Horse Genetics Resources
We are excited to finally have a test up and running for the Colourful Gambler line of Australian dominant white horses. This specific mutation has been assigned the name W27. Just like W22 (see previous post), W27 can cause variable amounts of…
W13 is a dominant white gene that was first identified in a Quarter Horse x Peruvian Paso horse in the USA. But this guy – Sweetwater Picasso Painted Wild, born in 1983 in the USA and imported to Australia – was found…
Dun and d1 (nd1) are different versions (alleles) of the same gene. The coat colour and markings associated with d1 reflect what is commonly referred to as counter-shading.These horses are expected to have a dorsal stripe and possibly other markings usually associated…
Researchers have found there is little real truth to the age old stereotype of the hot-headed chestnut horse. Researcher Brandon Velie (previously from Sydney University) and a team from the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics at the Swedish University of Agricultural…
My erudite readers are no doubt saddened by my grammar in that title. They are right to be, of course. But you have to break eggs to make an omelette, and when it’s time to describe a coat colour with one name…
Horses and ponies have a really diverse range of white coat colour markings. Frame overo markings include eye-catching white patches and often a white face accompanied by one or two blue eyes. The amount of white on a frame overo horse or…
For people, inheriting the family silver can be a mixed blessing, depending on your feelings regarding elderly cutlery or dinnerware. Horses have it easier: they don’t have any cutlery at all, and inheriting the family silver often means they have unusual –…
I expect that most of you know that only sparkling wines produced in the Champagne region of France are technically allowed to be labelled as champagne. Here in Australia, locally produced wines in this style are called sparkling wines instead. Once, at…
Palomino and buckskin are probably my two favourite coat colours. They can be absolutely stunning! I used to have a few a few copies of various Quarter Horse magazines from the USA that I would go over again and again, admiring various…
I once owned a flea-bitten grey pony with the delightfully misleading name of ‘Diablo’. The rumour about this sweet, chubby gelding was that he was half Welsh Mountain Pony, half Standardbred, the product of an unsanctioned dalliance at a local agricultural show….