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Genetic discussion
of "weird:" ...Well? ...rare! Really odd! Bizarre! Some things just
defy explanation... 
Brindle
| The brindle horse. Surely
the rarest abberation in the equine world, no doubt left over from
some primeval ancient camoflauge genetics, like the striping of primitive
duns of today. The horse pictured here is (alas!) also grey, so the
gradual whitening will eventually overtake his unique brindle pattern. FRS Reckless Dan, AQHA #3641242, bred by Florian Selting, SD, now owned by Penny Christiansen, standing at Lee Summit, MO. Reckless Dan was foaled May 01, 1997. He stands 15.3 hh, and is well muscled with a baby doll head, good bone structure and a good hoof foundation. Dan has been started in the arena w/ team penning, roping & English jumping. |
Copyrighted photo generously
provided by professional equine photojournalist: © Gabriele
Kärcher, Sorrel.
If you want to set up a photo shoot w/ this international photographer,
she lives in Montana half the year - contact
me. |
| "According
to research, it seems there are two ways in which the brindle phenotype
can appear in horses. In some horses, the pattern seems to be inherited,
indicating that one or more genes are responsible. In other horses,
the pattern is not inherited, possibly due to mosaic or chimeric origin,
similar to that seen in tortoiseshell cats." ~ Equisearch.com Yes, brindle is genetically inherited, at least in some brindles... There are several classifications of brindle, which are identified and recognized in the Brindle Horse Registry. Read about brindle mares producing brindle babies here: Brindle Horses.com |
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Strange
Markings
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"I am very
interested in genetics and coloures, and am submitting a filly i
bred last year 'Carnaval Gold' I have attached some pictures - her
sire Carnaval Drum, international show-jumping stallion (chestnut,
shown below), her dam Albina (cremello), and 3 pictures of the filly.
When she was born she was a normal palomino; later she developed
a strange liver band down one side." |
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An oddly marked Bashkir
horse. Utställning i Skåne / Czerewko, reserv Best in Show. Efter Yuri, undan Nikita. Uppfödd av Fjärens ridcenter och ägd av Katarina Linstad 2003-09-06. http://www.basjkir.se |
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"Here is a photo of a mare 'Lucy' that we recently sold. She is a horse of a different color. Both her parents where solid sorrel. We bought her from a good friend who bought her dam with her at the side and he said she was colored that way as a foal." Andrea McGregor McGregor Ranch N4206 810th St Ellsworth, WI 54011 click on Lucy's picture for a closeup |
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| "Mosaic:
Any equine having patches of tissue that differ genetically from the
rest of the body due to a mutation or chromosomal anomaly that arose
early in embryological development rather than the merging of two
identical twins. This can result in what appears to be brindling or
can be such irregular patterns as could be represented here: http://www.homozygous-horses.com/lucy.jpg"
~ BrindleHorseRegistry.com |
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Funny Foal
Colors
| I might be cheating a little
bit including funny foal colors on this website; but sometimes foals can
display the oddest colors before they shed! Foals shed off darker when they get their adult color. For example, often their future black legs start out white. A grulla foal starts out looking dun (with a black face). I have had foals that started out looking bay shed off to black. I have read where no black horse is born black (and it is true most are born brownish-grey) but I have definitely had a few that proved that wrong; they were born pitch black from day one (I think those may be non-fading, or shiny-black, but the jury is still out on that one). The champagne is an exception to the light to dark rule - it starts out a deeper darker hue, then will shed off more ivory and lighter when adult. This wooly curly filly didn't stay bay w/ white legs; she went on to shed into a nice respectable bay... she is owned by Barbara Carroll, Stag Creek Curlies, TX |
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A Satin
gene?
| We (owners of this website) believe there is a satin gene in horses. In rabbits, rats & mice there is a "satin gene" - it is a hair shaft that causes more reflection resulting in a very shiney metalic sheen to the hair coat. It is the actual structure of the hair, not a genetic color or dilute. Many champagne horses have this metallic sheen - but not all champagnes. Akhal Tekes often have a metallic sheen coat, and do not have the champagne dilute gene. Occasionally you run across horses of other breeds with this charismatic metalic shimmer... | |
| Hi Rollin Janie 2006 AQHA 4868767 buckskin filly bred & sold in the Billings MT catalog horse sale by Brian Walker, Huntley Montana bloodlines: High Rolling Roany Satin Sunset Blu Glo (judging by the names of some of her relatives, it does sound like a genetic thing, doesn't it?) |
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| Here is a familiar photo picturing
the Akhal Teke breed of horse. This horse displays the characteristic metallic
glow... Many champagne horses also have this metallic sheen - but not
all champagnes do. And, Akhal Tekes do not have the champagne dilute
gene. |
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 Jan Van Schoyck, photo by Janice Voss-Crosby, |
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Exotic, Unusual, and
even Wild Color Combinations
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A Zorse head study. Training a Zorse is said to be similar to training a mule - the same quote often given about training a Curly Horse. Mules & Curlies are exceptionally intelligent, and use a lot of reasoning - they tend to think more than shy & react. They also need a thoughtful & knowledgable approach when it comes to successful training. Bedonna's Performance Horses, OK |
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Here is a genetic combination
you don't run across every day... This is *Siesta, a true blue roan medicine
hat overo curly filly born in 2003. Her dam is a gaited curly and her sire
is a blue roan overo Paint. Siesta is large, pretty and very sweet. She moves
like a dream and should give us some super sport-type curly foals! Siesta
will be bred to the Friesian stallion "Romeo de Rosa" for a 2008 Curly-Frie!
Siesta is not for sale. Owned by Golden Gait Farm, TN. |
"A mule has given birth to a male
foal in a hamlet deep in rural Morocco. The 14-year-old mother mule gave
birth on 28 August, 2002 in a small hamlet of three poor farms in the region
of Oulmes, 80 kilometres south of the ancient city of Fez. The farm is nestled
at the foot of the Atlas mountains, where the mother mule has become a cult.
She and her foal have been visited by streams of people, many of whom traveled
for hours to pay tribute to the miracle birth and bring gifts to the owner
and the animal. The mule has become a local attraction The mule's aged owner,
a farming woman whose face is covered in traditional local tattoos, did not
realise the mule was pregnant and rode her 20 kilometres to market the day
before the birth." |
"No big deal, you may think, but in fact the birth was a minor scientific miracle. A mule is the hybrid of a horse and a donkey and should be sterile - except in this instance. There have only been two substantiated cases of a mule giving birth in the past quarter century: one in China in 1988 and the other also in Morocco in 1984. A horse has 64 chromosomes and a donkey has 62, so a mule is left with 63, an uneven number which cannot divide into chromosome pairs. This normally makes a mule unable to reproduce. However there have been, since 1527, (when records began on the issue) a total of 60 reported cases of mules giving birth. "The occurrence is so historically rare that the Romans had a saying Cum mula peperit, meaning 'when a mule foals', the equivalent of our 'once in a very blue moon'," explained Dr Gigi Kay, a horse vet with the charity, the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad ." |
| Genetic Discussion: A mule is 1/2 horse and 1/2 donkey. Each pair of chromosomes has 1 of each. There is a random chance that a zygote will have all the horse or all the donkey chromosomes. If the zygote is so endowed, then the egg or sperm will be equally fertile as one coming from that species. So you could get a pure horse from a mule/donkey cross, or another mule, or a pure donkey from a mule/donkey cross. | |
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