Need help with color and name...TEST RESULTS ARE IN! - pg7

[tagalong]

Just for fun - I'll guess smokey cream.

Like this...

 

[disneyhorse]

I think the odds genetically are in favor of perlino, but I think she's a smokey cream. My perlino QH was not that dark when she was born... she was pretty "white"...

Here's my perlino QH mare at a day old and then now:

Her dam was a cremello, her sire a buckskin. I'd guess there are different shades of perlino though, just like there are different shades of buckskin??? Hmmm now I'm thinking I'm going to change my guess to perlino for your kid... the smutty kind

Andrea

 

[horsehug]

Mona,

I just love your new baby girl!!

How tall is she?

And being a color nut, like the others I am anxiously awaiting your DNA tests!!

Susan O.

 

[Mona]

Mona,
I just love your new baby girl!!

How tall is she?

And being a color nut, like the others I am anxiously awaiting your DNA tests!!

Susan O.

Thanks Susan. I got her at about 21.25" (after a couple of days when she was up on her feet better). Her mid knee to coronet measurement was 7" at birth, but I am not o sure those can be done real accurately either.

Yes, I will be sure to post her test results here when I get them back.

 

[Mona]

Well, it looks like the following people were correct in their color guesses...

eagles ring farm

cretahillsgal

Maple Hollow Farm

Jill

midnight star stables

MiLo Minis

rabbitsfizz (one of her 2 guessses

)

Jessica 06

Tami

RJRMINIS

kaykay

I tested her for Agouti and Red Factor. I am still waiting on the red factor, but I think it is quite obvious she is black based...I wanted to know if she was homozygous for black or not, why I had her tested for that. She is Aa for agouti, so as long as she tests Ee or EE for red, this means she is indeed a perlino!

I thought smokey cream but I am HAPPY to be wrong!!

Here she is today, at 8 days of age...still pink skin and blue eyes. I did not have her tested for cream, but she is obviously a double dilute.

Thanks again to all for your input! If by chance the red factor test results come back ee I'll let you know she' a cremello instead of a perlino!

UPDATE: Just got the rest of the test results. She tested EE for red...she is homozygous black!

 

[Jill]

Woohoo!!! I told ya so!!!

She is one pretty girly girl!!!

 

[~Amanda~]

Very neat! Will her points get darker or more "orangey" when she is older perhaps?

 

[mizbeth]

She is very very nice, no matter what her color. But she does appear to be a buckskin of some color and her eyes appear blue in one of the photos. Could she have white on her face causing the pink skin around her eyes? Some pink skinned horses, skin turns dark as they age. Sorrels especially do although I know she is long ways from sorrel. I had a silver white sabino colt born here one year who was white skinned everywhere, eyes included but his skin turned dark by the time he was one year old. All of his skin did, body, face etc.

Pretty girl......

Beth

 

[mizbeth]

Gee, guess I should have read all the posts before answering

These photos definately make her look different than the first ones.

Congrats, such a pretty little head too.

Beth

 

[RobinRTrueJoy]

OMG! She is wonderful. I would like to call her MINE!!!!

Robin

 

[midnight star stables]

She IS beautiful!

:wub

 

[ruffian]

"Last Chance Supremes Creme Brulee" It's arich dessert with a light golden middle and crispy darker golden edges. Yummy!

I really like this name!

She's gorgeous Mona!

 

[RJRMINIS]

Hi Mona,

Yeah! I am happy you got the results...she is a doll.

So if you know they are double dilute, you don't really need to test for cream right?

You have me wanting to get my girls tested(mare & filly)

I always thought you had to test for all 3.

But that would save me $50 on the mare and filly as I know they are for sure DD

I think I will test my filly for champagne, just because so many have said something about it....so I would need to test for red factor, agouti, and champagne on her since we know she is DD.

And on my mare I will just need to do red factor and agouti?

Is that correct?

THanks!

 

[Mona]

Hi Mona,
Yeah! I am happy you got the results...she is a doll.


So if you know they are double dilute, you don't really need to test for cream right?


You have me wanting to get my girls tested(mare & filly)


I always thought you had to test for all 3.


But that would save me $50 on the mare and filly as I know they are for sure DD


I think I will test my filly for champagne, just because so many have said something about it....so I would need to test for red factor, agouti, and champagne on her since we know she is DD.


And on my mare I will just need to do red factor and agouti?


Is that correct?

 


THanks!

Well you don't HAVE to test for cream if you are sure they are, but that would be the only way of giving you the 100% difinitive answer in scientific form..."proof" if you will. (I opted to save my money...I feel I already have the "proof in the pudding".

If you are going to have your filly tested for champagne, I would skip her for now and test Mom and Dad for it first. That way you will know for sure if either carries it. It may save you money in the long run...if they are both negative, you would never need to test their offspring unless they were bred to other champagne horses.

You are correct in needing to test for red factor and agouti though at least, in both mare and filly to determine whether they are smokey cream, perlino, or cremllo.

GOOD LUCK! Will be awaiting your results!

 

[Mona]

"Last Chance Supremes Creme Brulee" It's arich dessert with a light golden middle and crispy darker golden edges. Yummy!I really like this name!

She's gorgeous Mona!

Hmmm, now that you have "described" Creme Brulee in such a manner as you have here, it sounds tempting to change her name! LOL!! If I use it though, I think I would change the position of Supreme in the name and instead have it as "Last Chance Creme Brulee Supreme", or does that sound too stupid?? Or maybe leave it as you had it and drop the "s" from Supremes, to "Last Chance Supreme Creme Brulee". So...what do ya think??

You guys are just NO help in helping me with my wishy-washy decision making on her name!

 

[RJRMINIS]

Thanks Mona, I did test her sire and he is smokey cream, but not for champagne, but I have since sold him, so I will have to test the filly to be sure. I know she is double dilute, as well as her dam.......but I do know they printed his correct color on her sires Certificate from Animal Genetics when I tested him for all 3( cream, red factor and agouti) So I guess to have it printed on the certificate I would have to do all 3....

 

[wc minis]

Mona, congrats, she's gorgeous!! I love the name

 

[ontherisefarm]

Congratulations on your filly ! She is definitely a cutie...

 

[horsehug]

She is so adorable, Mona I just love her

And I was thinking probably perlino also, so it makes me feel good to know maybe I am getting a "little" more color saavy as time goes by!

Susan O.

 

[rabbitsfizz]

You know, I have to say that on second (and third) thoughts I would have laid money on her being Smoky Cream, so the results do surprise me.

Just goes to show you can't tell by looking!!!