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kalixtii In reply to Hazel-rah [2015-10-12 23:07:38 +0000 UTC]
Of course ^^ and thank you for commenting on this because it reminded me that he needs a new ref!
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kalixtii In reply to Hazel-rah [2016-02-01 22:37:11 +0000 UTC]
If it were a somatic mutation she would be bay and black instead of bay and chestnut, bay and chestnut somatic cannot exist since horses don't just randomly change their genetics in one spot. Somatic and chimera are also two totally different things, and brindling and chimera result from the same fusing of two embryos of different colors, resulting in two sets of genes, whereas somatic is a group of genes getting switched off on a single horse resulting in their base color showing through (for example a somatic palomino would have chestnut patches if it wasn't grey and bloody shoulders on horses are somatic). I've found exactly no evidence that Β bay and chestnut chimera exists, rather the chimera seems to manifest as brindling on bay horses and even then it's still not chestnut. Bay and chestnut chimera can theoretically happen but until it happens in real life and there are pictures posted I'm still considering it unrealistic. Feel free to find a different mare though.
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kalixtii In reply to Hazel-rah [2016-02-02 04:30:36 +0000 UTC]
Everything she's saying is correct except it kinda sounds like she's calling the black and bay horses chimeric instead of somatic? It's really easy to tell if a horse is chimeric or somatic because if they're somatic they've only got one patch/one group of streaks of the color and if they're chimeric they've got several different sections of each the only chimera i can think of with only 1 of each color is that i think icelandic that has splash so its head and rump are the only things not white but its head is chestnut and its rump and tail are black. I mean with the current theory about it any color is possible like i could make a smoky black and palomino chimeric brindle with every single modifying gene out there that can appear at the same time and it could realistically happen as long as the sire and dam can produce it but because it's never happened in real life it remains a theory rather than an actual possibility, much like chimeric horses that aren't just chestnut and black(though apparently white modifiers appear on them but idk about the leopard complex. brindling does stay when a horse greys out though so it'll stay dark provided the other embryo didnt get the grey gene) It doesn't help that beyond knowing kinda how chimera, somatic, and brindling appears that there is pretty much nothing else known about it. Like they know it's two embryos fusing and a set of genes getting switched off but they have no idea why or what the circumstances that cause it are or anything.
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Hazel-rah In reply to kalixtii [2016-02-02 11:27:56 +0000 UTC]
Hm.. so it's still a no-go, I'm assuming? :/
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kalixtii In reply to Hazel-rah [2016-02-02 20:06:05 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, still a no on her.
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kalixtii In reply to clintissimo [2013-01-01 19:44:36 +0000 UTC]
Thankiesss <3
And I was just about to go stalk groups ;D Do you have a skype?
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kalixtii In reply to clintissimo [2013-01-01 20:39:41 +0000 UTC]
Okies XD Request sent ;D
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kalixtii In reply to clintissimo [2013-01-01 20:49:39 +0000 UTC]
It doesn't show that you did D:
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