#horsecolors

[horsegeneticsgame]

I recreated @knabstrupper.stal on tiktok’s, bay few spot Knabstrupper stallion Pax Asgard af Pegasus using code in my game. Whose horse should I recreate next?

[camelidae]

Anybody else spend an inordinate amount of time googling color variations of horses? Or is that just me? Anyway, after binging on dun and bay variants, I decided to try some of them out on unicorns. #unicorn #fantasyanimals #equine #horsecolors #fantasy #fantasyillustration #illustration #painting #art #sketchbook #animals #animalart

[horsegeneticsgame]

Say hello to Milos de Verano @milosdeverano the lovely palomino tobiano Andalusian x Paint horse. Milos was my newest inspiration for recreation in the game. Did I do him justice? Whose horse should I recreate next.

[horsegeneticsgame]

Check out how I create appaloosa horses from code. It’s a super fiddly process requiring a lot of back and forth. The appies in HGG also varnish with age, getting whiter over time. Want to see your own horse made from code? Tag me or comment below. You can create and breed your own horses for free at HorseGeneticsGame.com

[horsegeneticsgame]

I recreated @zapphirestallion on tiktok’s, buckskin Swedish Warmblood stallion Zapphire using code in my game. Whose horse should I recreate next?

[morningdustranch]

Chestnut horses are homozygous for non-extension. They always have e/e. The agouti gene does not show on chestnut horses. On MDR there are 8 chestnut shades: Light Chestnut, Gold Chestnut, Sorrel Chestnut, Chestnut, Copper Chestnut, Dark Chestnut, Liver Chestnut and Dark Liver Chestnut. A special note about the chestnut is that they not only come in different shades but their mane and tail can also have different shades apart from the body color. Chestnuts can either have the same shade for mane and tail as for the body or one shade lighter or one shade darker. Again, this is due to the shading genes the horse carries.

[morningdustranch]

Horse Coloration: Part 1 - Black

Black horses do have at least one allele for the extension gene, but no agouti color. Their genotype will appear as the following: E/e a/a or E/E a/a. Blacks with two extension alleles will pass on one extension allele to every foal. These are called homozygous blacks. At MDR we have four different shades of black: Coal Black, Black, Pitch Black, and Jet Black. These shades are not random, but rather interpreted through a unique genetic system which has never been revealed. At least, we can say that the darker shades are dominant to lighter shades. There are different shades of bay, sealbrown and chestnut as well!