Help with colors!!!! What would I get? HELP! Confused!!

Shannon · 05-30-2007, 11:56 AM

Is the stud a cremello or perlino?

EDIT: Oops, I'm blonde

Yes, that is a 100% guarantee. Since he is homozygous for agouti, the gene that turns a black horse bay, he will always pass on a bay gene. Bay is dominant to black, so he will never sire a black foal

. A cremello will always pass on a dilute gene, which means you'll always get a palomino, buckskin, etc. So as long as you're breeding a chestnut or bay or black mare to this cremello, 100% of the time will you get a pali or a buckskin.

Hope that helps!

JBandRio · 05-30-2007, 11:57 AM

Assuming the test was accurate, what they say is true. Being homozygous for Agouti means he will always pass it on, and by default that modifies a black horse into bay (or brown). So no, he can never produce a black horse.

However, if he's a cremello, then he can't produce black by default (just like he cannot produce a bay or a chestnut). What they REALLY mean is that he cannot produce a smokey black - a black horse with one dilute gene.

mtroika · 05-30-2007, 04:47 PM

Thanks guys! You guys are to helpfull!!!! Its all sort of starting to make send to me LOL

05-30-2007, 11:56 AM	#11
Shannon Senior Member+ Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: So Cal Posts: 7,220 Images: 983 Blog Entries: 63	Is the stud a cremello or perlino? EDIT: Oops, I'm blonde Yes, that is a 100% guarantee. Since he is homozygous for agouti, the gene that turns a black horse bay, he will always pass on a bay gene. Bay is dominant to black, so he will never sire a black foal . A cremello will always pass on a dilute gene, which means you'll always get a palomino, buckskin, etc. So as long as you're breeding a chestnut or bay or black mare to this cremello, 100% of the time will you get a pali or a buckskin. Hope that helps! __________________ Reina -- 1997 American Trakehner Mare <3 I've been snowballed! Member of the HGS 20 Pound Club... High Weight: 143 Start Weight: 133 Goal Weight: 103 Current Weight: 112

05-30-2007, 11:57 AM	#12
JBandRio Senior Member+ Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: NC Posts: 23,748 Images: 145 Blog Entries: 12	Assuming the test was accurate, what they say is true. Being homozygous for Agouti means he will always pass it on, and by default that modifies a black horse into bay (or brown). So no, he can never produce a black horse. However, if he's a cremello, then he can't produce black by default (just like he cannot produce a bay or a chestnut). What they REALLY mean is that he cannot produce a smokey black - a black horse with one dilute gene. __________________ - 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) - You can't hit me with all those snowballs!

05-30-2007, 04:47 PM	#13
mtroika Senior Member+ Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Kamloops, BC!! Love it! :) Posts: 2,484 Images: 290	Thanks guys! You guys are to helpfull!!!! Its all sort of starting to make send to me LOL __________________ I have been Snowballed MC Blue Star Stables www.mcbluestarstable.com/website

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