I have one line of horses that produces the oddest colors.
This is the gr-Granddamm Sorry about the "lovely" photo, came off the registration papers. I bought her from my Uncle's dispersal and she been living a very fat retirement here since.
- palomino (no dorsal, no darker points yet must carry dun, also must carry silver)
Grand Dam
- palomino (no dorsal, no darker points, sire is a black pinto, has produced a grullo from a bay so must carry dun as well as silver.)
Dam
- Silver buckskin (no dorsal, "dirty" points ie legs, ears, mane is a "dirty" flaxen, sire is a bay, full sibling to grullo)
her full brother
Son/Gelding
- ?silver? Dun (has a dorsal, odd mottling on the face even though no appaloosa in background, no darker points.)
Here you can see his dorsal, never took a photo from above or behind the rest of the year but it does clip out considerably lighter than in winter coat.
Here is his face. I would say appaloosa but I own the majority of his dam line and his sire from a well known sorrel sire and pinto dam line. Sire also carries silver but not dun.
The mottling has me thrown for such a loop but I did read somewhere that Champagne can cause some mottling or could it be from a double up of silver gene? Is it plausible to think the line may also carry Champagne? Would you say the gelding is for sure a dun or would you question counter shading? In short with out throwing in the kitchen sink what would test him for?
On a personal note I've to to say it was mortifying to go through old photos, how I took those photos, how I use to condition and show...yikes. I might as well be posting pictures of me in my bleached out towering mass of hair I had in high school.
This is the gr-Granddamm Sorry about the "lovely" photo, came off the registration papers. I bought her from my Uncle's dispersal and she been living a very fat retirement here since.
- palomino (no dorsal, no darker points yet must carry dun, also must carry silver)
![tish.gif](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/3c0/3c05c091891dadb985c5824f16945009.gif)
Grand Dam
- palomino (no dorsal, no darker points, sire is a black pinto, has produced a grullo from a bay so must carry dun as well as silver.)
![platinum.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/e9d/e9d5a51078701fbaa7d50e8f11140fe2.jpg)
Dam
- Silver buckskin (no dorsal, "dirty" points ie legs, ears, mane is a "dirty" flaxen, sire is a bay, full sibling to grullo)
![vanillacrush-2.gif](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/c65/c65a2d57750c96af4fe9bfb7ba6620f9.gif)
her full brother
![35221_1484113579074_1120892823_31406292_2143794_n.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/dfa/dfa6dc90197c560ca2658f940a3322c9.jpg)
Son/Gelding
- ?silver? Dun (has a dorsal, odd mottling on the face even though no appaloosa in background, no darker points.)
Here you can see his dorsal, never took a photo from above or behind the rest of the year but it does clip out considerably lighter than in winter coat.
![frost2.gif](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/aa5/aa5b4ab6d0365bc3839b20932205af23.gif)
Here is his face. I would say appaloosa but I own the majority of his dam line and his sire from a well known sorrel sire and pinto dam line. Sire also carries silver but not dun.
![frost1c.gif](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/652/652b7b8ea1c19777abf4555bbd1e7bfc.gif)
The mottling has me thrown for such a loop but I did read somewhere that Champagne can cause some mottling or could it be from a double up of silver gene? Is it plausible to think the line may also carry Champagne? Would you say the gelding is for sure a dun or would you question counter shading? In short with out throwing in the kitchen sink what would test him for?
On a personal note I've to to say it was mortifying to go through old photos, how I took those photos, how I use to condition and show...yikes. I might as well be posting pictures of me in my bleached out towering mass of hair I had in high school.
![default_laugh.png](https://www.miniaturehorsetalk.com/data/emoticons/default_laugh.png)