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The mutant gene that makes horses white
timesonline.co.uk — White horses, such as racing ’s Desert Orchid or the Lone Ranger’s Silver, are actually mutants whose defective DNA carries a gene that accelerates ageing and rapidly turns their coats grey, scientist have discovered...
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- Shogi, on 07/20/2008, -1/+19Every single living species today is a successful mutation for one reason or another. Interesting that humans saved the white horse.
- Rascal373, on 07/20/2008, -10/+3NO TRUE!!!
god didnt bake in the oven for long, thus white horses came to be.- Myztry, on 07/20/2008, -3/+4Dark coloured people have fair coloured palms.
It's because God stacks them one on top of the other before spray painting...
- Myztry, on 07/20/2008, -3/+4Dark coloured people have fair coloured palms.
- bapplebo, on 07/20/2008, -1/+16Are you saying that Gandalf's horse can secretly become a tentacle monster?
- IG64, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2Sounds sexy.
- Treoinmypocket, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1"Natch
- liah, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1No, because he's not white (not that that's the only reason.) He's a grey. The only white horses have pink skin-- you can tell by looking at their noses and the skin around their eyes.
Gandalf's horse has black skin, so he is grey.
- Battlecry, on 07/20/2008, -1/+3What color was George Washington's white horse?
- bapplebo, on 07/20/2008, -1/+3Teal.
- unknownohm, on 07/20/2008, -1/+3how much is a bottle of glue made from a white horse???
- Treoinmypocket, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4incedibly...cheaper than that of non-white horses. You have to add white to those in the glue making process....
- juliohm, on 07/20/2008, -0/+16how much longer till they figure out how to transform them into unicorns?
- Gemfinder, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1Someone did. You're going to be surprised, too: it's a mutant goat, not a horse. If you look at old drawings of unicorns, they're a lot closer to deer, antelope and goats than they are to horses.
Google "Lancelot," "Galahad," "The True Unicorn" and "Church of All Worlds" if you want to see pics.
- Gemfinder, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1Someone did. You're going to be surprised, too: it's a mutant goat, not a horse. If you look at old drawings of unicorns, they're a lot closer to deer, antelope and goats than they are to horses.
- jlebrech, on 07/20/2008, -2/+2don't they say black don't crack? so if it applied to humans would mean that white ages faster?
- Myztry, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3Except whites aren't white, and blacks aren't black.
Humans would look really strange if we were actually coloured like chess pieces...
- Myztry, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3Except whites aren't white, and blacks aren't black.
- DangerCollie, on 07/20/2008, -4/+7I for one welcome our new mutant horse overlords.
- manzplan, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6Desert Orchid is technically NOT "WHITE" although the Lone Rangers horse indeed was (He was a rare white horse, an albino - he was BORN that way.
Desert Orchid is GRAY, born a SOLID color and turning grey over time and the gene says.
there is a difference between a white horse and a grey one..
whites are BORN white
greys are BORN solid color and turn "whiter" as they age, at different rates
(written my Marks' wife, who went to horse college for 2 years. and owns horses)- banana234, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3Horses that look white but that have black skin are grey. Horses that have pink skin are "white" horses. Greys are born dark and lighten up to look white as they get older in a process similar to human hair becoming grey.
As a grey horse owner I think it is pretty cool to learn that his color is from a mutated gene.
- banana234, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3Horses that look white but that have black skin are grey. Horses that have pink skin are "white" horses. Greys are born dark and lighten up to look white as they get older in a process similar to human hair becoming grey.
- Gemfinder, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2Grey horses, as many Andalusian owners know, are also very prone to developing melanoma. The grey gene is dominant; if you mate a grey horse to any other colour horse, the foal is likely to turn grey. You can tell whether a foal will grey if they have a "ring" of light hair around their eyes.
- AngeloUCF, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1Where are the freakin pictures?
- Yage2006, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2Grey is not White.
Get your ***** straight.
/Buried - Wolfgarden, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1What if you're colourblind????? AHHHH!
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