Lethal White paint foals

Sugar89 · 01-16-08, 06:39 PM

Did anyone wlse know about this?

Overo (a paint horse pattern) Lethal White Syndrome is a recessive gene that horses can carry. If a foal is born with two of these genes then they are all white, and their intestine isn't developed so they die after a few days. It's not just overos that carry it.

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horseplay · 01-17-08, 09:24 AM

I didn't know that. It's too bad. I really like paints and hope to breed my own someday so it's a good thing to know. Too bad it's fatal. What a shame.

purplefdu · 01-17-08, 06:39 PM

I have a friend whose family breeds paints so I got to learn quite a bit about it. Its simply genetics that allow the horses to be spotted and sometimes don't work out properly.

OnTheTelephone · 01-17-08, 11:59 PM

I was almost crying reading that article. I hadn't heard of it before, but it is just so sad. Oddly it made me think of my own human child at birth when I read it, rather than my horses, but it's just terrible.

It just shows what happens with too much interbreeding.

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01-17-08, 09:24 AM	#2 (permalink)
horseplay Member Join Date: 01-02-08 Posts: 50	I didn't know that. It's too bad. I really like paints and hope to breed my own someday so it's a good thing to know. Too bad it's fatal. What a shame.

01-17-08, 06:39 PM	#3 (permalink)
purplefdu Member Join Date: 08-12-07 Posts: 236	I have a friend whose family breeds paints so I got to learn quite a bit about it. Its simply genetics that allow the horses to be spotted and sometimes don't work out properly.

01-17-08, 11:59 PM	#4 (permalink)
OnTheTelephone Member Join Date: 01-01-08 Posts: 25	I was almost crying reading that article. I hadn't heard of it before, but it is just so sad. Oddly it made me think of my own human child at birth when I read it, rather than my horses, but it's just terrible. It just shows what happens with too much interbreeding.