New to Me - Brindle Dun

[dunbnwild]

y'all probably have already seen this color, but I just came across it while looking into the dun registries...it's wild--but I don't think anyone is really trying to breed for it?? Shocker.

This is the same horse--Salsa:





more examples here: www.elcascabel.com/brindlepictures.html

Per the mustangs4us website: "According to Dr. Philip Sponenberg, BRINDLE is a unique gene that acts by REORGANIZING the COUNTER-SHADING caused by the SOOTY GENE into brindle strips.

Because the striping patterns are similar to dun, it is sometimes confused with dun, especially in minimally brindle animals. For a long time, brindle was considered to be a form of dun."

Interesting...

[kigerfan]

That's wild looking but don't know if I really like it

[dunbnwild]

I don't know how I personally feel about it, either, though I'm still shocked there isn't some sort of attempt at breeding for it.

Not that I condone breeding just for color ;D of course, LOL. Just sayin'...."Loud" horses tend to be popular ones.

[prizmbluekigers]

I have seen pictures of brindle horses before on a spanidh mustang web site, check this out. It is called 'lacing". I think you will have to paste the addy in your browser. it doesn't automatically link.

www.theequinest.com/images/brindle.jpg

[dunbnwild]

Ooh-- from that website, not sure if this is the lacing or more likely the giraffe thing--wild all the different colors though ( www.theequinest.com/horse-colors-unexplained-markings-and-patterns/ ):

[kigerfan]

There's one horse on that site that look like he stood under a bird perch for way too long!

[DianneC]

I thought they had decided that brindle horses were chimeras, where two fertilized eggs merged into one. Not sure that is true though, because there are lots of brindled cows and dogs.

[angelsdream]

Those are surely different!!

[kigercat]

I wonder if some of the duns you see with the really pronounced fishbone type lines coming off the dorsel have some brindle paterning.

[fantasykiger]

I do know occasionally a dun will throw the odd vertical stripe somewhere on a horse. Cleo has brindle type markings on her neck. I was told Cowboy has other offspring that have vertical stripes on their hips. But I think DianneC is correct in the a completly brindle horse is indeed a chimera a very rare occurance. Extremely hard to breed for and I very sure folks have tried.

[dunbnwild]

Aug 11, 2009 18:36:35 GMT -5 kigerfan said:

There's one horse on that site that look like he stood under a bird perch for way too long!

On the comments a lady was saying that sometimes the spots move--and I wonder if maybe your bird theory is correct, LOL

[desperatehorsewife]

Somewhere I read that it's rather like a tortie cat...something that couldn't really be harnessed?

A friend was trying to give away a little mustang that, when wet, you could see his brindle striping. Too bad it didn't show up once he was dry, he deserved a better home than the one he had but no one seemed interested.