Comments on: Quarter Horse Coat Color Genetics

By: Lisa Covey

Lisa Covey — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:19:49 +0000

Matt,

Thank you for your e-mail and to answer your question it would be helpful to know the gray’s color at time of birth. I will tell you that the gray horse will pass on the gray gene 50% of the time. The palomino will produce sorrel/chestnut or palomino.

Lisa Covey
Equine Color Specialist

By: matt

matt — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:23:27 +0000

i breed my gray mare with a palomino what color chances does the foal have

By: Lisa Covey

Lisa Covey — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:11:39 +0000

Steve,

Thank you for your email and to answer your question the only color you will get are sorrel/chestnut, red dun or red roan. You could also get a red dun that carries the roan gene. I hope this will help you.

Lisa Covey
Equine Color Specialist

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:44:18 +0000

I have a red dun mare and want to breed her to a red roan stud… what colors am I looking at getting..? thanks.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:21:53 +0000

Thanks A lot Lisa!

By: Alexa

Alexa — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:21:27 +0000

Thanks Alot!

By: Shawna

Shawna — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:07:46 +0000

Thank you Lisa!

By: Lisa Covey

Lisa Covey — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:56:56 +0000

Shawna,

Thank you for your e-mail and to answer your question, if the black mare does carry a creme gene and by breeding her to a palomino stallion there is the possibilitie of cremello, perlino or smoky creme (your double dilute colors). The other color possibilities are sorrel/chestnut, palomino, bay, brown, black, buckskin or smoky black. I hope this information will help you.

Lisa Covey
Equine Color Specialist

By: Shawna

Shawna — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:18:47 +0000

Hi, I am breeding a black mare (we think she is a smoke black, she was grey at birth and darkened to black, and is jet black in the winter, but she has creamy cheeks (a patch under both eyes) and some cream on her muzzle after she sheds into her summer coat). We are wanting to breed her to a palomino stud and I was wondering what she would produce. Her sire was a buckskin(grandsire and dam were bay and dun) and her dam was a bay (grandsire and dam ches and bay). His sire is a palomino(grandsire and dam buck/dun and palomino) his dam a sorrel. I found a chart that showed the cross, but just about all the colors were listed as possible outcomes so I was wondering with this information if there was a way to be more certain of the outcome.
Thanks, Shawna

By: Lisa Covey

Lisa Covey — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:55:39 +0000

Alexa,

Thank you for your e-mail and to answer your question the color possibilities from these two parents are sorrel/chestnut, palomino, bay, brown, black, buckskin, smoky black, red dun, dun or grullo. I hope this will help you.

Lisa Covey or Debbie Black
Equine Color Specialist

By: Alexa

Alexa — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:54:50 +0000

Hii I Was Wondering What Would Be Colt’s Color Turn Out Too Be When Its Born If The Mom Is A Light Palomino And The Dad Is A Dark Dun?

By: Lisa Covey

Lisa Covey — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:10:40 +0000

Jolene,

Thank you for your e-mail and to answer your question the color possibilities are chestnut/sorrel, bay, brown, black, red roan, bay roan or blue roan. I hope this will help you.

Lisa Covey or Debbie Black
Equine Color Specialist