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This is called a "black liver" and it is caused by the horse having two copies of the Sooty genes and the Dp gene. Lots of people love these horses.

This horse does not have chinchilla. If you added chinchilla they would turn totaly white with red eyes. Is that the look you are going for?

If you remove a darkening gene this horse would be lighter but I advise against it if you want lots of liver foals.

Black livers are awesome for breeding. You're always guaranteed to pass the Sooty and the DP. If you breed them to a hom sooty plain Chestnut you get a het DP hom Sooty liver. If you breed them to a het DP hom Sooty liver, you have a 50% chance of another black liver. I use a lot of yellow papered mares in my breeding just because they have hom DP.

That horse is Really nice. I have so many chesnut drafts for sale.

Thanks @Khaos! That will help me tremendously.

It does especially on the livers. I hadn't seen it before.

Thank you!

I'm an fool for black livers! LOVE them, and that one is just plain gorgeous!

Also, just to add my 2 cents and because I saw it in the notes of your boy, adding s+ will definitely help make him look more red liver than black :) Not sure if you have already seen an example but here is a couple i found:


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Also Pangare + is on sale in the RGS right now and would make him look stunning as well!

S+ and P+

OCR C $ Black Prism

Just P+

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Hope this helps!