is it possible to get a black and brown horse. i dont mean bay with black points i mean like a piebald just where the hair is grey it is brown and the black is`black. there is no white on the horse
black and brown???????
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There is a photograph of a black and brown horse like that going around. I have a feeling it's been proved a fake though.
Genetically it's nigh on impossible. Horses have one basic colour gene; the extension gene. They have two copies of this gene; one from mum, one from dad. It's either 'switched on' for black (resulting in a black horse - genetic notation is E) or it's not (resulting in red, or chestnut - noted as e). One copy of teh gene switche don for black is enough to make a horse black, so blacks can be either Ee (one copy for black and one for red) or EE (two copies both switched on for black). The only real difference is that an EE black will never have chestnut foals, regardless of the other parent's colour.
There are then 'alleles' - which modify the base colour. One of these is bay - that restricts black pigment to the points. It only restricts it to the points though - in whichever form it takes (and it's believed that there may be up to four different variations of the bay gene) so couldn't cause black and brown on the body.
Then there's the alleles for patches - tobiano and overo. Both of thee cause areas of white pigment on the body - never another colour.
So... genetically, there's no grounds to believe a horse could ever be black and brown in that way.
Genetically it's nigh on impossible. Horses have one basic colour gene; the extension gene. They have two copies of this gene; one from mum, one from dad. It's either 'switched on' for black (resulting in a black horse - genetic notation is E) or it's not (resulting in red, or chestnut - noted as e). One copy of teh gene switche don for black is enough to make a horse black, so blacks can be either Ee (one copy for black and one for red) or EE (two copies both switched on for black). The only real difference is that an EE black will never have chestnut foals, regardless of the other parent's colour.
There are then 'alleles' - which modify the base colour. One of these is bay - that restricts black pigment to the points. It only restricts it to the points though - in whichever form it takes (and it's believed that there may be up to four different variations of the bay gene) so couldn't cause black and brown on the body.
Then there's the alleles for patches - tobiano and overo. Both of thee cause areas of white pigment on the body - never another colour.
So... genetically, there's no grounds to believe a horse could ever be black and brown in that way.
I saw a picture of an almost tiger striped horse the other day, it had a base coat of brown with black stripes hanging from a dorsal stripe. The vertical stripes only went half way down the body. Is this possible, it certainly looked very different.
You could have black and brown hairs in the coat tho couldnt you which is brindle but not in patches just all mixed in.
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Pink's lady
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You mean like this?
or this
And this is stunning
They're zorses (zebra x horse) and absolutly stunning
Yup. I saw a pciture of someone doing dressage on, can't find it now though.stevielee said:Might be a daft question
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Pink's lady
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I'm not sure about that colour but look at this page I never realised there was sooo many colours!!!!
http://sheepasylum.cherrytaco.com/equinecolor/main.html
Meegan
http://sheepasylum.cherrytaco.com/equinecolor/main.html
Meegan
There are so many gorgeous looking horses on there! Im not sure of my fave probably the palomino overo!
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