perchie.girl
RIP 1953-2021
Quote:Ooh! Silver Dapple is one of my favorite colors, though the ones I like best are gray on the body rather than chocolate brown.Liver Chestnut. One of my mini's is this color but his mane and tail are silver white.
my last horse's sire was a Black grey Arabian Stallion... Desert bloodlines ... white on black dapples with a white mane and tail.... Sigh unfortunately all greys become white....
deb

Whether a gray will turn white depends on whether they are gray because of the gray gene, or whether they are grey because of the Silver gene. Silver Blacks don't gray out, unless they also have the gray gene.
This one, for example, won't gray out:
ooooh nice.... see.... I am not quite up on all the color genetics out there. My girl is black and has always had this kind of dappling... black on black... a sign of good health too.
deb