Hoof color question

[Derby_Lyn_Farms]

So this might seem like a silly question, but I am curious about this. My filly was born a light chestnut color. She could be chestnut or palomino. Time will tell with that. She definitely has a left hind sock. Her other legs are so light they almost look white, but no definite line like her hind sock has. Yesterday I noticed all 4 of her hooves are white. I probably noticed this before, but didn’t pay much attention to it.

So are all foals born with white hooves? If not, does anyone else have a horse with solid colored legs and white hooves?

[Molly_Malone]

Yup. Palomino with 4 white hooves, but only 2 white socks. Lots of ermine spotting. The spots and the white hooves indicate sabino suppression.

Oh and no they aren’t all born with white hooves (like blue eyes).

[Tasker]

@Molly Malone;6729937

Lots of ermine spotting. The spots and the white hooves indicate sabino suppression.

Sorry to barge in on this discussion, but I wanted to ask if there is a study/research paper on this facet of sabino? One of our stallions has always passed on ermine spots on the white marked legs and I’m intrigued.

TIA and apologizes for the hijack! :o

[Molly_Malone]

[QUOTE=Tasker;6730007]
Sorry to barge in on this discussion, but I wanted to ask if there is a study/research paper on this facet of sabino? One of our stallions has always passed on ermine spots on the white marked legs and I’m intrigued.

TIA and apologizes for the hijack! :o[/QUOTE]

As far as I know it’s theory, which seems to be pretty sound, but I’m not aware of actual proper research on it (that doesn’t mean there isn’t any). The sire of my filly is Guaranteed Gold, who, from all the evidence, suppresses white on his foals. Those that do come out blinged out, when they are bred produce wild wild bling - so he’s suppressing DW and Sabino (which Sabino, I don’t know, and obviously not tobiano). The unanswerable question is how much would the ermined spotted ones have had without the suppression?

My filly’s ermine spots are black and chestnut (her dam was both tobiano and sabino) - which given that GG is cremello - is also somewhat head scratching - she also carries the sooty gene… which leads to the conclusion that we still aren’t close to knowing how genes interact, even when we can see them expressed!

[SmartAlex]

My chestnut based grey has one hind hoof that grows out white. He does not have a white coronet band, and the top of the hoof is darkish but midway down it streaks and whitens. His other three hooves are dark grey with no fade.

[LaurieB]

One of our foals this year was born with three light hooves. She is very dark brown, with only a small spot of white on one leg just above the hoof. It was definitely odd to see such light hooves on such dark legs!

It took about six months for them to change, but now 3 of her 4 hooves are black and the one with the smidgen of white is striped.

[Derby_Lyn_Farms]

Here is a picture of her at a day or 2 old. http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/arcticcielo/sandbox114_zps512ea665.jpg
Her hooves are dirty in this picture, but they are all white. She has lightened up a little bit. I probably won’t see her true color until spring when she sheds out.

She does have a white lower lip, so I am assuming she has the sabino gene. Her sire is a grandson of Bright White. The sire tends to add the stockings and/or blazes to all of his foals, even though he only has one sock, a star and a snip.

[JB]

Ermine spots are much more an indicator of white suppression, which is different from any suppression caused by being black-based.

Bright White is/was a Dominant White, and that can present in a whole range of expression, from very little to, like Bright White and many in that family, all white.