Genotype: chestnut with blue eyes?

[baekhsong]

hello again !!

ive been thinking a lot about my first horse character and i need to have a chestnut (gentle red chestnut?? if that is even possible) akhal teke with blue eyes. theyre going to have minimal markings (probably a small star facial marking and 2 short hindleg socks).

now, i think this is very unrealistic and probably impossible in real life but would that even be translatable to genotype? i know nothing about colour genetics :^(

[AndrewSatchmore]

Hi!
I'm not into akhal takes, but check this link out! It might help you with your questions.

Horse Color

[baekhsong]

that website mentions how one blue eye is not unusual in chestnut, bay and black so thats good news haha :^D thank you for sharing !

im still unsure about the genetic code. would that depend on the dam/sire too ?

[OtterCreekStables]

Well I think it could be some kind of W (Splash and Dominant White gene) that as in the link said looks like sabino but isnt. So you could make a minimal "splash" fitting into this category, thus making blue eyes as splash does and minimal markings like a little bigger blaze and four socks or something

[winstone]

Blue eyes can pop up without a special geno...So you can have a solid chestnut, with no patterns at all, but it can still have blue eyes

[baekhsong]

thus

do you mean i should change the design? because i dont want to or would it be more like the splash gene is in the horse and can be passed on but the horse itself is still solid (almost) chestnut ? im sorry this whole genetics is a whole new world to me i literally know 0 about it oTL

how accurate do i actually have to be on es haha i had an idea of searching for real life akhal tekes online and making them dam and sire to my horse so im thinking what best coats they should be to make my horse comprehendible? pshh i dont know anymore oTL

eyes

thats amazing! is it really like that in real life? wow ! my dream horse could really be out there if so haha

edit: i just realised i quoted you guys wrong oTL sorry im on my phone

[winstone]

Yes, random blue eyes happens in real life! Although somewhat rare, it does happen enough that it's not so weird

[CascabelRanch]

You can have a splash carrier with markings as minimal one hind sock and a star, the blue eyes could definitely be attributed to splash with the markings you described or like Octavia stated, it could be unexplained blue eyes in which case it would have a regular chestnut genotype with nothing extra.

[baekhsong]

You can have a splash carrier with markings as minimal one hind sock and a star, the blue eyes could definitely be attributed to splash with the markings you described or like Octavia stated, it could be unexplained blue eyes in which case it would have a regular chestnut genotype with nothing extra.

i researched some akhal teke studs but there's so little out there with splash! i guess ill have to go with random blue eyes like Octavia mentioned.. or i keep looking haha thank you guys for the help!