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Flaxen was once thought to be produced by a recessive allele, based on preliminary studies, proposed as F f for flaxen. [3] However, more recently it is thought that it may actually be polygenic, influenced by multiple genes. [4] [1] Some chestnut horses that do not exhibit much flaxen may nonetheless produce strongly flaxen offspring.
Sometimes a liver chestnut is also simply called "brown". Light Chestnut: seldom-used term for a pale chestnut coat, mane, and tail; Flaxen Chestnut: Any shade of chestnut, with a significantly lighter mane and tail; A black coat. Black: Black is relatively uncommon, though it is not "rare". There may be two types of black, fading black and non ...
The Tovero (also known as Tobero) [1] coloration is a mix of tobiano and overo colorations in Pinto horses and American Paint Horses. The genetics of pinto coloration are not always fully understood, and some horses have a combination of patterns that does not fit cleanly in either category. A tovero horse with blue eyes and "Medicine hat ...
The mutations causing chestnut, sabino 1, and tobiano appeared shortly after horse domestication, roughly 5000 years ago. [4] Silver and cream dilutions appeared at least 2,600 years ago, and pearl appeared at least 1400 years ago. [5] The gray mutation is also post-domestication but thought to be thousands of years old as well. [6]
Liver chestnut: Silver dapples, especially bay silvers, are frequently misidentified as liver chestnuts or flaxen chestnuts. Flaxen manes and tails in chestnuts tend to have honey or red tones, while the pale manes and tails of silver dapples are soot-toned and darker at the roots. Liver chestnuts also lack the grey-brown dappling on the lower ...
Colloquially, in the American west, almost all copper-red chestnuts are called "sorrel." In other parts of the English-speaking world, some consider a "sorrel" to be a light chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail. A liver chestnut. Liver chestnut or dark chestnut are not a separate genetic color, but a descriptive term. The genetic controls for ...
A tovero horse with blue eyes, a "Medicine hat", and a lips spot. Horses can be uniquely identified by more than just markings or brands. A few other physical characteristics sometimes used to distinguish a horse from another are:
The Black Forest Horse is always chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail; no other color may be registered. [11] The coat varies from pale to very dark, sometimes almost black; this, with a pale or silvery mane, is the coloring called in German Dunkelfuchs, "dark fox". Intentional selection for flaxen chestnut coloring began in 1875. [2]