Wild Card Walkaloosas

12/07/2024

27/05/2024

Walkaloosas on trail getting ready for our next endurnace ride in mid June!

14/05/2024

02/04/2024

Wren showing off her confidence turning into capability!

02/02/2024

Maybe a preview to some appy color our Walkaloosa filly Wren will develop down the line? 👀❤️

21/01/2024

Our Walkaloosa filly Wren is a brave girl! She wanted to join her ‘uncles’ on a trail ride around the property so we let her. Mom was back at the pasture 😁

19/01/2024

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19/01/2024

Clear sample of the difference white sclera makes! Our available 2023 foals Walkaloosa filly Wren on the left and RMH c**t Talon on the right.
We are staying warm through the cold weather and hope you are as well!

08/12/2023

Wren providing help spreading our sand

15/11/2023

We were lucky to be able to go and ride some beautiful Michigan shoreline with our walkaloosas! Gaiting on the beach is a pretty great feeling 😉

11/10/2023

Today we hosted the grade school I went to for a field trip. The foals were a very cute welcome party.

02/10/2023

This is dressage. Or-- wait-- is it? Actually, yes. According to our own United States Dressage Federation, the purpose of dressage is: "to strengthen and supple the horse while maintaining a calm and attentive demeanor." That is verbatim. I would like to underscore the "calm and attentive demeanor" part. To clarify: we are not seeking the mastery of keeping a calm arena environment. We are seeking to make our horses more capable in the world, both physically and mentally.

03/08/2023

Didn’t think her tawny color would stick around as she blew her foal coat but our Walkaloosa filly Miss Wren is hard to predict!

Here she is pictured with the results of her curious/destructive streak lol

13/07/2023

We have a barn name and genetic results!

Meet Wren!
She is Ee aa D/n Lp/n W20/n DMRT3/n and 6-panel clean. Walkaloosa Horse Association registration pending. 🥰

30/06/2023

A great write up on the Leopard Complex gene (Lp) by another appaloosa colored breed!

30/06/2023

Learning and doing all the horsey things! She gets defensive of her lovely gut building poo meals. But she is also figuring out that people can be pretty cool.

07/02/2022

Follow up on coat colors and outcomes…

What do all four of these horses have in common (other than the fact we have or previously owned all four 🤣)?

THEY ARE ALL HOMOZYGOUS FOR PATN1!

After my last post, I had a few people ask about breeding to leopards. Let’s take a look at Hades (Sartors Falcetto)!

Hades is LP/lp and PATN1/PATN1 which means he is heterozygous for LP and homozygous for PATN1. PATN1 is a modifier of LP and controls the amount of white in the actual coat - ONLY if LP is present. If no LP is present, a horse with PATN1 will be solid. (Disclaimer: there are other untestable PATN modifiers but as of now the only testable modifier is PATN1).

You’ll recall from the post yesterday that the vast majority of leopard horses will always have a SINGLE copy of LP and either one or two copies of PATN1. 🧬

There is no phenotypical difference in whether a leopard horse has one or two copies of PATN1. And I think people get MOST confused by this since PATN1 alone doesn’t produce any white patterning. What does this mean? You can have a horse homozygous for PATN1 (with no LP) and they will be completely solid and have absolute NO characteristics unless they also have the LP “ingredient”.

So what would the benefit of a heterozygous vs homozygous PATN1 horse be? For a fewspot, it’s clear you’d have the genetic benefit of genetically producing a leopard when breeding to a fewspot that is homozygous for PATN1.

For leopards, it can get a bit more complicated to map out. When breeding a leopard to a solid or a leopard to a leopard - with the intention of producing a leopard horse, we know we need ONE copy of LP and one or two copies of PATN1. If you have a solid mare (with no PATN1 - like 99.99999999% of TB or WB mares), you then need the leopard stallion to pass on both the LP and PATN1 genetics. The leopard will NEVER have more than one copy of LP. So that will always be a 50/50 shot. BUT the leopard stallion can be either homozygous or heterozygous for PATN1. In the example of our leopard stallion, he is homozygous for PATN1 which means he will always genetically pass on one copy to his foals.

What happens if you breed a solid horse to Hades and he passes on the PATN1 but not the LP? You’ll produce a solid foal. But if retained into a breeding program, that solid foal can later be bred to a fewspot or another leopard (or another solid with only PATN1) with the hopes of producing offspring homozygous for PATN1.

Pictured below from top left to bottom left (clockwise):
1. Neubrans Togo Jr - newly imported homozygous fewspot Knabstrupper c**t bred by our friend Majbritt Boksa Skaaning Dragsdal and will hopefully be standing at Murder Hollow in a few years 😍 (LP/LP, PATN1/PATN1)
2. HMH Phantastic - homozygous leopard Appaloosa mare (LP/lp, PATN1/PATN1)
3. CTR Turn and Burn - homozygous PATN1 solid Appaloosa stallion bred by a VERY dear friend - Cheryl Woods! (lp/lp, PATN1/PATN1)
4. Sartors Falcetto - homozygous leopard Knabstrupper stallion bred by our friend Karina Sartor Westergaard and standing at Murder Hollow (LP/lp, PATN1/PATN1)

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