BREED MUTATIONS
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Slowly and overtime, American Cattle Horses have Mutated through breeding.
These can only be obtained through breeding or rank awards.
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Many Mutations have their own specific look that differ from the ACH standards.
Crossing a Pure Mutation with a Non Mutation will show, what well call, Crosses.
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Some mutations have their own specific line art, and in breeding you may breed Mutations with non Mutation horses. When this occurs, its considered a cross. The horse may not show the all the characteristics as its Parents. As well as sometimes when breeding the same mutations together you, they may not express fully (when the foal results in an recessive Mutation.) and it may look more like a cross.
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[more info later]
DiamondBack Roan - nDb/DbDb
info soon
EXAMPLES:
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Camazotz - nTz/TzTz
info soon
EXAMPLES:
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Cortez - nCz/CzCz
Precious Alloys & Minerals from ancient cultures
Coat may become "gilded", flecks of color have attached themselves to the hair follicle. Mainly, these colors appear as speckles, like an iridescent sheen on top of the coat on neck, barrel, and rump. The hooves turn into the colors found on the body, like they are the stone or alloy that has embedded itself on the horse.
Scars & brands that have damaged the skin will show the speckling colors, not skin colors. These can be lighter or Darker.
Foundation horses will have no more than 2 colors. Colors are always in the same spectrum—Greens & Blues, Blues & Purples, Purples & Reds, Red & Oranges, Oranges & Yellows, etc etc. These colors are hereditary and will pass colors onto offspring, Breeding is the only way to get more than 2 colors on a single horse.
This mutation does not effect the mane, only scarring/branding can make the mane turn colors where the damage touches.
Min | Speckling on Soft points. + Hooves
Maximal | Max Range
Showing under white + Scars
In Breeding:
Rainbow Colored Coats
When breeding for Cortez, the foal will always have, at minimum, 1 of the parents colors. This means that breeding a Cortez with 6 colors, to a Cortez with 2 colors, the foal can have 1 or all 8 of the parents colors.
Cortez[2] x Non-Cortez
Foal with 2 colors
In this case, the foal may adopt 1 of the parents colors and do a shade/hue that's lighter/darker or 1 in the same spectrum
Cortez[2] x Cortez[1]
Foal with up to 3 colors
Foals can choose 2 parent colors and then 1[of those chosen colors] to do a hue adjustment on. This way the foal has 3 colors.
Cortez[4] x Cortez[4]
Foal with up to 8 colors
Foal with at minimum 1 or at max 8 colors.
Any of these colors can have the slight color adjustments, but they must stay within the # of colors that are allowed from the breeding
Curandero - nVd/VdVd
Dark Shaman, Medicineman of questionable morals
Dark magic has twisted them into something otherworldly. Markings are restricted to Head, Heck, and legs. The markings are like Day of the dead, organic/geometic, ritualistic. They look like they are painted/tattoo'd on the horse. they cant fade / have gradients. etc etc. Mane will show any of the mutation colors where the markings touch. Tail can show partial or full coverage of colors that are used in the mutation. Colors are optional on hooves.
Guerra - nGr/GrGr
War Paint
Patches of "paint" can be any size. More commonly on the neck, face, and rump. Color can range anywhere in the "natural horse spectrum" - meaning any horse color aside from white(paint markings).
Guerra is affected by dilutions, and shows over paint markings, unless otherwise stated.
— Guerra is covered by; breed specific mutations: Wendigo, Cortez, & Latigo.
Jackalope - nJK/JKJK
In the higher regions of the canyons, where its very grassy and shrub like, a strain of ACH were found with herds of wild burros. Thinking that the foals in the herd were just mules, the ranchers let them be, thinking they were sterile. However, the ACH genes were actually compatible and these mules continued breeding. They were later dubbed Jackalopes.
Jackalope cattle horses have large ears, a Longer tail*, and some have developed small horns*.
They have a shaggier coat in colder climates, with more fluff on the elbows & rump. As well as having a natural roan to their coat with a dark dorsal stripe that can get wider and cover the top of the rump and extend onto the tail. The roan can be dark on the shoulder, neck, and face; their legs will be unaffected.
They tend have a dark face mask with lighter points around the eyes, nose, and muzzle. The backs of the ears and the ear tips will have dark spots.
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They also can have a nature pangare, which paired with the gene causes it to be very pronounced. Some have even developed white ticking/flecking along the topline.
*Only dominant genes will have the tail and horn edit, Cross genes, meaning JK x nonJK, have horn nubs & normal tail.
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Dorsal Stripe, Ear Marks,
& Natural Roaning/ticking on coat
Dominant gene with full horns.
Palomino | showing Dark Roaning on Face and Light Roaning on Rear, as well as the White Flecks.
Cross gene with nubs & normal tail.
Chestnut Pangare | showing how the natural pangare can overact with the P gene as well as effect the natural roan in the coat. The "dark roan" can sometimes be rather dark.
Javalina - nJv/JvJv
Latigo - nL/LL
Primitive Dun - nM/MM
Rake - nR/RR
Tizon - nTn/TnTn
Wendigo - nW/WW
