Recent content by durydancer

wow!!! he looks so lovely, his colouring is amazing! and hardly any generations away from the first ever Connemara apparently! impressive. hahaha I think id just be happy for anything now, aslong as she/he has the same temperament as my mare but not as 'feisty' when shes in season haha

Thank you! But on the website it said; G/g Grey Positive for dominant grey gene, carrying a single inherited copy. Carrier's coat modified and will eventually become de-pigmented. Heterozygous grey horses are statistically likely to pass the gene to 50% of their progeny when bred. So the...

Thank you, can I just get the vet to test her for it?

That is so interesting thank you for that! I think I'm definitely going to get her genetically tested, hadn't even heard of the melanoma risk with the colours!! And that stallion is absolutely gorgeous!

And thank you amazona but I think I want to keep the foal purebred connemara :)

Ohhhh okay I understand the buckskin dun thing, not as confusing as I thought! So is there a way of getting her genetically tested to see it she has two grey genes? And what is the rough price? Thank you everyone for the help

her sire was grey, his grandsire was dun and gran dam was grey, and her dam was grey, with a grey grandsire and unknown granddam. there are quite a few buckskins and duns in her breeding. which confuses me slightly as it says 'dun' on their breeding? so how is the dun gene present if its not in...

or a dun foal!

Hi there! in the next few years I am looking to breed my purebred dapple grey Connemara, I have been looking at a few of the forums and getting myself confused. is grey the dominant gene? If so, does this mean Dancer (my mare) would be unable to produce a buckskin foal? I know it sounds picky...