Can a horse with Ee and cream gene and silver gene and agouti look like a palomino?

Answer 1

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.

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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.

Answer 2

Yes, a horse with the genetics Ee (carries a cream gene), Silver, and Agouti can have the physical appearance of a palomino. The cream gene lightens the coat color, the Silver gene can give a dilution effect, and Agouti restricts black pigment, collectively resulting in a palomino-like appearance with a metallic sheen.