There are several different possibilities, depending on the genetic makeup of the parents.
The base possibilities are:
chestnut
bay
black
The dilute gene (that makes the mare a buckskin) will give you:
palomino
buckskin
smoky black
The roan gene (that makes the sire roan) will give you:
red roan
bay roan
blue roan
If both genes are passed on, you get:
palomino roan
buckskin roan
smoky black roan
There is no difinite way to tell, but it could end up being a chestnut overo foal. They foal could also get it from it's distance dam's or sire's (great grandsire, grandsire, great granddam, granddam).
Its called a dam, the father is called a sire.
Mare
well horses arent like people usually. they tend to be one color for example the dad could be black and the mom could be buckskin so the horse probably wont be a mixture it will either be black or buckskin. NOT MIXED
a dam Are you doing the crossword in Woman's Weekly, by any chance? Joëlle
You have about 50:50 odds.
Past colours in her family will have no say in her own offspring's colour. My buckskin mare has had her buckskin granddam and sire be bred to cremellos and produce palomino foals, so I thought she would too but instead I got a perlino, and the other three times I bred her to differant cremello stallions and yet again I got 2 perlinos and a buckskin. (Here the buckskin mare's sire and dam must be Ee at the extention site. Based on the results gotten by breedings of their daughter, there is a very high probability that she is EE at the extension site hence no production of palomino.) So no, you will not get a blue roan unless you specifically breed her to a heterozygous blue roan with a silver gene and make sure your mare is homozygous bay roan who has the silver gene as well but also has her black gene dominant over her red gene. f you know this info then you can assume your foal will be blue roan. But there is a 2% chance she will produce a throwback (a foal the same as a past grandsire/granddam/great-grandsire & dam) that may very well be blue roan. This can happen even if you bred her to a colour that would only produce, say, a chestnut. My buckskin's mother is a palomino and she was supposed to be bay according to genetics. But she was a throwback. In technical terms, the percentage of getting a blue roan from a bay roan mare and blue stallion is 17.58%, with the probability of bay roan being 52.73% Different take on this discussion: This mare is AaE-Rn- (unknown allele at the extension site and unknown allele at the Rn site). We know the second allele at the Agouti site is a because her sire was aaE-Rn- If the mare is bred to a blue roan stallion aaE-Rn- (again we don't know the disposition of the alleles for this stallion at the extension or roan sites). However, if either the mare or stallion is EE at the extension site there will be no chestnut or red roan foals produced from this mating. In this instance where either the stallion or the mare is EE at the extension site, there is a 50% chance that the foal will be black (aaE- or aaEE) and and 50% chance that the foal will be bay (AaEe or AaEE) in both cases there will be a 75% chance that the foal will be roan. 37.5% chance of blue roan (aaE-Rn-) 37.5% chance of bay roan (AaE-Rn-) 12.5% chance of bay (AaE-rnrn) 12.5% chance of black (aaE-rnrn) If both the mare and stallion are Ee at the extension site the percentages will change to include chestnut and red roan foal possibilities. If the stallion is homozygous for roan all foals produced from this mating will be roan with and 50% of the foals will be homozygous for roan. There is no information on the presence of the Silver or Taffy gene being represented in this breeding and it is not required to produce blue roan.
The genetics have everything to do with this. Supposing the mother is homozygous for roan and the sire is homozygous for dun, the foal would be either grullo roan, bay dun roan, or red dun roan. In the releated links is the website I used to calculate it. Play around with it a little and see all your options. Try seeing what will happen if the mare is heterozygous while the sire is homozygous, vice versa, and what if they are both heterozygous.
A mate for a mare is a stallion.The foals dad is called the sire which is the stallion....hope i helped!
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.
There is no difinite way to tell, but it could end up being a chestnut overo foal. They foal could also get it from it's distance dam's or sire's (great grandsire, grandsire, great granddam, granddam).
Then your foal could be grullo,dark buckskin,black,or prabaly black grullo
However, you can veiw the chances of each color with this Foal Color Calaculator in the relatred links. The calculator said the following when I entered in the mare and the stud coats Offspring Color Probability 43.95% - Buckskin 43.95% - Bay 3.13% - Palomino 3.13% - Chestnut 2.93% - Smoky Black 2.93% - Black However, there were options to specify. It asked for Red factor and the Agouti, whether it was heterozygous or homozygous. I did not know these specifics, so I left it as unknown, which is why I advise you go and experiment. See what would happen if the stud was homozygous, or if the mare was homozygous, or if she was heterozygous, etc. YOu can only know with the vet usually....but its unknown...you wont know until the foal is born sorry.
Its called a dam, the father is called a sire.
Mare
A foal's parents are the dam (mare) and sire (stallion).
Offspring Color Probability29.17% -Buckskin 29.17% -Bay 16.67% -Palomino 16.67% -Chestnut 4.17% -Smoky Black 4.17% -Black