Horse Breeding

There are two genes that produce gold colored coats in horses. One is the cream gene and the other is the champagne gene. In both cases the underlying coat color must be red....ie....chestnut or sorrel. The cream gene makes palomino out of a red horse when only one cream is present...when two are present the horse is a cremello. The cream also makes buckskins (with one cream on a bay horse) or perlino (two creams on a bay horse) and smokey black (one cream on a black horse...often not noticed) and smokey cream (two creams on a black horse). The champagne gene also produces what appears to be palomino when present in a single gene on a red horse. It is often a more shiney color and the skin tone and eye color are changed with champagne but not with single cream.

They won't show the signs of estrus, and they'll generally start getting fatter. A few weeks prior to giving birth, the colostrum begins to form and is visible on the teats ("waxing") and the muscles around the tailhead relax. However, there have been plenty of people who've been fooled into thinking their horse isn't pregnant only to find a foal one day.

It is possible for a yearling stallion to impregnate a filly or mare; however, most trainers and breeders recommend waiting until the horse is 3-4 years old before using him as a stud.

Devote the time leading up to breeding age handling, socializing, teaching manners, and training for your chosen sport. Stallions that are properly trained are better behaved and safer for both the handler and mare.

same as any other horse, about 10 months

They grow until they stop at a certain age.

We have a horse here that will do as many as he can get his hands on witch was 2 then we have another mare that just went into heat he hasn't reacted yet so my guess is as many as he figure he can get.

well a horse is a mammal so it gives birth like all moms it comes from the tummy it bleeds its in pain they cut it out and there... ^_^

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According to a nifty foal color calculator, which you can find the link to in the related links, the foal has the following chances of being each color:

29.17% -

Perlino

29.17% -

Buckskin

16.67% -

Palomino

16.67% -

Cremello

4.17% -

Smoky Cream

4.17% -

Smoky Black

You may want to mess around with the calculator because there are different genetic things that come into play. I did just the basics, because I did not know whether your mare was homozygous for the red factor or not, or if the stallion was a silver carrier. So, experiment with that, and you can get a better picture of what the foal will be.

To be any good for breeding, a horse should have excellent conformation, great bloodlines, a good temperament and be proven in the showring. If you breed horses that don't meet these requirements, you are adding to the useless, unwanted worthless horses sent to slaughter, or worse- neglected and abused.

Mares are seasonally polyestrus. This means they cycle every 3-4 weeks throughout the spring and summer. Mares will often not exhibit signs of estrus (heat) unless they are near either a stallion or a strange horse they aren't yet familiar with.

The Howrse answer is that "there is no common season."

However, mares are typically most receptive around spring and summer, which would likely be the "common" season that mares get bred. But a mare can really get bred any time of the year.

It depends on the breed of the race horse. Quarter Horses, Arabians, Paints, Appaloosas and even mules are raced as are Thoroughbreds.

A Thoroughbred on average will weigh about 1200 lbs.

No, it doesn't hurt the horse when it gives birth due to the many hormones that are released during birth.

No, horses are mammals and have a live birth

Buck, Ben's horse, was a buckskin. Sport, Adam's horse, was a sorrel. Chubb or Chubby, Hoss's horse, was a dark brown. Cochise, Little Joe's horse, was a black and white pinto or a piebald. Black and white pinto means the same thing as piebald.

The common term for the gene that modifies a chestnut to a palomino is a dilution.

Horseisle2 answer: Cream

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Wild or domestic, it doesn't vary that much. A mare will have a heat cycle that lasts about 7-14 days. If she does not get pregnant she will have another cycle. If no pregnancy occurs by late fall the cold weather will subdue her heat cycles. When the days get longer and warmer in the spring her heat cycle will start up again.

Male horses (Stallion if over 4 years and colt if under four years) Can help to create a foal with a mare (female horse over four, filly for a female under four.) But they themselves cannot carry a foal as they do not have wombs. only female horses can carry the young and give birth to them.

It depends on the breed. There is so many different breeds, and sizes. Like a Fellabella (smallest horse) Colt yearling, would be tiny, but a Shire (biggest horse) Colt yearling would be really big. So there ISN'T a average size for any horse, unless you want to know about a certain breed, then I might could help you.

This might sound strange but the first two weeks the mare is very likely to get pregnant. After that she will wait until the foal is about four months old before she will get pregnant again.

Approximately 20% of mares will continue to show heat signs while in foal...some for only a cycle or two and some through their entire pregnancy....and a few of those will continue to accept a stallion even though pregnant. I'm not aware of exact stats on that however.

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.

As a true owner of a beautiful warm blood horse, I know that a pure bred horse can go anywhere to $10,000 to $100,000,000. If you are planning to in hand show, than a pure bred is a great horse for you!

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