#ask.rix

Thanks, I'm glad someone shares the excitement with me. It's one of the reasons why I'm posting them :)

Fair on the not knowing the coat colours, but it's really just learning as you work with it. I knew some of the names of coats from reading books or playing Howrse but I only started learning genetics and how it works when I started playing and breeding in Horse Reality.

Just today when doing the foal post, I had one with Cr Ch and D at once and I had to pull up the wiki to know what to call that lol, so even I'm still learning as well

Thank you! It means a lot to me.

There are some I can look at and know right away, but then I look at the more complicated colors and my brain shuts down lol.

Mostly this lovely lady and these two gentlemen.

Some colours are only distinguishable through testing, like black x smoky black, perlino x cremello x smoky cream, and I'm sure there's more.

Some are so similar there is only slight difference that you might or might not ever see, while some are similar, but you will start seeing the difference with experience. You can also try looking for some traits that are specific for a gene, like the markings of dun or darker legs and mouth on bays

Without looking at the guide, with a few-hours-old memory of the guide and my experience of seeing how the coats are drawn in this game I would guess:

1: darker legs so my guess is bay based, maybe prl/prl and/or champagne, maybe also additional silver for the pale mane+tail (if the horse is bay or black). maybe I would add dun, but I can't see a dorsal line(?)

2: again, slightly darker legs so bay based, maybe just champagne? Or maybe buckskin + champagne?

3: I have a very similar horse (maybe even the same lol), so I believe it's either cr/cr or cr/prl with champagne, but I don't see anything to identify the base.