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Post by laura on May 17, 2009 20:32:31 GMT -1
April as a 4 week foal was quite orange-y - but quickly changed to dark brown. If it's black it will either be black (but not the deep inky-black a grey foal is born with), silvery, or mole coloured. Silvery foal who will go black -  Brown foal -  Think the best way to tell is by looking at eyes and muzzle - ie April had orangey bits round the eyes and Harry has got grey bits round the eyes already. Black foals ditto. |
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Post by dalesponyrider on May 30, 2009 17:46:27 GMT -1
OK then, my imaginary money is on D producing Linda a lovely dark, dark bay colt with just a few white hairs on his forehead and solid coloured legs. How much money was that Heather? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Tynedale on Oct 14, 2013 10:42:52 GMT -1
Just bringing this back up re Lucy's question about white markings as the reply isn't there. Do white markings trump no white markings then Heather or do you need two Sb1 genes?? Can white markings be hidden in generations or does one parent have to have some white to get white? Your ladder analogy was great thanks! |
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Post by Minnie on Oct 17, 2013 9:04:58 GMT -1
Pretty sure white markings can just crop up in any line, as can roaning patches. Our stallion is whole black as was him dam, his sire had a tiny white patch of white hairs in a back heel (the rest of his breeding are pretty much whole coloured ponies) and when put to a whole black mare (with known whole black parentage) they produced a filly with a lovely star on her head. Another of ours mares, Slateyford Rosie has two white back feet and a star and again both her parents and her full siblings are whole black. When we put her to our stallion she gave us a filly with the exact markings as her with a slightly bigger star but less white on her back feet.
If you look at specific lines you can see lines that are more likely to produce a lot of white. We bred a pony that had 4 white socks/stockings, a stripe down her face and a dorsal stripe when we crossed a mare with 2 white feet and a star to a grey stallion. She was a beautiful stamp but completely the wrong colour! Lol. My two grey mares are/were whole grey however and are originally based on the same breeding. Our bay mare produces foals with identical markings and when you look at her full siblings they are all almost identical, generally not just markings wise. It's all very strange lol. I personally love a star and 2 white socks on a black, no markings on a grey and no other white on a bay except a star. I really don't do roans but can appreciate a nice one if I see it ;D haha
Come on someone explain genetics please lol
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Post by cassey1988 on Oct 17, 2013 16:12:38 GMT -1
Hi Lucy,
You can go to breeding and have a look at the bay/seal brown genetics topic. We got to grey and roan as well, it's very interesting.
People tend to think black is dominant, because in the base coat, it IS (dominant over chestnut). But indeed, in top coats it's recessive.
I'm just keeping thangs simple with my EE aa, haha!!
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