miniwhinny
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First I want to say - I don't know what color modifier is going on with Ozy. Ozy is NOT ...can't repeat this enough NOT NOT NOT a dun...duns NEED a dun parent and Ozy doesn't have one. It's getting old being told he's a primitively striped dun when I know he's not. He does have smutty/sooty going on.
Dr. Sponenberg said that (quote) Ozy was marked like the most wildly marked dun without being a dun and told me to contact the brindle registry to see what they had to say. At the time (3 years ago) there were two registries...Anita Cascabel(sp) with one told me he was a brindle like the one is Australia and the other told me he wasn't. Researching brindle and it's many characteristics does hint that it's related to the smutty which Ozy has. Or maybe he's a primitively marked sooty bay...who knows
He looks like the brindle mini in Australia. He has stripes of unknown origin all over his shoulders, patches like dun patches all up his neck and stripes going down his rib cage.
What does interest me is how the smutty gene modifys other colors. Like seen in Ozy
This is a picture of a colt that my friend bred.
These pics don't show the true extent of his dun factor. He has HUGE fishbone markings coming off his dorsal! His dam was a dun with just decent dun markings. His sire was a dun with decent markings but BOTH parents appeared to carry smutty and this colt was the result....stripes, brindle markings on his upper legs and shoulders, neck patches, cobwebs, fishbone, zebra stripes on his legs...everything.
I had a dun filly with THREE dorsal stripes...one down the middle and one on each side...her dam was a smutty red dun. Her dorsal stripe was 4 inches WIDE!
I'm fascinated by the markings resulting from smutty including brindle and primitive stripes.
So - I've posted pics of Ozy in other threads...does anyone else have a wildly marked horse which seems to be influenced by the smutty gene?
Dr. Sponenberg said that (quote) Ozy was marked like the most wildly marked dun without being a dun and told me to contact the brindle registry to see what they had to say. At the time (3 years ago) there were two registries...Anita Cascabel(sp) with one told me he was a brindle like the one is Australia and the other told me he wasn't. Researching brindle and it's many characteristics does hint that it's related to the smutty which Ozy has. Or maybe he's a primitively marked sooty bay...who knows
He looks like the brindle mini in Australia. He has stripes of unknown origin all over his shoulders, patches like dun patches all up his neck and stripes going down his rib cage.
What does interest me is how the smutty gene modifys other colors. Like seen in Ozy
This is a picture of a colt that my friend bred.
These pics don't show the true extent of his dun factor. He has HUGE fishbone markings coming off his dorsal! His dam was a dun with just decent dun markings. His sire was a dun with decent markings but BOTH parents appeared to carry smutty and this colt was the result....stripes, brindle markings on his upper legs and shoulders, neck patches, cobwebs, fishbone, zebra stripes on his legs...everything.
I had a dun filly with THREE dorsal stripes...one down the middle and one on each side...her dam was a smutty red dun. Her dorsal stripe was 4 inches WIDE!
I'm fascinated by the markings resulting from smutty including brindle and primitive stripes.
So - I've posted pics of Ozy in other threads...does anyone else have a wildly marked horse which seems to be influenced by the smutty gene?
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