2022年11月29日 · What is a Taffy horse? Silver (taffy) coat colours include the eye-catching black silver (aka silver dapple) and bay silver. The silver gene alters the distribution of black pigment but does not affect red. This means that the effect of the silver gene is not visible on chestnut horses and other colours that have no black, such as palomino.

2020年3月24日 · The Silver horse also called Silver Dapple or “Taffy” (in Australia), is affected by the Silver dilution gene that lightens the black hair pigment but has almost no effect on red pigment. The coat often has dapples, which is why it is also called Silver Dapple. The manes and tails can vary from a pure white shade to a very dark silver.

The two basic pigment colors of horse hairs are pheomelanin ("red"), which produces a reddish brown color, and eumelanin, which produces black. These two hair pigment genes create two base colors: chestnut, which is fully red, and black, which is fully black. All other coat colors are created by additional genes that modify these two base colors.

Bay horses with the silver gene are turned to a bright reddish orange with rich chocolate or tan points. The mane and tail are blonde, sometimes streaked with silvery black hairs. They may look like flaxen chestnut but their manes and tails have dark rather than flxen roots. Brown horses with silver are unusual and quite stunning.

The Rocky Mountain Horse breed calls this color Chocolate. In other breeds it is known as Silver Dapple or Taffy. Here is information and picture examples of many different Chocolate horses.

In Australia, a Silver Black is referred to as a Taffy. We like to refer to the color as Silver Black since it best indicated the genetics of the color. A Chocolate Palomino is a dark palomino (a dark red horse with the cream gene) and does not involve the silver gene.

The Taffy gene (sometimes known as Silver) has limited effect on red pigment, but changes black pigment to chocolate giving the silver dapple on a black base and red taffy on bay. Homozygous Taffy has been associated with an eye disorder called A.S.D. in which they may very rarely , …

2022年11月29日 · The Silver horse also called Silver Dapple or “Taffy” (in Australia), is affected by the Silver dilution gene that lightens the black hair pigment but has almost no effect on red pigment. The coat often has dapples, which is why it is also called Silver Dapple.

2022年9月6日 · Until recently, this gene was also referred to as "taffy." Visit our QH Colors page to see some mature silver horses. Sorrel Bay Brown Black Grullo Dun Red Dun

Thoroughbred pedigree for Red Taffy, progeny, and female family reports from the Thoroughbred Horse Pedigree Query.