 2 is a sooty dun, as this guy grows i think he may be Bay Cr1 Dun
He is a bay dun. No cream.

Dun can cause fading on the ankles. There might also be some sooty at work, this may be causing the odd darker-lighter areas of his body.
As far as the silvering style on the black areas of the legs... It's most likely caused by the dun as it expanded along the leg.
Dun causes black hairs to turn grullo and on a black horse; the entire body can end up this way. So this is the most likely culprit.
Actually, it's a nice outcome. :mrgreen:
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Re: Confusing dilute foal

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BlackOak2 wrote:
JaycenUwU wrote: Definitely not grey as they're born their base colour or a muggy steel colour, 1 is a perlino and 2 is a sooty dun, as this guy grows i think he may be Bay Cr1 Dun
He is a bay dun. No cream.

Dun can cause fading on the ankles. There might also be some sooty at work, this may be causing the odd darker-lighter areas of his body.
As far as the silvering style on the black areas of the legs... It's most likely caused by the dun as it expanded along the leg.
Dun causes black hairs to turn grullo and on a black horse; the entire body can end up this way. So this is the most likely culprit.
Actually, it's a nice outcome. :mrgreen:
Thank you! Hes a lot darker now, he was very pale with slightly pink hues and silver legs, so was confused, now hes grown hes very obviously bay dun :lol:
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Re: Confusing dilute foal

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JaycenUwU wrote:
BlackOak2 wrote:
He is a bay dun. No cream.

Dun can cause fading on the ankles. There might also be some sooty at work, this may be causing the odd darker-lighter areas of his body.
As far as the silvering style on the black areas of the legs... It's most likely caused by the dun as it expanded along the leg.
Dun causes black hairs to turn grullo and on a black horse; the entire body can end up this way. So this is the most likely culprit.
Actually, it's a nice outcome. :mrgreen:
Thank you! Hes a lot darker now, he was very pale with slightly pink hues and silver legs, so was confused, now hes grown hes very obviously bay dun :lol:
Yuppers! He does look like a pink foal.
From my recent pangare study, theoretically, if you were to mix him with a pangare mare (or the parents, for that matter) you might actually get a pink horse (mealy bay dun). Baby pangare appears to tell what type of pangare-related genes the horse likely carries.
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Re: Confusing dilute foal

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JaycenUwU wrote:This lil fella has me stumped, he seems to have dun (ear tips) maybe silver (about 5 gens back he has a reocurring stallion called Space Race who is silver dapple) lots of champagnes on his dams side, lots of duns on his sires side




His legs are becoming more silvery as he gets older ;u;
Silver Dun
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Re: Confusing dilute foal

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Looks like a Dunskin to me. Definitely no Silver, it's dominant and would show up as a white mane and tail.

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