New Filly!!

Thanks! What bloodlines did you have?

Nope…no “goggles”. 😀 And no gray anywhere at the moment. Out of about 12 foals, only 1 was born with the gray around the eyes so far. My stallion is actually homozygous for black; doesn’t carry the red gene for chestnut, or the agouti gene for bay. Unfortunately, gray is a “masking” gene; it covers all colors, and you have a 50% chance of any offspring being gray right off the top. Almost all of our foals so far have been born black, and turned gray later at various ages–I have one colt we sold who just turned 5, and he’s still 99% black. And on the other hand, I have a yearling colt here now whose mother is also gray, and he’s already going gray. This girl’s half siblings were born very nearly the same color she is right now, kind of a mouse color, with the silvery legs, no gray visible anywhere for at least the first 6 months. There is a *very* small chance that Misty will be either black or black bay. I really need to see her outside in good light and take pictures to be able to get a better idea. She hasn’t been outside yet because we’ve had nothing but rain for like the last week or so, and everything is nothing but mud. 🙁 I hope she’ll give me an idea of what color she’ll be before she goes to her new home. She’s already spoken for, and will be going to Colorado when she’s old enough to travel.
The vet feels she’s gray, and I did, too until I was looking closer at her tonight. Her color is subtly different from a couple of the others. She’s not as brown over her body, and her legs are more silver–her sister’s lower legs were almost a tweed color. So, now I’m not sure. :shrug:
I can’t wait to see her go outside for the first time. That’s always neat to watch. I’ll have to charge up the video camera. 8)

Yay! Haven’t heard horsey-speak since I was in school for range animal science a bazillion years ago. Where will she be in CO? I’m in the middle-ish eastern side…

My mare, Mirraj, is a black bay. Her son was born the same, but had the ‘goggles’ and silvery legs, so he turned fairly quickly. His name is Jeran, and he’s steel and silver with dapples right now. I lost his daddy, Co Ment, a couple of years ago, and still miss him terribly. DragonsRage (my hubby) and his daughter have a Quarter mare that is bred to a monster black Andalusian/Quarter cross. Her name is Trouble, she’s chestnut, and she’s due (probably) the last week of June. (don’t know for sure, but she was covered the last time on 28 July last year…)

Will definitely have to talk with you again! I’m headed for the barn now–they are boarded, so it’s a drive (and a drag not having them on the same property). :bye:

Misty will be going to Peyton, CO just outside of Colorado Springs. She’s going to Holly Arabians, which is where her mother came from. 😉

I like the steel gray with dapples, and wish they’d stay that color. The 3 year old filly here is an iron gray with the dapples beginning. Too bad she won’t stay that shade. 😀

My 3/4 Arab Pinto gelding is predominantly Crabbet breeding–Raffles shows up a bit in his pedigree, along with Skowronek. The purebreds here are all Blue List (eligible) and can be considered “straight Desert-Bred”–they go back to the desert in every single line of the pedigree.
I have one mare who has a lot of Ansata lines. I liked the look of Ibn Halima, and usually can tell on sight if a horse has Ansata breeding. The most prevalent lines for me are Babson Egyptian. My guys aren’t Straight Egyptians, though…they’re Egyptian related.
Hey, you want horsey-speak? You got it! 😀 😀