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PostSubject: foal color   foal color Icon_minitimeFri Jun 26, 2009 9:52 am

If theres color experts on here...foals nose is pitch black so I'm assuming he'll be black or bay ? but what is it they say a Jet Black or True Black has Black skin??? how would you define a true black :lookitup.gif:
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PostSubject: Re: foal color   foal color Icon_minitimeSat Jun 27, 2009 7:39 pm

Genetically a 'True Black' or 'Jet Black' horse is either homozygous dominant (EE), or heterozygous (Ee), because only one copy of the dominant allele is necessary for the black color to be expressed. If the horse was genetically a chestnut then it would be homozygous recessive (ee).

Where as a 'Bay' horse has the agouti gene which restricts black to the points (the nose, ears, mane, tail, and knee/hock down on all four legs). So a bay horse (or a buckskin, or dun) would carry the genes either as homozygous dominant (AA) or heterozygous (Aa), where a black horse would not have this gene and be heterozygous recessive (aa).

So really genetics are what define a horses color for me because there really isn't always a cut and dry option, because with all the modifer genes a horse can quickly start to look like it might possibly be another color. I've even see some people register their horse a certain color that isn't even genetcally possible because their parents don't even carry the right genes but they "look" like that color.

Does any of that make sense?? What colors were the sire and dam??
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PostSubject: Re: foal color   foal color Icon_minitimeSat Jun 27, 2009 8:37 pm

here is pic of foal born May 3rd....mom is a paint included in pic and dad is a bay
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and here is dad
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PostSubject: Re: foal color   foal color Icon_minitimeSat Jun 27, 2009 8:43 pm

With a Solid Bay for a Sire and a Bay Tobiano for a Dam here are your color possibilities:

Offspring Color Probability

65.92% - Bay Tobiano
21.97% - Bay
4.69% - Chestnut Tobiano
4.39% - Black Tobiano
1.56% - Chestnut
1.46% - Black

So I would say there is a VERY good chance that you probably have a bay there ;)
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PostSubject: Re: foal color   foal color Icon_minitimeSat Jun 27, 2009 8:51 pm

I've edited to enlarge the pictures ...I was also thinking possibility of a bay due to legs being lighter in color....thanks Moody Blue.
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