What's the point of....

Having a solid colored paint if they are bred for color in the first place? Lol.

Ive often wondered that myself

Curiousity has just got me this week! :)

Did someone just decide, "This is a solid Paint." or something? They don't had solid Appaloosas. Lol. Well Few Spot but I think that was an accident. Lol.

Dunno. Maybe they just have one or two charcteristics that make them paints. I don't know much about them though so its hard to comment

When a paint baby is born, it may or may not SHOW the color gene, but it will carry it (I believe), making it possible for it to produce a colored paint. I don't think people breeding for paints, necessarily hope for a solid paint (not that they would love it any less :) ), but they may end up with one. Even if it is born solid though, it is registered a paint because it has paint lines in either mom, dad, or both. That was as simply as I could put it...:)

Also, if you breed:

Paint w/color X paint w/color, you have 75% chance of paint baby
Homozygous paint X other horse solid or colored, you have 100%
Paint w/color X other breed (not paint) 50% chance of color
Paint w/color X solid paint, 75% color.......

.....I think that is the case, but someone can correct me if I am wrong...It may be a bit more complex. :)

My best guess was that they wanted to distingush between "colored" paints and "solid" paints so they could breed for color in following generations; I.e. The foal has to have a certain amount of white to be considered a "colored" foal, otherwise it's labeled as a "breeding stock" or "solid" paint. Breeding 2 colored paints together does not guarantee a colored foal, and that solid foal has less of a chance to throw color than a colored foal.. following, or have I lost you??
Anyways, breeding stock paints can't compete in all Paint shows, as they reserve most of those for colored paints - which I think is a bit "colorist" if you ask me!
Anyways, I think that labelling "breeding stock" versus "colored" is just a way of putting a label on the horse so people will be more inclined to breed colored paints and weed out the BS ones. (BS=breeding stock.. not... you know.)
I fell in love with this one BS paint foal, he was black with 4 high white stockings and a balze - GORGEOUS - but ended up not buying him because, although he was a registered PAINT, he was registered "BREEDING STOCK" ... so not as valuable... especilly if I had kept him a stallion (which I might have.. like I said.. he was gorgeous.)
Anyways, that's my stab in the dark.

*ahem* for those of you not wanting to read my novel, as well as sum my novel up:

Solid paints could be viewed as an "unwanted" byproduct of a non-homozygous paint. Two paints bred together do not guarantee a colored paint, so a solid, BS paint is what you get instead!


There. I think I made sense that time?

Because you can't be completely 100% sure that a horse will throw great color, so thus solids get bred, sold, showed because not all people judge a horse by it's color. There just as good as paints, and since they are just as whole of a paint as a colored one is the paint association cannot prevent them from showing so they just add solid classes in the APHA.

Ok there are overo paints, tabino paints ,sabino paints and solid paints but the solid paint are registered as breeding stock yes because they still can throw off a paint