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If you give a bay horse one cream gene what color will his coat turn into?
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What is a perlino?
Perlino is a cream gene that is responsible for a number of horse coat colors. Horses with a chestnut base coat color and the cream gene will become palomino if they carry one cream gene, and will be cremello if they carry a pair of the cream genes.
How did buckskin color on a horse come about?
A buckskin gets it's coloring from the cream gene (Cr), a bay horse with a Cr gene is a buckskin. A bay itself is a modification of the black coat color gene (Ee or EE) with the agouti gene (A), which limits the back color to the legs/tail/mane and allowing the red pigment (e) to show. The Cr gene lightens the red pigment into the well known buckskin color.
Where did buckskin come from?
If you mean Buckskin the horse color, then it came about through the cream dilution gene acting on a bay or black horse. The cream gene affects the body color of the horse giving it a 'washed out' appearance. In the single form cream will not typically affect the black coloring on a bay horse leaving the points dark, but will dilute the body color. In it's double form Cream will usually affect the black points as well.
What is the flaxen of the horse?
Flaxen is a recessive color gene. It is also used to describe a coat color such as a chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail.
Can you give a sentence with the word dun?
From Wikipedia: "The dun gene is a dilution gene that affects both red and black pigments in the coat color of a horse."
What is a smokey grulla horse?
A smokey grulla is a black horse with a dun gene, and a cream gene.
What is the rufus gene?
It is a coat color gene in animals that is responsible for the deep orange color as in tigers.
What gene is responsible for making a chestnut horse palomino?
Palomino is caused by a single allele of a dilution gene, called the cream gene, a variant on chestnut. For Howrse: Cream.
What are the differences between cremello color and grey in horses?
Cremello is a color dilute gene that changes the base coat color of a horse to a lighter shade in utero. Grey is a color modifier meaning it causes the base color of the horse to slowly lighten to a white color over time after the foal has been born.
What breed of horse are grullas or spelled grullo?
Grulla is a horse coat color that can occure in any breed. The dunn delution (horses with a dorsal strip) delutes or changes a horses original coat color. The dun gene turns a bay coat color into a yellowish coat color with black mane and tail with a dorsal stripe (Classic dunn). The dun delution lightens a sorrel body coat color but does not affect the color of the mane and tail (claybank dun) The dunn delution on a true black horse will produce a grulla (mousy grey color with black mane and tail. The dunn delution is not to be confused with the creme delution which delutes sorrels to palominos and bays to buckskins.
Can a horse with Ee and cream gene and silver gene and agouti look like a palomino?
Answer: The palomino color is a recessive gene, so it needs one from each parent. The best odds to get a palomino are breeding two together. Answer: Palomino is not recessive, but an incomplete dominant. Only ONE Creme gene (written as n/Cr) needs to be present in order for the horse to appear as palomino. If the horse had the creme gene from BOTH parents, it would not be a palomino at all, but an almost-white CREMELLO. This is written genetically as Cr/Cr (a creme gene from each parent). In fact breeding Palomino to Palomino gives EXACTLY the same chance of palomino as breeding Chestnut to Palomino - two chances out of four. Palomino x Palomino gives: 1 Cremello; 2 Palomino; 1 Chestnut/Sorrel. Chestnut x Palomino gives: 2 Palomino; 2 Chestnut/Sorrel Chestnut x Cremello gives: 4 out of 4 palominos, however: Cremellos can suffer from terrible sunburn and eye disorders. For humane reasons, therefore, it is often recommended that the Palomino x Chestnut formula be used for breeding palominos. (end of interruption) But a horse with E/e, Siver Gene, Cream Gene, Agouti can indeed have a Palomino-color, but is not a true Palomino. The black color is diluted by the Silver Gene, also by the Agouti Gene and Cream Gene, the horse will have a very light brown-gold color with blonde manes, just like a true Palomino. The more color modification genes a black horse (E/E or E/e) carries, the outcome will be an exception. From the outside one can not distinquish a horse like that from a true Palomino, only gene testing will give an answer, even so: the horse still carries a Cream Gene, just like a Polomino, but the horse basic color is not sorrel. This happens a lot. So normally a Palomino horse is e/e (sorrel) with a Cream Gene. But a horse with E/e, and Silver Gene, and Cream Gene And Agouti, will not be Smokey black, but will have a much lighter brownish, gold brown color like a Palomino, this because of the extra color modification genes the horse carries. Answer: A palomino is the result of a (1)cream gene acting on a sorrel/red (ee aa/Aa/AA) horse. 2 creams on sorrel/red horse result in a cremello. 1 cream on a bay horse results in a buckskin, 2 creams a perlino. The cream gene is not recessive. It is an incomplete dominant. Meaning that 1 copy of the gene lightens color some but 2 copies lightens color more. 2 palominos bred together will produce 25% sorrel/red 50% palomino 25% cremello offspring. The best way to produce palomino is to breed a cremello and a sorrel together. This will produce 100% palomino offspring. A horse that is Ee and has agouti is bay. If it has a cream gene it will lighten the horses coat and the resulting color is called buckskin. A silver gene only lightens black hair. It will lighten the mane, tail and legs SOME but usually not completely. It will look like a regular buckskin with "highlights." The mane a tail often get darker with age. It would take a person that has very little knowledge about coat colors to think the horse looked like a palomino. Answer: It could look like a palomino - since Silver (Z) could lighten the black mane and tail - but since silver does not lighten the coat as much as the mane and tail, the legs would be dark, like a red dun. That's how you could tell it's not a true palomino. I have found that the presence of TWO dilution genes can cause a double dilute effect, even though the genes are unrelated (dun, silver, champagne, creme, etc). I have a chestnut based Silver/Champagne that appears as a cremello without the blue eyes She has no creme gene at all.
How long have palomino horse been around?
Palomino is a color, not a breed. Therefore the palomino color came about whenever the cream gene mutated and occured in horses. When this occured is still not 100% known. It is known however that the Turkoman (Akhal-Teke) horse carried the cream gene, thus enabling palomino colored foals to be born and that breed has been in existance for over 3013 years.
