New Horse Coats
Adding Extra Flair
There's a new reason to worship the keyboards the HEE Art Team use! Or rather several gorgeous reasons!
They have blessed us with not One, not Two, but FOUR new coats!
Dominant White Mutation 1
The DW Mutation 1 shows as a blanket revealing the horse's underlying color.
Horses with other patterns along with dominant white will show in increased white coverage.
Cadence Farm's Example: CLICK
Dominant White
Horses who present as white are born without pigment - showing pink skin and white hair. They differ from Grey horses who present as white but were born with pigmented skin and have greyed out over time ultimately showing white hair. The tell tale signs of a grey horse are dark skin. Sometimes they are deceiving when they have natural white markings on the face, legs, or from a coat pattern.
White Horses must have a Dominant W to show White. Homozygous White will result in a Lethal White Syndrome foal and the foal will die. In the Game - the Foal will not exist but count as a breeding for the mare and stallion.
Dominant White Mutation 2
The DW Mutation 2 shows a sprinkling of the underlying color popping through the white white coat
Horses with other patterns along with dominant white will show in increased white coverage.
Cadence Farm's Example: CLICK
Grey Mutation
Bloody Shoulder
Grey horses are born showing their true color and over time the grey gene removes the pigment turning the horse to a white color.
Bloody Shoulder or Blood Marks, are a random mutation on Grey Horses.
They can appear anywhere on the body.
Most often seen on Fleabitten Greys.
The DNA that dictates the color of the coat will randomly mutate and turn on the pigment that the grey allele would otherwise remove.
Examples of the
Bloody Shoulder Marking
Sport Horse with Bloody Shoulder and Bend-Or Spots Markings
