Posted 2017-08-03 8:57 PM Subject: My yearling has stripes??
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My yearling filly is turning out to be a blue roan. Her sire is gray and dam is red roan. She started getting the zebra leg stripes and now has stripes on her barrel and neck as well. I have never seen a horse with so many stripes but am starting to read it's a roan trait. Thoughts??
Posted 2017-08-03 9:55 PM Subject: RE: My yearling has stripes??
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Posts: 965 Location: In the back forty
A lot of duns and red duns have stripes on their legs, but the only ones I've heard of having stripes on their barrel (or other parts of their body) is sometimes chimeras I think have them--makes them look like they are brindle. Edited to say the posters below are absolutely right, also line-back and also grullas....I think my brain was m.i.a. when I typedthe first part of my post.
Posted 2017-08-03 10:21 PM Subject: RE: My yearling has stripes??
IndisMindis - 2017-08-03 8:57 PM
My yearling filly is turning out to be a blue roan. Her sire is gray and dam is red roan. She started getting the zebra leg stripes and now has stripes on her barrel and neck as well. I have never seen a horse with so many stripes but am starting to read it's a roan trait. Thoughts??
Think dun or grulla .. these colored horse breeders treasure the ones
that show up with stripes and bars !
Posted 2017-08-04 7:08 AM Subject: RE: My yearling has stripes??
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Posts: 534 Location: Ohio girl moved to PA
I have a dun paint and when he was younger he used to have the stripes on his belly, theyve went away as hes gotten older but he still have his stripe down his back and on his legs. The tips of his ears are also darker too. I just love when they come out in the summer.
Posted 2017-08-04 10:55 AM Subject: RE: My yearling has stripes??
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Posts: 6387 Location: Pacific Northwest
Something about her face makes me think she's going to gray.
She could do both. I know a horse who was born grullo but also had the gray gene and she just kept getting lighter and lighter and now you can't tell she was ever grullo.
One way to tell is roans change seasonally but they don't get lighter with age. My dark bay roan looks plain brown during the winter and then roan in the summer. He's 18 now and we've had him since he was 4 and his color hasn't changed at all.
Posted 2017-08-04 11:05 AM Subject: RE: My yearling has stripes??
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livexlovexrodeo - 2017-08-04 10:55 AM
Something about her face makes me think she's going to gray.
She could do both. I know a horse who was born grullo but also had the gray gene and she just kept getting lighter and lighter and now you can't tell she was ever grullo.
One way to tell is roans change seasonally but they don't get lighter with age. My dark bay roan looks plain brown during the winter and then roan in the summer. He's 18 now and we've had him since he was 4 and his color hasn't changed at all.
She has change colors 5 times since January so that's what makes me think gray as well. Plus the light rings around her eyes.
Posted 2017-08-04 12:32 PM Subject: RE: My yearling has stripes??
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Posts: 6387 Location: Pacific Northwest
IndisMindis - 2017-08-04 9:05 AM
livexlovexrodeo - 2017-08-04 10:55 AM
Something about her face makes me think she's going to gray.
She could do both. I know a horse who was born grullo but also had the gray gene and she just kept getting lighter and lighter and now you can't tell she was ever grullo.
One way to tell is roans change seasonally but they don't get lighter with age. My dark bay roan looks plain brown during the winter and then roan in the summer. He's 18 now and we've had him since he was 4 and his color hasn't changed at all.
She has change colors 5 times since January so that's what makes me think gray as well. Plus the light rings around her eyes.
Posted 2017-08-06 9:10 AM Subject: RE: My yearling has stripes??
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Posts: 3496 Location: TN
she looks neat. I have seen leg stripes on a dun that was determined to be a "dunalo" how ever you spell it. she had a palimino mom but she really is a( cremelo) AQHA said a palimino can't have a dun???
Posted 2017-08-07 9:54 AM Subject: RE: My yearling has stripes??
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Posts: 3815 Location: The best kept secret in TX
Theres a facebook group for people with these horses. Wanted to add, most people with horses like this claim the stripes disappear when exposed to sunlight for long periods and claim they darken when kept inside. Check it out! https://www.facebook.com/groups/160510104117749/
My yearling has stripes??
