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This sounds unlikely to me.
A chestnut horse does not have any dilution genes in its coat. A chestnut with one dilution gene is a palomino, and with two dilution genes is a cremello.
A bay horse (non dilute) with one dilution gene produces a buckskin, and a second dilution gene produces a perlino.
If you breed together a non-dilute horse and a double dilute, you will always get the horse with one dilution gene. So if you breed a cremello to a chestnut you will always get a palomino, and if you breed a bay to a perlino you will always get a buckskin. As far as I know, if you breed a chestnut to a perlino or a bay to a cremello you will have a 50/50 chance of palomino or buckskin.
When you breed a chestnut and a buckskin one dilution gene is in play, from the mother who has it. The baby may inherit it or not. If the foal inherits the dilute gene it will be a buckskin or a palomino. If it does not inherit the dilution gene it will be chestnut or bay. In the diagram below, D is a non-dilute gene, while the lowercase d is a dilute.
MOTHER - buckskin Dd
FATHER - chestnut DD
FOAL: Possible combinations
DD (First gene from each parent), DD (First gene from mother, second gene from father), Dd (Second gene from mother, first gene from father), Dd (Second gene from each parent)
So this combination has a 50/50 chance of producing a dilute or a non-dilute.
The foal has a 25% chance of being each of these colours: Chestnut, bay, palomino, buckskin.
You must account for the variation in the shade of the coat also. If you get a very pale palomino, this can be similar in appearance to a very light grey horse. However, its genetics tell the real story. A grey horse is a single dilution gene on a black horse, with a double dilute of black being a colour known as 'smokey cream' which is indistinguishable from cremello and perlino. Many people think smokey cream, cremello and perlino horses are albino, but the true albino gene is fatal, with the foal aborting, being stillborn or dying a few days after birth.
If you bred your buckskin mare to a black stallion, you may get a grey baby, but there would only be a 25% chance once again, the foal could be bay, buckskin, black or grey. If you bred to a grey stallion, two dilution genes come into play and the foal would have a 50% chance of being either grey or buckskin, 25% of being black or bay, and 25% of being smokey cream or perlino. (Replace coat colours for breeding a buckskin to a palomino).
Answer 2:Grey is a dominant gene so one parent would have to be grey...no grey no possibility of a grey foal.
Keep in mind that the grey color is independent of the base coat colors...a grey foal generally has anywhere from a few to many white hairs in it's coat at birth
if it has the grey gene, barring that they show up around the eyes and or base of the ears when the foal begins to shed it's foal coat.
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Can a chestnut Arabian mare bred to a black Arabian stallion produce a grey foal?
it is not possible to have a grey horse unless one of the parents is grey. they must have it to thow it.
Can a buckskin mare and a chestnut stallion produce a buckskin foal?
Usually the darker color will be dominant in horses. BUT... sometimes the horses genes will override this color dominance. It is a sort of wait and see with horses. It all depends on the genes that the parents carry. If there is a bay (brown with black mane/tail/legs) in either the mother or the father's genes, it is possible to produce a buckskin. The special thing about palominos is that the cream gene (that makes them that gorgeous gold colour) is a dominant gene. That means you only need one copy of that gene for it to influence the outcome of the offspring. Think of it like a dilution. A chestnut horse bred to a cream/cremello or (anything carrying the cream gene) will most likely produce a palomino foal. A bay bred to cream gene carrier will most likely produce a buckskin. A black bred to a cream gene carrier will most likely produce a smoky black. However, with all these cases, there are exceptions. If the mother or the father has a bay parent or grandparent, or the father has a buckskin parent or grandparent (because, remember, the cream gene is dominant, so if the mother isn't palomino/buckskin/smoky black, she won't have the crema gene in her lineage), and remnants of those genes have been carried forward into the mare or stallion, there is a chance you'll have a buckskin foal. Yes, it is very confusing ^^ This is a really good site to check out what colour foal you'll get from what colour parents: http://www.animalgenetics.us/CCalculator1.asp
What color horse will you get with a buckskin bred to a bay?
you will get almost any colour because your horses colour is not determined by the colour of it' s parents. you can have two chestnut horses that breed to make a bay foal. unless the horse is bred to be a specific colour, like the Cleavland Bay breed. the foals colour all depends on its genetic material.
Will heifer-calf twins be able to get bred?
Yes, both twins will be able to get bred and produce offspring.
If you bred a palomino mare to a chestnut stallion what color foal would you get?
