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holiday
28th Apr 2007, 05:44 PM
If i put a cremello stallion on my grey mare (below) what are the colour chances for the foal, all her foals have greyed out up til now she i believe was a bay when born, her dad was black and her mum is down as brown/black?
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e321/Caroneno/IMG_1792.jpg
her foal last year was born as this
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e321/Caroneno/flo.jpg
and is now
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e321/Caroneno/florence.jpg
Is there any colour i could put on her to try to move the colours away from grey?
ambatt
28th Apr 2007, 07:30 PM
Your mare would have had to have had one grey parent to be grey too, it is dominant characteristic and cannot hide or skip a generation. One of her parents must have greyed out.
Foal prediction colours:
75.00% - Grey
14.58% - Buckskin
8.33% - Palomino
2.08% - Smoky Black
holiday
29th Apr 2007, 06:58 AM
I think mum must have greyed out, must check that with her breeder. Sounds silly i know but i love the foals she throws they are stunning, even the one i thought as a foal was an excuse is now a stunning three year old, i would just love to have a different colour from her, im so not a grey fan!!!!!! Thats dreadful i know, and ive got two other mares, one is white grey and the other greying out im going to have a yard full of grey foals!!! At least this mares foals stay quite dark for a while but il just have to get my bucket and sponge out alot!!!
ambatt
29th Apr 2007, 04:39 PM
Perhaps you might get lucky and get the 25% non-grey!
I have a grey PRE mare and I would love a non grey from her, but there is no test to tell me if she has one or two grey genes. If she has one copy of the grey gene I have the 75/25 thing going on, if she has two grey genes, then she will have 100% grey foals.
Your mare is lovely BTW.
holiday
30th Apr 2007, 06:49 AM
I really shouldnt complain she throws the most fantastic foals!!!!!
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