Do they tend to change much from their birth colouring?#
With little Finn - mother is chestnut, sire is chestnut based appaloosa. He (sire) has loud but few chestnut spots over his back end but more though smaller ones at the front, his head is like a mass of freckles.
Finn was born chestnut with a white spotted blanket bum (you may be able to correct me on what his markings are actually called), with some white spots heading up his back, like a spotty dorsal stripe, 1 white sock and a wide white blaze.
He was lighter around his stifles and elbows and his legs were almost golden rather than bright chestnut like the rest of him.
With his winter coat he is going a liver chestnut underneath, you can see it showing through his legs, around his eyes, and his quarters. His mother did the same, born chestnut - though plain, she's not a spotty - and went nearly black in her first winter, then back to and has stayed bright ginger.
I just wondered (getting to the point finally...) if his coat pattern is likely to change? If born a blanket, can they spot out to leopard?
Will remind you of the markings photo wise...
And not the best pic as he was stalking me and flinging round, but you can see how dark he's going...
Ta!!
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