All you color genetic experts, I need your help!!!

accphotography · 06-04-2008, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by gigga

ok Im gonna steel this tread and ask if a red dun can be flaxen???

Absolutely.

ACC

Berlunz · 06-04-2008, 02:31 PM

lol, a lot of horse people refer to chestnut as the darker shaded sorrel horses, so the ones who are darker and more brown looking are what some people call "chestnuts". The lighter, more red looking ones are called "sorrels". Its kinda like people who call all foals, colts, technically speaking they can be "wrong" but in the horse world there are lots of "exceptions".

accphotography · 06-04-2008, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Berlunz

lol, a lot of horse people refer to chestnut as the darker shaded sorrel horses, so the ones who are darker and more brown looking are what some people call "chestnuts". The lighter, more red looking ones are called "sorrels". Its kinda like people who call all foals, colts, technically speaking they can be "wrong" but in the horse world there are lots of "exceptions".

All soo true unfortunately.

ACC

Miss Neigh · 06-04-2008, 02:41 PM

look the same to me, we call them chestnuts here i've never heard anyone say sorrel in aust..

accphotography · 06-04-2008, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Miss Neigh

look the same to me, we call them chestnuts here i've never heard anyone say sorrel in aust..

Sorrel is definitely a western American thing. I heard it (and "colt") mostly in Texas, but I hear it sometimes here in backwoods Kentucky.

ACC

gigga · 06-04-2008, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by accphotography

Absolutely.

ACC

ok.. cuz I think my mare is red dun flaxen

Heavenly Jumper · 06-04-2008, 02:48 PM

po-tay-to, po-tah-to

I've heard both and any red horse to me is a chestnut.

Flaxen, liver or otherwise.

Jeblina · 06-04-2008, 03:17 PM

Thank you guys....you have proven my point and won my bet

Debbie z. · 06-04-2008, 04:49 PM

F gene is what causes the lighter color in mane/tail in chesnuts. White gene will mask chesnut shade. Sorry had to clarify my sentence alittle more in detail.

Debbie z. · 06-04-2008, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Miss Neigh

look the same to me, we call them chestnuts here i've never heard anyone say sorrel in aust..

They look the same. But genetically speaking their are ways to determine the breakdown of the colors by eye and scientifically. It's very interesting. And registering is another way to associations. Not that is all agreeable.

06-04-2008, 02:31 PM	#12
Berlunz Senior Member+ Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 942 Images: 12 Blog Entries: 1	lol, a lot of horse people refer to chestnut as the darker shaded sorrel horses, so the ones who are darker and more brown looking are what some people call "chestnuts". The lighter, more red looking ones are called "sorrels". Its kinda like people who call all foals, colts, technically speaking they can be "wrong" but in the horse world there are lots of "exceptions". __________________ We can never make a horse do something it does not want to. We can encourage them to do something they are afraid of, and we can ask them to do something they don't like. But you will never be able to force them to do something they don't want too.

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Miss Neigh Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: qld, australia Posts: 1,874 Images: 59	look the same to me, we call them chestnuts here i've never heard anyone say sorrel in aust.. __________________ Happiness is like a butterfly... pursue it and it will be beyond your grasp, but sit down and it may alight upon you

06-04-2008, 02:48 PM	#17
Heavenly Jumper Senior Member+ Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Camden County GA Posts: 14,546 Images: 1286 Blog Entries: 240	po-tay-to, po-tah-to I've heard both and any red horse to me is a chestnut. Flaxen, liver or otherwise. __________________ My husband is away...if I am crabby, whiney or generally unpleasant, I apologize. Being a Navy wife is the hardest thing I've ever done...and I do it for you. .'~'. epi tan e epi tas .'~'.

06-04-2008, 03:17 PM	#18
Jeblina Senior Member+ Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Port St. John, FL Posts: 1,359 Images: 593 Blog Entries: 4	Thank you guys....you have proven my point and won my bet __________________ If you don't like something, change it... If you can't change it.... Change the way you think about it!

06-04-2008, 04:49 PM	#19
Debbie z. Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: New Jersey Posts: 588 Images: 18	F gene is what causes the lighter color in mane/tail in chesnuts. White gene will mask chesnut shade. Sorry had to clarify my sentence alittle more in detail. __________________ 1st comes the horse, then my family, and then myself..

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