[daiquiri]

I bred my Silver Dappled Taffy mare to a Perlino. Does anyone have an idea as to what I will get out of that mating. Thanks

[aqh88]

What's the base coat of the mare or in other words what color was she born? Greys can be born sorrel, black, bay, etc before the grey gene covers up the color and that will effect the color of the baby. There's a 50% chance you'll have a grey no matter what.

Then the other 50% is probably a palomino, buckskin, or smokey black. If the mare's base coat involved a cream gene like the perlino along with the first 3 colors you could also get perlino, cremello, and smokey cream. Highest chance out of those is probably a buckskin since the sire is perlino but all are a possibility and the mare's base color will increase or decrease the odds of getting any of those.

[Appylvr]

I believe the mare is this color... what we call a Silver Bay in the USA... and the Australians call a Taffy


I'm not positive on what color you'd get, but if you bred her to a Perlino than I think you have a good chance of getting a cream foal.

[Jenje!]

This is one of the pictures I came up with when I googled silver dapple taffy...

[daiquiri]

I have no idea what base colour the mare is. She is actually a Pinto as well.

[Belladonna]

well the taffy(aussies call it taffy because the aussie writer, J. Gower refers to it as taffy), silver or chocolate gene only effects black based coats. so a chestnut, palomino or cremello can carry the taffy(silver/chocolate) gene and show no sines of it. It's hard to tell what your mare will have without actually knowing if she has the agouti gene(bay gene) or not. If your horse is a bay taffy then it will turn the legs a brown or tan colour, and will have a cream mane and tail with black roots. As the agouti gene is dominant over the black gene there is no way a black horse can carry it without the coat being effected. So if your mare doesn't carry the agouti gene there is about a 75% chance that she'll throw a black based foal with the agouti gene(depending on if the sire is homozygous(pure) agouti or heterozygous(cross) agouti. if the stallion is homozygous agouti then you will get a foal with the bay colouring no question about it. however there is a 50% chance that you will get a foal that is effected by the taffy gene. You will get a black based foal, as black is dominant over chestnut. unless of course, both the parents are heterozygous black and (unlikely) throw a chestnut foal, because both the chestnut genes were selected rather then (more comon) one black one chestnut, or even both black. your foal will be effect by atleast one cream dilution, as the sire is homozygous cream (as perlino needs 2 cream dilutes to form). I have never heard of a silver dappled taffy smokey black but i'm sure it's possible. hope this helps.

[JBandRio]

Belladonna to the rescue

[lamoo]

Wow, that's an intersting mix of colors. ^^ I'd be happy to see what the foal turns out to look like when he's born!

[daiquiri]

Thanks you very much for your help Belladonna. I really appreciate it. My mare is due in November. I will let you know what she has.

[cassidy]

omg colors really do confuse me grrrrrr

i was thinking though wouldnt the foal be some sort of chestnut??