Roc On & colour

ohk thanx !!!!

ohk thanx !!!!

Omg shell how do you know all this my head hurts and i never knew it was all so technical. i always thought it was pot luck hahaha Well ya learn something new every day thanks.

As they say... you learn something new EVERYDAY!!!!!!!!!

Ok, if the mare is Bay, it does not matter if her dad was grey... She DOES NOT have the grey gene, it is a dominant, ie if they have it it shows! It cannot be carried "hidden" So you can take any chance of a foal greying out of the equation if it's parents are not grey...grandparents don't matter!

so it wud b a buckskin or pally ??

One or the other! lol need more generations of pedigree colour to say...even then chestnut can stay hidden.....for MANY generations...look at CB's 400 odd years and the odd chestnut purebred still pops up once in a blue moon!

wikid !!! dad says MAYB. i will get 2 put her 2 Roc !!! cuz Dad wanted 2 put her 2 a thoroughbred stallion an get a racehorse bt its gonna cost 2 much rite nw so he sed mayb i cud get a foal outa her 1st !!! 1/2 QH an 1/2 TB !!

So from my limited studies from a bay when you put a perlino (Dble Cream) over her you are most likely to get a bucky.

Unless there is the random chestnut gene. When you may get a pally.

Where does the smokey black fit in?

If one wanted to learn more about genetics, and colours what would be a good place to start... eg good books etc..??

wrighty wrote:If one wanted to learn more about genetics, and colours what would be a good place to start... eg good books etc..??

I was at a Horse SA workshop extravaganza a few years ago when Jeanette Gower was promoting her book. She did a great job, and kept her cool even when a colleague and I (we were both there by co-incidence, not design) got a bit carried away with playing with her bits of coloured card and tried combinations that were a bit more than she intended.

However, I haven't read the book and have no idea whether it goes into all the colours that seem to have been invented in recent (relatively) years.

Back in my day only ponies were black and white or brown and white, and they were piebald or skewbald. I could go on, but lunch calls

Amy wrote:wikid !!! dad says MAYB. i will get 2 put her 2 Roc !!! cuz Dad wanted 2 put her 2 a thoroughbred stallion an get a racehorse bt its gonna cost 2 much rite nw so he sed mayb i cud get a foal outa her 1st !!! 1/2 QH an 1/2 TB !!

Dear Amy

Sadly, 'getting a racehorse' isn't quite as simple as putting a TB mare to a TB stallion (just ask how many of us have 'failed' racers at home).

Also, the stud fee is just the beginning of a potential money pit. Worst case scenario is that you could end up with massive vet bills, no foal and a dead mare.

May I ask why you want to breed your mare?

Caroline

Craig wrote:One or the other! lol need more generations of pedigree colour to say...even then chestnut can stay hidden.....for MANY generations...look at CB's 400 odd years and the odd chestnut purebred still pops up once in a blue moon!

Friesians too!

Horse Colour Explained covers - chestnut, black, bay, dun, buckskin, palomino, overo, tobiano, sabino, appaloosa (all patterns), taffy (aka silver) and champagne. Don't think anything was mentioned about Pearl which I think is a new one. That's what I can remember from off the top of my head lol.

I like it, got some gorgeous photos