for now, i'm just interested in phenotype (i.e. "Hey, go down and get that chestnut mare over there..."), although i feel like knowing genotypes will make it easier to remember colors and connections between them. i know my bunny coat genotypes!
any recomendations for websites to learn this stuff?
okay...phenotype can be a bit tricky, because there are rufus genes that make soooo many different shades of horse colors. Chestnut and sorrel are pretty much interchangeable...sorrel horses however are just chestnuts with panagre...but most people don't acknowledge this. However, there are some chestnuts that LOOK brown. A chestnut is homozygous for the recessive allele--e. A brown, black or bay horse will either be Ee or EE
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is there a "wild type" horse color? i.e. in rabbits, wild type is the wild bunny agouti color... and everything else is a modification of that. what is "wild type" for horses?
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Okay. First off, I'm gonna ask you a question to better answer what you need to know to answer YOUR question.
Are you speaking in terms of Phenotype or Genotype?
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for now, i'm just interested in phenotype (i.e. "Hey, go down and get that chestnut mare over there..."), although i feel like knowing genotypes will make it easier to remember colors and connections between them. i know my bunny coat genotypes!
any recomendations for websites to learn this stuff?
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is there a "wild type" horse color? i.e. in rabbits, wild type is the wild bunny agouti color... and everything else is a modification of that. what is "wild type" for horses?
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