Hello there! I don’t know if you’ve talked about this before but in the white spotting post you mentioned horses having high amounts of “chrome”. What is chrome?
Ps. Thank you for making the hose gene master post. It was a delight to read.
Chrome is a descriptive term for horses with a lot of white markings. Here's a horse with some chrome:
And then here's one with no chrome:
The word chrome doesn't actually say anything about the genetic cause of those white markings. The markings of that horse in the first picture could be caused by a number of different genes.














