Lucky-C-Acres-Minis
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Might be a stupid question that I already know the answer to, but is it possible for splash white to "hide" or is it always expressed? In other words, is it possible for a solid horse to be carrying splash, yet not express it physically?
Reason I ask:
I have this mare, a solid black bay with absolutely no white on her.. Her sire is Hobby Horse's Thunder Cloud (black pinto) sired by Cochise.. Her dam is listed as a chestnut appaloosa (HNFs Freckles), however, my mare has absolutely NO appy characteristics at all, no mottling/sclera/striped hooves etc, and has only had one appy foal which was sired by my near leopard/splash stallion (foal was born solid bay but by yearling he has started to frost)
When crossed on a pinto, she's always thrown pinto, when crossed on a solid she's thrown solid (and some have had facial markings)..
So I guess my question is, can splash hide? If not, then WHERE is all the white coming from? And if not from the mare would it be safe to say that Doc is a splash carrier?
Anyway, here's the mare in question:
Luck's Little Black Daisy
Daisy again
And again
This is her pinto colt sired by a black pinto (don't have any pics of the stallion, saw one pic and he looked like a typical 50/50 black tobiano, no blue eyes, no facial markings)
A daughter we own, sired by black pinto (there is also a full sibling filly to this mare, looks identical except she has the big brown patch on both sides):
This year's colt sired by our stallion Oak Parks Oh Im Awesome:
And then she has two full sibling bay fillies, both sired by a black stallion with star/socks, one filly was completely solid, other filly had a small star.
Reason I ask:
I have this mare, a solid black bay with absolutely no white on her.. Her sire is Hobby Horse's Thunder Cloud (black pinto) sired by Cochise.. Her dam is listed as a chestnut appaloosa (HNFs Freckles), however, my mare has absolutely NO appy characteristics at all, no mottling/sclera/striped hooves etc, and has only had one appy foal which was sired by my near leopard/splash stallion (foal was born solid bay but by yearling he has started to frost)
When crossed on a pinto, she's always thrown pinto, when crossed on a solid she's thrown solid (and some have had facial markings)..
So I guess my question is, can splash hide? If not, then WHERE is all the white coming from? And if not from the mare would it be safe to say that Doc is a splash carrier?
Anyway, here's the mare in question:
Luck's Little Black Daisy

Daisy again
And again
This is her pinto colt sired by a black pinto (don't have any pics of the stallion, saw one pic and he looked like a typical 50/50 black tobiano, no blue eyes, no facial markings)

A daughter we own, sired by black pinto (there is also a full sibling filly to this mare, looks identical except she has the big brown patch on both sides):


This year's colt sired by our stallion Oak Parks Oh Im Awesome:

And then she has two full sibling bay fillies, both sired by a black stallion with star/socks, one filly was completely solid, other filly had a small star.