blitznbobs
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If you have a horse homozygous for perlino but has one grey gene will it be grey or perlino?
Colour question grey vs perlino
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Palindrome
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It's a greyalino.
Fleece Navidad
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They'll eventually grey out.
blitznbobs
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Ive just been offered a pre mare with this colouring for my stud and she looks perlino to me … but just wondering how it would work going forward if I bred her to say a chestnut what colours could i get?
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
I wondered if anyone had any experience with these and melanoma?
A friend had one and as it started greying out it came out in a lot of small melanoma and wondered if this was a freak occurrence or common.
A friend had one and as it started greying out it came out in a lot of small melanoma and wondered if this was a freak occurrence or common.
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blitznbobs
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Not that im in the market for another horse you understand…
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
You'd get a single dilute with 50% chance of a grey gene.
Palindrome
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The perlino is 2 cream genes plus agouti on a black base, the mare coud carry chestnut too as black is dominant.
So 50% bucksin or palomino and 50% grey on buckskin or palomino.
ETA: There is also a chance of smoky black if both mare and stallion aren't homozygous for agouti.
Otherwise
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Perlino is double cream on a bay base, it's smoky cream if it's on a black base.
Palindrome
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bay is black based with agouti, there is only black or chesnut as a base color.
Otherwise
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Yes, but just like you wouldn't call a bay a black horse despite it technically being black based a perlino is different to a smoky cream.
I suppose if i was being pedantic I should have said smoky cream is black base without agouti.
ester
Not slacking multitasking
double dilutes tend to hide grey unless you get to see them as a hyperpigmented foal. There was talk of them having more issues re. cancers/melanomas thatn *just grey as a combined effect but certainly on colour genetics groups its been stated there is no evidence for that.
yes of course not in the market for another horse no one ever is here.
yes of course not in the market for another horse no one ever is here.