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On 1/7/06, Carol Scott <CJScott2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The coco color with siver is very nice but there are other things that come
> with this ( in most breeds for some reason) bad eyes. Carol IL.
This is called "silver dapple" and is a dilution gene that affects
only the color black, causing it to dilute to a chocolate color with
lighter points (mane, tail)  It exists in pony breeds, walking horses,
Morgans, and Rocky Mountain horses. Some confuse it with smutty
palomino or liver chestnut, although a horse that is a silver dapple
and displays those characteristics will either be heterozygous or
homozygous for black. The mane and tail usually end up darkening with
age, but some breeders dye it to maintain the "look". A horse that is
homozygous for this sometimes carries something called "ASD" which is
an eye disorder. I believe the Rocky Mountain registry has had some
issue with this in the past, but do not know all the details. THe
Rocky Mountain registry calls these hroses "chocolate" and the gene on
a bay horse (which looks really interesting, btw) they call "red
chocolate".

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