Dapples on horses share

[MBhorses]

Hey I see this weekend my buckskin mare has alot of dapples that didn't show up before.

What causes the dapples?Is this a pattern?Her dam is silver dapple and sire is cremello.

 

[aliasmel]

Feed and genetics will do it. Copra, livamol and Lucerne will do it, all darkening feeds. Or it could just be in her genes

 

[Matt73]

Dapples, if a horse can get them, genetically, are a product of good health and sun

. Most dapples fade in the Winter months and are fully expressed in the Summer. It's always been a big pet peeve of mine when people refer to silver blacks as silver dapples; like a dappled grey horse, the term "dapple" is just a modifying description; my silver black was devoid of dapples until the Spring/Summer. So, she could have been called a dappled silver or dappled silver black

. II also had a bay Thoroughbred that was dull in the winter but had the most amazing dapples in the Summer. He was a bay, not a bay dapple . Just a bay with dapples in the summer...or a dappled bay.

 

[fourluckyhorseshoes]

I have a Haflinger/QH who is sorrel-palomino-ish and he gets dapples in the summer.