Usually the darker color will dominate. But sometimes the genes of the parents can overpower the darker color. You really can not be sure. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It really depends on whether the black horse is homozygous (EE) or heterozygous (Ee). Horses are born with a base color from each parent. E represents black and e represents red. Black is dominate over red. If you get two red genes (ee) you always end up with a chestnut. If you get one or two black genes (Ee/EE) you end up with a black horse as long as you don't have agouti (A-Bay). So if you have a black horse with Ee bred to a chestnut horse ee, you have a 50/50 chance of getting a chestnut. If you breed a black horse with EE to a chestnut horse ee, you have a 100% chance of a black horse because they black (E) gene is dominate. Hope that clarifies it :) Fuangel29
Can a black mare bred to a buckskin produce a buckskin baby?
Yes a black and a buckskin can produce a buckskin according to the extension and agouti statues of each parent.
Can a white mare bred to a buckskin produce a buckskin baby?
Yes, if "white" means gray...there would be a 50% chance of any foal produced having the gray gene. Whether the foal will be chestnut, buckskin, bay or palomino will hinge on the genetics of the mare. If "white" means maximum expression sabino...then there is a white component that is independant of the possible colors. Again the foal could be chestnut, buckskin, palomino or bay will hinge on the genetics of the mare.
Can a red roan mare bred to a buck skin stallion produce a buckskin foal?
Yes.
Is a buckskin a horse breed or a color?
There's no way to guarantee that any two horses will produce a buckskin, to the best of my knowledge. To produce a buckskin, however, at least one parent must carry the cream gene. The cream gene is responsible for lightening a bay horse into buckskin, and it is also what causes palomino and other colors. If you breed two smokey black (black with one cream gene) horses, you cannot get a buckskin. Likewise, if you breed two palomino horses, or one palomino and one chestnut, you will not get a buckskin.
What do you get when you cross two strawberry roan Australian ponies?
Two roans bred together will produce 75% roan foals. Since both these horses are chestnut all foals will be chestnut.
What all do cows produce?
If bred, milk and baby calves.
Can you breed a cremello horse to a palomino or buckskin horse?
You can certainly get an offspring if any mare and any stud breed when the mare is ready and of course both are fertile. If the cremello was bred with a palomino, a cremello foal would most likely be produced, thanks to the double dilution genes. If bred to a buckskin, then a perlino foal would be the resulting offspring.
Can a chestnut Arabian mare bred to a black Arabian stallion produce a grey foal?
it is not possible to have a grey horse unless one of the parents is grey. they must have it to thow it.
Can a buckskin mare and a chestnut stallion produce a buckskin foal?
Usually the darker color will be dominant in horses. BUT... sometimes the horses genes will override this color dominance. It is a sort of wait and see with horses. It all depends on the genes that the parents carry. If there is a bay (brown with black mane/tail/legs) in either the mother or the father's genes, it is possible to produce a buckskin. The special thing about palominos is that the cream gene (that makes them that gorgeous gold colour) is a dominant gene. That means you only need one copy of that gene for it to influence the outcome of the offspring. Think of it like a dilution. A chestnut horse bred to a cream/cremello or (anything carrying the cream gene) will most likely produce a palomino foal. A bay bred to cream gene carrier will most likely produce a buckskin. A black bred to a cream gene carrier will most likely produce a smoky black. However, with all these cases, there are exceptions. If the mother or the father has a bay parent or grandparent, or the father has a buckskin parent or grandparent (because, remember, the cream gene is dominant, so if the mother isn't palomino/buckskin/smoky black, she won't have the crema gene in her lineage), and remnants of those genes have been carried forward into the mare or stallion, there is a chance you'll have a buckskin foal. Yes, it is very confusing ^^ This is a really good site to check out what colour foal you'll get from what colour parents: http://www.animalgenetics.us/CCalculator1.asp
What color horse will you get with a buckskin bred to a bay?
you will get almost any colour because your horses colour is not determined by the colour of it' s parents. you can have two chestnut horses that breed to make a bay foal. unless the horse is bred to be a specific colour, like the Cleavland Bay breed. the foals colour all depends on its genetic material.
What would you get if you bred a buckskin to a palomino?
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.
Is it true that when a palomino is breed to a palomino you get a cremmelo?
Sometimes it is true that breeding two palominos will result in a cremello foal. When bred together, two palominos can produce: 25% Cremello 25% Palomino 50% Chestnut
