Schleich 75th anniversary

That's funny but I found some of these schleich muppets in mountain cottage last winter. They are in bad condition so I didn't take them home. But You can see some pictures:

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The foal figure is so tiny I wonder if they are going to make MINIs again? It does have very nice detail. ~S

Great book Willy. Thanks for the sneak peak. I will have to get 1 of these.

Oh, Willy, could you scan the whole book and post it here? :) I'd be extremely grateful.

I just came up with a new explanation to the foal's size. What if it's a Falabella foal, not Shetland Pony??

Siobhan wrote:

I just came up with a new explanation to the foal's size. What if it's a Falabella foal, not Shetland Pony??

you might be right there

HKHollinstone wrote:

Siobhan wrote:

I just came up with a new explanation to the foal's size. What if it's a Falabella foal, not Shetland Pony??

you might be right there

I will love that

Kiryuha wrote:

Oh, Willy, could you scan the whole book and post it here? :) I'd be extremely grateful.

I think there is a copyrite on the book. The company might get upset if it was scanned and posted. Wouldn't want to have anyone get in trouble.... ~S

Suebeedo wrote:

Kiryuha wrote:

Oh, Willy, could you scan the whole book and post it here? :) I'd be extremely grateful.

I think there is a copyrite on the book. The company might get upset if it was scanned and posted. Wouldn't want to have anyone get in trouble.... ~S

I'm not sure that book copyrights cover forums - it's not an open public site.

Kyrill: Yes, that might be, and probally is so, but i am not afraid of that, i can remove the pics in a second if the insist on that.
But i think, it is good advertising for them, as some of us bought this book, just because it was on the forum here!
Sorry, i cannot scan it, as i don't own a scanner(yet), and then you are talking about copyright! Isn't it?!

Siobhan: That could be a good guess, if the foal was a Falabella foal indeed, but the colours do not match the adult...
By the way, albino's can occur in any mammal, so Shetlanders too!

They will fly out of their storage-rooms!

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By the way, i know already two persons who have at least 4 of those coupons...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

By the way, i know already trwo persons who have at least 4 of those coupons...

The next person in the battle.

I hope we all get the complete 4 figures, ore we can trade under us.

As i said before, there will be more persons in this battle...

Trade is always good to help eachother, although i already made some promises with another person, and this person with me about this, and maybe we found a backdoor too...

Well yeah Shetlands can be albinos but they're not "wanted" (like in most other horse breeds) so albinos can't be used for breeding, for example. So albino shetland ponies are very rare. And very strictly speaking, horses are never albinos because they don't have such a gene similar to e.g. mice, and they don't have red eyes but blue. A horse with blue eyes, white coat and pink skin would be called dominant white, cremello or something else, depending on the gene that causes the colour :)
What do you mean by saying that the colours don't match the adult?

I tried to sort this out on the internet, but the voices are not speaking the same everywhere.
But i saw a lot of times, what you told me here before, so your explanation could be true actually...
I never thought about this before, as i aspected that actually every mammal could be an albino, in the sense of having colour-less eyes too, so red...

I ment that the Falabella is a spotted one, an Appaloosa(black and white) if you want, the new foal is a pinto(red/brown-white)...
Of course this could be, but which mixed genes then...

Many things are possible when it comes to the colour of a foal, since their colour doesn't that much depend on what colour their parents are. There is one exception though, with chestnuts: a chestnut mare and a chestnut stallion will certainly make a chestnut foal. But as for the falabella foal (if it is a falabella foal) I think its father could be appaloosa since appaloosa and pinto genes are fairly similar.
Sorry everyone about the horses' colour genetics -lecture, I've just been doing some research on the subject and I find it very interesting!

Maybe Schleich is trying another scale for horses.
CollectA 2009 and 2010 horses are abolutly fantastic but there are man Schleich horses collectors that will continuing to buy Schleich and not the best horses
Never mind!

Siobhan wrote:

Many things are possible when it comes to the colour of a foal, since their colour doesn't that much depend on what colour their parents are. There is one exception though, with chestnuts: a chestnut mare and a chestnut stallion will certainly make a chestnut foal. But as for the falabella foal (if it is a falabella foal) I think its father could be appaloosa since appaloosa and pinto genes are fairly similar.
Sorry everyone about the horses' colour genetics -lecture, I've just been doing some research on the subject and I find it very interesting!

Maybe they will bring out a pinto Falabella mare to go with the foal. It's a bit boring of schleich to (if it is what we've said) have a pinto colour again, just like the shetlands.

That would be boring indeed, especially since falabellas can be of nearly any colour...

Yes, i agree with you on the colour-possibilities Siobhan.
I think most of us had some of this stuff in biology-lessons in high-school...
The Mendel Theories..
The case with the chestnuts, will have to do with the dominance of the colour, like darker colours are dominant in the human race.
But this doesn't mean, that a minor ot reccesive factor won't show up somewhere, and sometimes as we could see in the white lion genes.
Recently there were one-egg twins born in the UK, one baby was dark coloured, the other one was what we would call Kaukasian coloured.
But both parents were Afro-English dark coloured people...
So the reccesiv gene came up from the past, and even in identic(!)twins!
So everything has to do with those dominant genes, and some genes are in the female of the species, and some of them in the males...
This can be a very complicated matter, but doesn't need to, if you know a little bit about them...
And even then, there are so much exceptions like in horses, that won't give many real albino's as it seems...

This reminds me of the set-up for Mike Leigh's fantastic family drama "Secrets and Lies" in which a young black woman in England, after her adoptive mother's death, is seized by the need to discover the identity of her birth mother. Great film, I highly recommend it to everyone.

Hi Friends,

today i received the first animals from the special edition to 75th anniversary of Schleich.

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Both animals i have double. If someone has one of the other missing animals of this serie double and is interested to trade, please send a PM.

Congratulations Torben

Congratulation Torben