Exactly right, they can't poop and die soon after born.
It's a gene that overos carry and when 2 overos with the lethal white gene are bred, you have a very good chance of getting a lethal white foal. You can test for the gene, luckily.
I don't mean to be a smarty pants on this subject, it's just that paint horses are my "thing". I adore them and read everything I can get my hands on about them.
This is really interesting given the amount of paint breeders I know, and I've never heard it talked about.
Becky
Just curious. Are overos harder to get, rarer then tobiano's? Seems to me I see more tobys then overo's. But that may just be me. It may also be I'm messing up on catogorizing them too:)
Becky
Is it true that if you have a paint with 'ermine spots' on her, it's an indication that she carries the 'paint gene' herself, and will throw color?(no matter WHAT Daddy is?)