What would you get if you bred a buckskin to a palomino?

Answer 1

A buckskin horse carries three important colour genes: the black gene, the agouti gene (which restricts the colour to the points, creating bay) and one dilution gene (changing bay to buckskin).

If both the parents are buckskin, the foal is guaranteed to inherit the agouti gene - so it must be bay, buckskin or perlino, which are the agouti colours.

It has a 25% chance of not inheriting the dilution gene from either parent. This would produce a bay foal. There is a 50% chance that the foal will inherit the dilution gene from one parent, but not the other - in this case, the foal will be buckskin. The other 25% chance is that the foal inherits the dilution gene from both parents, producing a double dilute. A double dilute over agouti would result in a perlino foal.

Answer 2

Both bay and buckskin are bay-based colours, but the buckskin adds a dilution cream gene that dilutes the dark chestnut of the bay horse's body, to light. It does not dilute black points however. There may be other hidden color genes in either parent that may influence the foal's color.

Chestnut or black-based colours are also possible, as horses carry two color genes, and a bay horse requires both chestnut and black colors, and at least one agouti gene to restrict the black to the horse's points. Bay sire and dam can carry either one or two restricting agouti's each. There are also many potential color results depending upon the "hidden" genetics of the parents the foal may inherit. If the agouti gene isn't inherited from either parent, the offspring could be chestnut or black. If a black, chestnut and at least one restricting agouti is inherited, the foal will be a bay.

These are very basic principles and may vary if the sire and dam have other hidden color genetics.

The only modifier you've mentioned is the cream gene. The buckskin horse has one, and the bay horse has none. Therefore the foal will have either one cream gene, or no cream gene. The odds are a 50% chance of getting a non-cream/dilute, and a 50% chance of a cream dilute such as buckskin, smokey black or palomino, etc, depending upon the genetics the parents passed on to the foal.

Color is fun, but remember that there is no bad/wrong color horse. Horses should always be bred for optimal health and performance, and not color alone.

Answer 3

they are both single dillutes, more than likely you will end up with a palomino as it has a stronger dillute pattern, but could end up buckskin as well.... in rare cases you could end up with a chestnut or bay, but usually when two dillutes are bred together, you end up with a dillute

Answer 4

A buckskin with roaning

Or..

If your defintion of a blue roan is a black horse with the roan gene then the

roan could be aaEERnrn or aaEeRnrn or aaEeRnRn or aaEERnRN

The buckskin could be AAEECrcr, AaEECrcr, AAEeCrcr or AaEeCrcr (not adding At to the mix to further complicate things here)

So you could potentially get a bay, buckskin, smokey black, chestnut, palomino

or black and any color could also be roan depending on the genetics of the

parents.

The chance of a Cr dilute foal is 50% (palomino, buckskin, smokey black)

The chance of a roan foal is 50% if the roan is heterozygous for the Rn gene.

With this combination there is a 25% chance of a foal that is both Cr dilute and

roan.

Answer 5

Without knowing if either parent has a greying gene or is either homozygous or heterozygous the exact color cannot be certain, but these are the percentages from a site that provides a horse color calculator.

17.58% chance of either ; Buckskin Roan, Buckskin, Bay Roan, Bay.

5.86% chance of either; Smoky blue roan, Smoky Black, blue Roan, Black.

1.56% chance of either; Palomino Roan, Palomino, Chestnut Roan, Chestnut.

Answer 6

The coloring of the parents has nothing to do with the outcome of the foal. Unless you find a Homozygous buckskin stallion, then the possibility of the foal coming out buckskin are slim.