Buckskin is the color of horsehair hair, referring to a color that resembles a tan tint. A similar color in some dog breeds is also called deer skin. Horses have a brown or gold coat with black dots (mane, tail, and lower leg). Reindeer skin occurs as a result of cream dilution genes that work on horse bay. Therefore, deer skin has an extension, or "base black coat" (E) gene, the gene agouti gene (A) (see bay for more about the agouti gene), which limits the base layer to dots, and one copy cream genes (CCr), which brighten the red/brown color from the mantle of the bay to the tan/gold.
Buckskins should not be confused with colored horses, which have a dilution gene and not a cream gene. Duns always have primitive signs (striped stripes, dorsal lines, zebra lines on the feet, webbing). However, perhaps a horse carries both the dilution genes; this is called "buckskin duns" or sometimes "dunskins." Also, the bay horse without the genes may have a faint dorsal line, which sometimes becomes dark in the skin of a deer without any genes present. An additional primitive stripe outside the dorsal line is a sure sign of the gene.
A buckskin horse can occur in a number of different breeds. At least one parent should carry the cream genes, and not all offspring do it. Since 1963, the American Skin Registry Association (ABRA) has been tracking these feathered horses, and although Buckskin is sometimes classified as color offspring, since its genetic makeup depends on having one instead of two copies of the allele dilution, the color of the feather is never of a nature consistent breeding.
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See also
- Cream gene
- White horsehair
- Combine the mantle color genetics
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References
- "Horse coat color test" from UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Lab
- "Introduction to Coat Color Genetics" from Animal Genetics Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis. Website accessed January 12, 2008
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