>>> Y'know Karen, I want to join this list. I'm always up for a good laugh...
HA! Another thing they do is decide with 100% certainty that a given foal CAN'T be dun (or gray or whatever) simply by looking up his parents colors as registered on his pedigree. Ok, fine... except how many Icelandic's are registered the wrong color...? Runa is registered chestnut, but I'm almost positive she's red dun. But she "can't" be dun because she doesn't have a dun parent...but Ive seen pics of her mom who appears to me to be the same shade of red dun. Anneliese has a silver dapple bay mare who somehow got registered as a PINTO! She tried to get it changed, but it was taking a lot of effort - don't know if she ever did. Often a foal doesn't show his true color for a year or longer. How many grays are registered black or some other color? I have at least four horses that I question their color registration - and who cares? They are what they are, not what's on the paper. And, while I'm feeling really bold, I'll go ahead and say something... I have two Icelandic horses, both geldings, that I seriously question that the parents are shown correctly on their papers. I COULD have DNA pulled I guess, but they are geldings and we love them for what they are, not for who their papers SAY they are. It doesn't really matter to us since they are geldings and can't be bred... but it does make you wonder how often inbreeding takes place unintentionally. And it kind of makes the color arguments even more inane, if you consider there are cases when we may not really know who the parents are. Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
