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Greater Basilisk wrote:
There are European breeds that have palomino coloring – I’ve got two representatives in the barn. 🙂 I think Haflingers are a very old breed, but at least in German they’re called “brown” or “creme”, not chesnut or palomino.
Halflingers can’t be palomino. If you breed two Halflingers, you get a foal with the same coloring. If they were Palomino, you would get a cremello foal.
Arabs do not carry the creame gene that gives you palomino and buckskins. They do carry chestnut that looks a lot like palomino. Genetic testing confirms chestnut.Beautiful painting!
starbreeze wrote:I wonder if anyone will ever be able to breed palominos…it seems to be so elusive…
they are a very wanted color….but usually never get a pure palomino….we registered them as dun…or red dun….because of dorsal strips or other variations in the color….and people would be so mad because they wanted their papers to say palomino….and it just wasn’t going to happen
With all the genetic tinkering going on these days, they’ll probably pin the gene down eventually….or else they’ll just clone one over and over and over again…
starbreeze wrote:With all the genetic tinkering going on these days, they’ll probably pin the gene down eventually….or else they’ll just clone one over and over and over again…
oh they already have it all mapped out….last I heard they weren’t going to register cremello’s and purlino’s because they were considered genetic junk….then they did start because the guy that was doing the colors kept getting death threats from horse owners wanting to register those colors….
another reason I’m happy I don’t work there anymore….most horse owners are just psychotic…
starbreeze wrote:I bet the dog show world is just as bad….
I have a friend in Phoenix that shows dogs….and yeah it’s interesting… 😯
starbreeze wrote:thoroughbred horse racing has it’s horrors too….bleh
oh yeah we had some double registered thoroughbred’s….but quarterhorse racing i think is about the worst…
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