Which lab is best for color testing? TIA
I am not sure if they are the “best” but I have always had very quick results (couple of days after receiving it) from http://www.animalgenetics.us/equine.asp
AG is said to be the fastest, but it depends on what you need tested, as if you need brown, only Pet DNA does that, and some of them offer combo panels that might be cheaper.
Animal Genetics tends to be the cheapest, and they are extremely fast. If you provide your email address, they send an entire PDF print-out within 2 days, usually.
Thanks! Sending the sample off to Animal Genetics tomorrow.
Who/what are you testing? I’m just wondering if there is anything that might be known already from the pedigree so as to not waste $$ on a specific test 
Hopefully this picture works. This is the horse, an Appaloosa stallion who we just acquired. He kind of looks bay, then he kind of looks chestnut. And he has a beautiful silvery tail. His sire is black, dam was brown/bay. This isn’t the best picture but the other pictures I have of him aren’t mine so I don’t know if I should post them.
Ah, yeah, I see why you want to test LOL There’s nothing about his color or his parents which either rule in or out anything. Heck, he could be black LOL
I did a little snooping and found this, which has him listed as chestnut, though I don’t know if that’s via testing or just guessing based on color. His foal color may have been obviously chestnut
http://www.equinenow.com/horse-ad-751052
Oh, found this too, and he very much looks liver chestnut
http://www.horsepost.com/horse/for-sale/betney23/1133050871
He’s really nice!
I’d be curious to see your results on him. He looks “blanket varnish” to me, but I have no idea what color genes make that up.
Nice looking man regardless.
Thanks, JB! His Appaloosa Sport Horse Association papers say Bay. We haven’t gotten his ApHC papers yet so I don’t know what color is on those. We are so excited about getting him. He is the nicest horse, temperament wise, and so “pretty”! He is a big boy with really nice movement so should produce some fancy spotty sporty babies. I suspect he is homozygous for LP but am stumped as far as his base color. I’ve sent the hair off so we will know soon.
I will be eagerly waiting to see the results Appy genetics can really mean all bets are off as far as determining color by visual inspection LOL When Grullas look palomino, you sometimes just throw your hands in the air LOL
What’s true here though is that unless your posted picture shows him faded from sun, he’s lightening up in color as he ages, and that could easily be from the appy genes doing it’s color shifting work. I can see how one might think he looks bay in your picture, because his mane looks dark enough in comparison to his body color to think bay. I’m quite sure he’s not bay though, not with how he looks in the (presumably) younger age pictures from the other site. He’s either black, or chestnut and at one point was a dark liver
Wow, Animal Genetics is FAST! The results are in. Drum roll please…
He is Ee, Aa, and LP LP! So he is Bay, right? Wow. I have never seen a bay look so chestnut. Is this maybe “wild bay”?
lmao!!! Proof that no one should really be proclaiming anything definite about appy color LOLOL Since this was done at AG and not Pet DNA, he could be bay or brown. I’d really like to think brown given the tone of his color, but if we had a foal picture that might help figure it out without another test, if it’s that important. If it’s not, then you can say “bay or brown”.
