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Grey is a genetically dominant color in horses, so one parent must be grey. You increase your odds of getting grey by breeding 2 greys together. A homozygous grey can only produce (mares) or sire (stallions) grey foals. Most greys will have dappling at younger ages, but many become white or a flea bitten grey as they get older.
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What if you breed a black horse to a gray horse?
What color would the foal be? I can't give you an exact answer, unless both the dam and sire have been DNA tested. However, I can give you a rough idea: If the grey horse has one grey parent, the foal has a 50/50 chance of being grey. If the grey horse has two grey parents, the foal will either have a 50/50 chance of being grey, or a 100% chance of being grey (impossible to know without DNA testing). Now, if the foal isn't grey, it could potentially be just about any color on the planet without knowing what genes the dam and sire carry.
Can a chestnut Arabian mare bred to a black Arabian stallion produce a grey foal?
Yes, it is possible for a chestnut Arabian mare bred to a black Arabian stallion to produce a grey foal. If either the mare or stallion carry the gene for greying, there is a chance that the foal may inherit this gene and develop a grey coat color as it matures.
Can a cremello stallion produce a gray foal?
Yes, because if you have a grey mare or stud whose base coat color was a dilute color such as palomino 0r buckskin before they turned grey, then that horse is bred to a dilute colored mare, the resulting foal could be a cremello that is also carrying the grey gene. Therefore, cremellos and perlinos can, if they are out of a grey parent, produce a dilute foal that turns grey. UC Davis now offers the genetic testing for the grey gene, so any cremellos or perlinos out of grey parents should be tested before being touted as 100% dilute color producers, or mare owners will be greatly disappointed!
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.
Can a buckskin mare bred to a chestnut produce a gray baby?
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 DdFATHER - chestnut DDFOAL: Possible combinationsDD (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 birthif 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.
What if you breed a black horse to a gray horse?
What color would the foal be? I can't give you an exact answer, unless both the dam and sire have been DNA tested. However, I can give you a rough idea: If the grey horse has one grey parent, the foal has a 50/50 chance of being grey. If the grey horse has two grey parents, the foal will either have a 50/50 chance of being grey, or a 100% chance of being grey (impossible to know without DNA testing). Now, if the foal isn't grey, it could potentially be just about any color on the planet without knowing what genes the dam and sire carry.
What colour foal will you get from a gray and chestnut?
It depends on what genes the foal gets. You didn't mention what color the horse was before it turned grey, so that makes this difficult to answer. Grey isn't a color gene all its own, its a color modifying gene. Grey horses start out a normal color, and then their coat grows lighter as they mature.If the grey horse is dominant for grey, the foal will most likely be born a color and change to grey as he ages. If the grey horse is not homozygous for grey, then the foal has a 50-50 chance of being grey.
What color foal would be produced by a black stud and line back dun mare?
Depending on the exact genes of both parents, the foal could be: Black Chestnut Bay The foal may also be a dun The foal cannot be gray because a gray foal must have one gray parent. Probably a dark dun or a black or a grey but it sometimes depends on the mother and farther's parents.
Can a chestnut Arabian mare bred to a black Arabian stallion produce a grey foal?
Yes, it is possible for a chestnut Arabian mare bred to a black Arabian stallion to produce a grey foal. If either the mare or stallion carry the gene for greying, there is a chance that the foal may inherit this gene and develop a grey coat color as it matures.
What color is the breyer fun foal twins?
Paint and grey I believe.
Dapple grey breed to a sorrel will have what color foal?
Depends on the grey. You can only tell if you know the color before it turned gray.
What colour foal would you get if you bred a gray stallion and a black mare?
i got a cherry bay coat color Gray is independent of base coat color. If the stallion is heterozygous for grey there is a 50% chance that the foal will be gray. If the stallion is homozygous for grey the foal will be gray. If the stallion has only one gray parent then he is heterozygous. That being said, the base coat color of a gray/color of a non-gray foal can be partially extrapolated from the parents/grandparents/great grandparents.
What color is my foal his dam is grey and his sire is grey but the sire carries the black gene and the sorrel?
Then your foal could be grullo,dark buckskin,black,or prabaly black grullo
Can a cremello stallion produce a gray foal?
Yes, because if you have a grey mare or stud whose base coat color was a dilute color such as palomino 0r buckskin before they turned grey, then that horse is bred to a dilute colored mare, the resulting foal could be a cremello that is also carrying the grey gene. Therefore, cremellos and perlinos can, if they are out of a grey parent, produce a dilute foal that turns grey. UC Davis now offers the genetic testing for the grey gene, so any cremellos or perlinos out of grey parents should be tested before being touted as 100% dilute color producers, or mare owners will be greatly disappointed!
What color horse will you get if you breed a blue roan to grey?
The Jockey Club definition of roan is essentially the same as grey...which would mean that there would be a 75% to 100% chance of a horse that gradually turns white over a period of years reguardless of it's base coat color. If roan has true roan (Rn) genetics and the other parent is grey (G) we know that each parent has a 50% chance of transmitting their dominant gene (if both are heterozygous). This means that 25% chance of Roan 25% chance of Grey 25% chance of both Grey and Roan and a 25% chance of the foal being the base color only (base color could be black, chestnut, bay etc based on the parent's genetics at the Agouti and Extension sites). If one parent is homozygous the foal have that characteristic 100% of the time and the foal will also have the other characteristic 50% of the time.
What colour foal will you get if you breed white mare with a sorrel stallion?
brown So, white could mean maximum expression sabino or gray. If the mare has pink skin she is probably maximum expression sabino and her base coat color can be extrapolated (to a degree) from the base color of her parents and grandparents. If the mare is a maximum expression sabino amount of white will be determined by the genetics of the stallion in conjunction with the genetics of the mare. If the mare has dark skin she is gray. Gray is independent of base color...so the resulting foal could be any base color with a 50 or 100% chance of being gray. If the mare is gray Gg there is a 50% chance that the foal will be grey, If the mare is GG any foal produced will be grey. Again base coat color can be extrapolated from the parents/grandparents to a degree. A gray horse will always have a gray parent. The stallion is XXee as he is sorrel/chestnut again, looking at his parents/grandparents may lend information on his genetics at the agouti site and the subsequent possible color of the foal.
How do a horse changes color?
Horses change color through genetics mostly, and sometime environmental factors. Take the 'color' grey for example, Grey is actually just a modifier, not an actual color in and of itself. The foal may be born dark, but over time the genetic code for grey will act on the color the foal was born with and slowly lighten the coat to grey. As for environmental causes the most common would be sun bleaching. If a darker colored horse is out in the sun for long periods of time the sun will cause the hair color to 'wash out' and become more of a burnt orange or strange brown color.
