Brindled Miniature Gypsies || Breed Information

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Brindled Miniature Gypsies (BMGs)

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Breed Attributes:
Height - between 24 inches and 36 inches at the shoulder (6 and 9hh)
Weight - averages between 75 and 150 pounds

- Short tails and feathering are a required breed characteristic, though long tailed mutations do happen, most commonly in females
- Wide, muscular chest and, crested thick neck
- Almost roman-nosed; outward dished face
- Short back/topline
- Large hindquarters
- Stockily built, can easily pull twice their own weight
- Commonly used as driving horses, and they do well in teams of up to 8 ponies in some cases. More often in pairs or sets of 4.

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Coloration Notes:

All ponies have brindle of some kind.
Solids are common, but dont happen too often
Somatics are seen, but happen uncommonly.
Chimerics happen slightly more than usual to these small ponies because of their unstable fertility, due to their size. Mares are usually unable to carry twins to term, causing one twin to absorb the other.
Sabino and Splash are the most common marking types, followed by slipped tobiano.
Appaloosa is hardly seen in the breed, and is very rare.
Flaxen is common in this breed and most ponies carry at least 1 copy of the flaxen gene.



Rarity Scale:

Eye Colors:
Very Common- greens
Common- blues and hazles
Uncommon- browns
Rare- oranges and yellows, white
Very Rare- reds, purples, pinks, and black


Base Colors:
Very Common- bays, chestnuts, black, buckskin
Common- palominos, duns, smokey black, dunalino
Uncommon- silver black/bay, grullo, double cream, chimeric
Rare- champagne, single pearl
Very Rare- cream champagnes, roans, double pearl

Extra Genes:
Very Common- brindle, flaxen, sooty, dapples, grey, bloodmarks/bloody shoulder
Common- reverse brindle, silver, chubari spots, birdcatchers, dun, roan
Uncommon- cream/double cream, pangare, rabicano, grease spots, ermine spots
Rare- pearl, small somatic mutation, albinism
Very Rare- double pearl, large somatic mutation, melanism

Chimeric Rarity:
Uncommon- 1 or 2 coats with splash, sabino or tobiano ; very common-common genetics only
Rare- uncommon-rare genetics, 1 coat with somatic or manchado
Very Rare- 3+ coats; rare-very rare genetics, reverse markings, manchado, or somatic mutations

Markings:
Very Common- splash, minimal sabino, slipped/hidden tobiano
Common- tobiano, sabino white/max sabino, solid
Uncommon- overo, tovero, dominant white
Rare- manchado, inverted splash/sabino
Very Rare- other inverted markings, appaloosa

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Two Toned Brindle - 20% (two toned can only show if they are homozygous dominant for brindle (+B+B); parent does not need to have two tone for it to pass)
Birdcatchers and Chubari Spots - 40%
Dapples - 60% chance
Bloody Shoulder - 30% (only when grey is present; parent does not have to have bloody shoulder for it to pass)
Somatic Mutation - 20% (1 parent must have it for it to pass; 30% chance if both parents have somatic)
Chimeric - 25% chance (1 parent must have it for it to pass; 30% chance if both parents have chim.)
Grease spots or Ermine Spots - 20% chance (1 parent must have them to pass; 25% chance if both parents have it)
Albino or Melanism - 10% chance; 15% if both parents have it
Dom white - 20% chance; 25% if both parents have it