TB-Appy crosses that really looks TB (PHOTOS)

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ElPrado
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Postby ElPrado » Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:26 pm

I Love Willie was simply an Appaloosa that also had a greying gene. The gene is at a different locus on the DNA. A real few spot does not lose the spot color. Prince's Jim, for instance, had three black spots on his right shoulder. They stayed black throughout his life. That's what he was born with. I had four foals by him in my herd. Two were black unchanging leopards, one a big snow cap blanket and one a grulla with a spotted blanket, like her dam.