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VIDEOS OF INTEREST TO MUSTANG & BURRO ADOPTERS:
Kitty Lauman:
From Wild to Willing: Using the Bamboo Pole to Gentle Mustangs
More from Lauman Training available now!DVD or VHS
(2-DVD or 2-VHS set) almost 3 hours of instruction! $49.95 plus $5 shipping/handling = $54.95 total 
Lesley Neuman:
The First Touch
Gentling Your Mustang
$45.00
Lesley works with 3 wild horses at a BLM adoption, and very clearly explains what is happening, what she is doing, & what she sees in each horse as it progresses. Study this video and you can learn "pressure and release" gentling techniques to gentle your own new mustang! 
Help for Burro adopters!
Crystal Ward
Donkey Training
All the basics of gentling, handling, and training. A MUST for new burro adopters! Good for domestic donkeys, too! Can't do Paypal?
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| | The Reds: Chestnut & Sorrel
 Many registries try to separate sorrel and chestnut, but genetically they are the same, varying only according to other modifiers (like sootiness or pangare). Red (Chestnut and Sorrel) includes all red to red-brown horses with non black "points" (manes, tails, and lower legs) which may vary from almost black to almost white. UC Davis says both sorrel and chestnut are confusing terms that ought to simply be replaced with "Red."
RED is totally recessive. Sorrel/Chestnut horses are homozygous recessive. They do not have any other color genes, no matter what the parents may have been. (The exception is "A" Agouti - which does not affect the appearance of red horses, but may be carried and passed on to offspring.)
For a Complete discussion of RED see Equine Color's Red Page. | CHESTNUT and SORREL are both REDS, and the terms are often used interchangeably. Some specific breed prefer the use of the term "chestnut" and others use "sorrel." Still others use "sorrel" for the lighter shades and "chestnut" for the darker ones. 
PMU Mare & Foal
Interesting chestnut mustang with silver grey mane and tail. The genetics of point colors are not well studied or understood as of yet. | 
 
Red BLM wild horses |
SORREL
also refers to
"Belgian Sorrel"
which is a specific pattern of red or splotchy/roanish ("mealy factor") red body with light mane and tail and light lower legs, found typically in Belgians, and caused by the Pangare gene. | 
My husband, Michael's old team of Belgians from back in the 1970's and 1980's (They're now in Horse Heaven) | LIVER CHESTNUTLiver Chestnut is a red-based color pattern that closely mimics Bay, Black, and Silver. Liver Chestnut horses are dark red to almost black in body color, with dark manes and tails. Their legs may be the same color as their bodies, or they may be darker, again mimicking Bay. If you see a Bay-like horse whose points are dark but not quite black, or a Bay-like horse with black mane and tail but legs that are not black, that is a Liver Chestnut. 
Liver Chestnut | 
Dark Liver Chestnut horse from http://www.merrillcreekranch.com | | So-called " Flaxen-Maned Liver Chestnut" horses are usually actually Silver Dapples. | | | "Flaxen Chestnut" horses may also be black-based Silver Dapples rather than true chestnuts: | 
True Flaxen Chestnut | 
Silver Dapples pony |
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RED base color, when acted upon by the various genetic modifiers, create the following colors: Palomino, Cremello, Red Roan and Red Dun. 
Up | Base Coat: Red | Base Coat: Black Up A Quick Overview of Horse Genetics | Horse Color Genetics Charts 2 | Equine Base Colors | Dominant Horse Color Genes | The Dilution Genes | Recessive Color Genes |
