potential colour

50% chance of roan
50% chance of dun - EDIT sire appears buckskin not dun so cream not dun.
The bay/black/chestnut situation is tricky to really define without the genetics for the combination but leaving all those as unknowns AG throws up
70.31% -​
Bay
23.44% -​
Black
6.25% -​
Red (Chestnut/Sorrel)
 
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I say it most likely it would bay because Bay is a very dominant gene but in saying that a horse can come out any color it all depends on what genes the mare and stallion have.
 
Some animals throw to their own colour very consistently in my experience but of course they have to have had several foals to prove that. My original stallion was a black nr leopard appaloosa, sire a liver spotted leopard, dam a bay nr leopard. He could not throw chestnut. He had several chestnut mares to him, all either TB or TBx and every one had a bay foal.
Tiptoe Quicksilver, is that one of Lyn Rickman's breeding?
 
Its hard to know. My homogenous black mare with a grey stallion produced a grey gelding, eventually...with slight strawberry roan wintercoat. As a foal he was a deep liver colour, up to 2yrs old was chestnut with roan/grey...then finished up dapple grey fully at 5yrs old.
It was like the mares colour was completely ignored!

Other foals by same breeding pair produced bays....mostly fillies. It was only the few colts that turned out grey.
 
I'd check his and her past progeny and try to guess.
We know some stallions their whole progeny has same colour (bay) but some bay stallions has just %50 bay progeny...So bay is not dominant the individual is dominant, it depends on the dominance of the stallion and mare.
 
Errin Paddywack said:
Some animals throw to their own colour very consistently in my experience but of course they have to have had several foals to prove that. My original stallion was a black nr leopard appaloosa, sire a liver spotted leopard, dam a bay nr leopard. He could not throw chestnut. He had several chestnut mares to him, all either TB or TBx and every one had a bay foal.
Tiptoe Quicksilver, is that one of Lyn Rickman's breeding?
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out of interest were all of those appys colour tested? Often the LP skewing totally throws me as to their actual base colour.

Generally speaking it isn't particularly 'hard to know' though. There are predictable percentages, I even posted the :D
 
molar roller said:
I'd check his and her past progeny and try to guess.
We know some stallions their whole progeny has same colour (bay) but bay is not dominant, the individual is dominant, so it depends on the dominance of the stallion and mare.
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Errrm what? I don't think what you are saying is how genetics works.
 
I'd be happy with chestnut and *some* white splodges, though I feel I am quite likely to receive large white splodges.
OK, what are the actual odds?
Salty is chestnut with white flecking (sabino?) her dam was piebald, sire chestnut
Stallion is piebald. Rather convincingly so :p Samber in the breeding.

It's going to be cowprint isn't it :p
 
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out of interest were all of those appys colour tested? Often the LP skewing totally throws me as to their actual base colour.
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No, this was long before such tests became available. I think I could safely say that they were the colour I said. My boy had a full sister and if I remember correctly two full brothers, all were bay base colour. Mine went on to throw several fillies the same colour as himself. One was mine and she gave me a virtually identical version of herself and her sire.Tibertich Poncho at 12 years.jpgErrin Tribute age 3 yrs.gifhallmark.gif Interestingly my boy had the odd tiny ginger spot and passed this on.
My pictures show my first boy, Poncho, then his daughter and finally her son. His white socks came in from his sire's breeding. Poncho didn't throw white markings or at least not out of any of my mares.
The picture of Poncho was taken only a matter of a few weeks before I lost him at twelve to a grossly enlarged heart, he looked in superb health to the end. I lost his daughter foaling at nine and gave up breeding as a result.
 
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