please advise grey
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Sylvie Hebert
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please advise grey
Irona grey mare by Home at Last,what can she produce from chestnut horse?or cremello?
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Hi Sylvie,
First have you seen any of your mare's other foals, or is this a first foal?
Both her parents are grey, so she has a 1 in 4 chance of carrying two copies of the grey gene. There is some feeling that horses that have two copies of the grey gene grey out very fast.
I'd guess from the look of her pedigree she's a black based horse, but there are some chestnuts close up in her pedigree.
So if she's a double grey, you are going to get a grey no matter what color horse she's bred to.
If she carries one copy of the grey gene, her foals have a 50/50 chance of turning grey no matter what color they are born.
If she's carrying one copy of the black base coat gene and one copy of the red gene, the foal has a 50/50 chance of being either chestnut, or black/bay when bred to a chestnut stallion.
If you have more information the choices can be narrowed down a bit.
Hope this helps.
First have you seen any of your mare's other foals, or is this a first foal?
Both her parents are grey, so she has a 1 in 4 chance of carrying two copies of the grey gene. There is some feeling that horses that have two copies of the grey gene grey out very fast.
I'd guess from the look of her pedigree she's a black based horse, but there are some chestnuts close up in her pedigree.
So if she's a double grey, you are going to get a grey no matter what color horse she's bred to.
If she carries one copy of the grey gene, her foals have a 50/50 chance of turning grey no matter what color they are born.
If she's carrying one copy of the black base coat gene and one copy of the red gene, the foal has a 50/50 chance of being either chestnut, or black/bay when bred to a chestnut stallion.
If you have more information the choices can be narrowed down a bit.
Hope this helps.
At the following thread:
http://www.pedigreequery.com/forum/view ... t=articles
I recommend the reading of this article:
http://www.apha.com/breed/pdf/GraycoatcolorAug06.pdf
http://www.pedigreequery.com/forum/view ... t=articles
I recommend the reading of this article:
http://www.apha.com/breed/pdf/GraycoatcolorAug06.pdf