I have a palomino colt. The dam is chestnut, not sure what color her parents are. The sire is grey, his dam is grey and sire is palomino. The dam foaled a palomino baby ( we had been told there was about a 25% chance of that. My question is, if the dad passed on his dilute/cream gene, can the foal still turn grey, or is it one or the other, because the foal got his dilute/cream gene, he could not get his grey?
Thanks
Zoe
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Color question, Palomino foal...turn grey?
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Color question, Palomino foal...turn grey?
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Grey and cream are on different chromosomes. So with a grey sire, there are two possibilities.
1) he carries one copy of the grey gene, so he's sired grey, and other color foals.
In this case your foal has a 50 / 50 chance of getting the chromosome with the grey gene.
2) the stallion carries two copies of the grey gene-has only sired grey foals in which case your foal will have a 100 % chance of getting the grey gene and turning grey.
1) he carries one copy of the grey gene, so he's sired grey, and other color foals.
In this case your foal has a 50 / 50 chance of getting the chromosome with the grey gene.
2) the stallion carries two copies of the grey gene-has only sired grey foals in which case your foal will have a 100 % chance of getting the grey gene and turning grey.
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