Color Genetics...any boffins out there?

[Kenzo]

Color Genetics

Question...what colour would the offspring be if the sire was a skewbald and the dam was a dapple grey?

Sorry I know its pretty vague and it depends on the the grandsire/grand dam etc too but any info would be great.

Feel free to play around with grand parents colors to determine variations of offspring...

 

[Ezme]

you need to know acctual genetics (i.e. chromozomes etc) not colour of sire/dam esp if one if homozoygonous as the offpring will always be that colour

 

[HorseS0S]

It is hard to work out because of some genes being able to override other colour genes. Is it really important to you because there are ways to find out I vaguely remember from Uni, but I know one thing... it will be a cute little foal! Ahhhh x x x

 

[horsegirl]

foal colour predictor. Don't know how accurate though

http://www.horsetesting.com/CCalculator1.asp

 

[nitro_nimph]

You would have to have the genetics on at least one parent to have a guess, and on both the colours of the grandparents and parents to get a guess without genetics - so basically its a gamble, it could be purple
lol, but either way it'll be cute so it hardly matters

 

[Daisychain]

I would imagine that it would be grey, as grey i think is dominent, but if it is coloured then there is a big risk of it fading out due to the nature of the grey!

 

[Eluana]

If gray mare is G/G then the foal (and all foals from her) will be gray unless she/stallion is double dilute. If she's G/g the foal has a 50% of being gray.
Skewbald is chestnut/bay with tobaino (or something, can't quite remember) so depending on stallions genetics depends on chance of the foal being colored. If it is tobaino, T/T means foal will be coloured. T/t means foal has 50% of being coloured.

If you know the genetics of the mare and stallion it would be a big help in figuring out the colour options

*What I've said my not be 100% right as I haven't looked at equine genetics in a while*

Ask in the breeding forum - Their be more help

 

[The Original Kao]

i'm quite interested in this 1 as my filly's dam is blue and white or grey and white (whatever you want to call it). her sire is supposed to be ed king hill who is a skewbald, so i did wonder if her dam was a grey to get this kind of colour?

 

[Kenzo]

Thanks everybody for your views, much appreciated.