Color question

remie · Postby **remie** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:38 am

Hi everyone,

I have a strange color question. Sire texas Glitter Bay with no white and the dam Bay with black points and one star. Ok What my mare gave me was a Chestnut 3 tall stockings one back stocking on the back of her leg and a blaze. So let me tell you when i helped pull her out i was a little baffled;) Now here is the really strange thing. SHe has white hairs all over her back and a white circle patch thing. lol on her upper back hock :roll:

I have never seen this before. I mean i have seen roaning but can she be roaning? All i know is there is way to much white hairs in there when i register her I will pay someone to do her paper work :lol:

OH and Im not new here i was under another name but for some reason i can not remeber my password or the email i set it up with;)

Thanks everyone

camohn · Postby **camohn** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:04 am

probably the sabino or rabicano genes at work. SOmetimes they can pop up and be expressed when not expected/

Nessa · Postby **Nessa** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:23 am

Both the sire Texas Glitter(TG gets his from his dam) and the dam have one gene for red(chestnut) and that's how you got a chestnut from two bay horses. Like Camohn says the white roaning could be sabino or rabicano, for whatever reason chestnut lets white show more readily than black, bay, or brown. Do you have any pictures? I would love to see these markings they sound really interesting.

remie · Postby **remie** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:56 am

Thank you so much for replying:) I have a couple of pics that I took last week of the filly just standing there in the pasture. I will take some more tonight so you can see all the white in her coat. Now that I think about it. The dam dose have some roaning on her flanks and under her belly but nothing as much as this Filly..

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Thease pics Do not do her justice really. But on the front left she has the white on the back of her pastern all the way up to her knee.

Nerd · Postby **Nerd** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:09 am

This kind of roaning on an adult (non-gray) is indeed called rabicano, but I would wait to let your filly shed out to see the full extent of the white hairs--baby coats can have all sorts of weird stuff going on

Tairaterces · Postby **Tairaterces** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:55 pm

Remie . . . . . .She's a beauty . . . . . . . . . . . .

Can't wait to see her when she's a bit older . . . . . .

Thanks for posting her pix.

Tairaterces

remie · Postby **remie** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:34 am

Thanks so Much Tairaterces

She really is a nice Filly. I was going to take more pics of her color last night but storms came through here in ocala so no go with that..lol

Nerd,

She has shed out all but a little bit. In those pics she is sweating her Arss off when we had the heat waves come through. So all the white in the coat that I see now is what it will be. No more baby hair to come out.