Color Q. w/Pictures

PeggySue · 04-13-2007, 04:01 PM

I keep telling you he is gonna shed white with bay spots

MyBelgianAzzy · 04-13-2007, 04:12 PM

LMAO I'm getting a mod to close this if you two conspiring witches don't uncast your spells!

4hooves4me2 · 04-13-2007, 04:16 PM

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Sppppppppottttttssssss Neeeeeeeeeeeeded....hmmmmmmmmmm

JBandRio · 04-13-2007, 05:49 PM

Yes, he's bay, no doubt about it.

Not all bays have solid black legs all the way to the knees/hocks. Many have those tan hairs - some more, some less. My old TB gelding was more tan around his tendons in the back, like your guy is, when he had his Winter coat, but they shed out to darker hairs for his Summer coat.

To clarify what Shannon said - homozygous for black DOES mean homozygous for black, but it doesn't necessarily mean the horse IS black. The horse can be black, bay, buckskin, perlino, smokey black, grulla, etc, and be homozygous for black.

Magvns · 04-13-2007, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by MyBelgianAzzy

Mom is out of and by a bay. Her dad is a clydesdale- they have rather limited colors, most of them are either black or bay, many with white (sometimes producing a pinto).

dad looks like a friesian!

beautiful baby - i'd say dark bay

JetdecksComet · 04-13-2007, 11:54 PM

Bay... the silvery (tannish in the summer) marks on the lower legs are the "wild-type" bay gene at work.

JBandRio · 04-14-2007, 05:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magvns

dad looks like a friesian!

I missed this before - I agree, that ain't no Clydesdale!

lilrider · 04-14-2007, 07:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JBandRio

I missed this before - I agree, that ain't no Clydesdale!

I think MBA meant that the colts dam's sire is a clydesdale, not the colts sire. lol

MyBelgianAzzy · 04-14-2007, 08:08 AM

LOL I should have been more specific- Sire is a friesian, Dam is registered American Warmblood, and is out of a Clydesdale mare (bay or black is a safe assumption), but I'm not sure what my colt's sire's color was.

Shannon · 04-14-2007, 08:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MyBelgianAzzy

LOL I should have been more specific- Sire is a friesian, Dam is registered American Warmblood, and is out of a Clydesdale mare (bay or black is a safe assumption), but I'm not sure what my colt's sire's color was.

If the sire is a purebred friesian, I'm guaranteeing he's black

04-13-2007, 04:01 PM	#11
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04-13-2007, 05:49 PM	#14
JBandRio Senior Member+ Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: NC Posts: 21,456 Images: 131 Blog Entries: 12	Yes, he's bay, no doubt about it. Not all bays have solid black legs all the way to the knees/hocks. Many have those tan hairs - some more, some less. My old TB gelding was more tan around his tendons in the back, like your guy is, when he had his Winter coat, but they shed out to darker hairs for his Summer coat. To clarify what Shannon said - homozygous for black DOES mean homozygous for black, but it doesn't necessarily mean the horse IS black. The horse can be black, bay, buckskin, perlino, smokey black, grulla, etc, and be homozygous for black. __________________ - JB Acres, owned and operated by Dynamite animals. - It's a wonder horses as a whole don't just kill us all and be done with their misery. - Keep your voice soothing and low - even when things get western (buck1173) - Rio feels good - he bounced an in-and-out

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04-13-2007, 11:54 PM	#16
JetdecksComet Senior Member+ Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 274 Images: 1	Bay... the silvery (tannish in the summer) marks on the lower legs are the "wild-type" bay gene at work.