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Saturday, March 7, 2015

Breeding Your American Paint Horse for Specific Colors

In addition to sporting various patterns of white patches--the familiar tobiano, frame overo, sabino, or splashed white--every Paint Horse also has a background color.

There are many background colors, and the genetic control of these is complicated. Anyone wishing to breed for specific background colors has an interesting challenge to combine specific colors with specific Paint spotting patterns.

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