Horses with a Chestnut Base Coat are homozygous recessive (ee) at the Base Coat Color locus, and produce the red pigment Pheomelanin (fee-oh-MEL-a-nin).
Also known as:
- Chestnut Base Coat
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Horse shows a diluted body color to pinkish-red, yellow-red, yellow or mouse gray and has dark points including dorsal stripe, shoulder stripe and leg barring. -
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Horse shows progressive silvering with age to white or flea-bitten, but is born a non-gray color. Pigment is always present in skin and eyes at all stages of silvering. Gray horses range from white to dark gray depending on age and the proportion of white hairs in the coat. Horses' coats gray in a... -
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Horse is fully pigmented. -
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A roan pattern of white hair mixed in with base color. -
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Causes blond ("flaxen") points on Chestnut (ee) horses. -
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