Comments on: Learn How Horses Get Their Colors

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:28:29 +0000

What If You Breed A Bay Mare To A Chestnut Paint Stud.?

By: Lisa Covey

Lisa Covey — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:31:42 +0000

Madison,

Thank you for your e-mail and to answer your question the only color possibilities would be sorrel/chestnut, red roan, red dun or red dun/roan.

Lisa Covey
Equine Color Speicalist

By: madison westbrook

madison westbrook — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:46:55 +0000

So if you breed a red roan stud with his parents being a bay and black,and a red dun mare with her parents being both red duns what color would the colt most likely be?

By: Lisa Covey

Lisa Covey — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:29:15 +0000

Christine,

Thank you for your e-mail and to answer your question when submitting her application you may include photos of her. Go ahead and leave her color choice blank and it will be sent to a color specialist to be reviewed.

Lisa Covey
Equine Color Speicalist

By: christine simoneau

christine simoneau — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:34:09 +0000

I have the ugliest filly on the planet! She is a palomino and was off white when she was born. Her Dam is black with a red gene and her sneaky sire was a cremello pony. I named her Dolce’ but she is anything but “sweet”. Dolce’ is 1yr old now and finally halter broke. and as she sheds she is gold, cinnamon, black all swirled into one with a flaxen mane and tail. I would love to send pictures to anybody who might have a clue, I suppose she has the the sooty gene but she looks merle. If she had been the color of her legs (a cinn. red/brown) I think she would nave been pretty but that goes to her belly and stopps and the the swerl takes over, and her temper is allmost as bad, it has taken all this time just to get her to lead! She is coming around, slowly, but I had hoped to sell her. Well she is a horse of a different color!

By: Dana

Dana — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:32:29 +0000

I have a dapple gray mare with a dorsal stripe with a few red hairs. I know she has dun, palamino, and buckskin in her lineage. If bred to a Perlino stud would the chances of something other than gray be better than a Red Roan stud?

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:09:15 +0000

Hello,

My 4 year old mare looks like a brown based dun.
Her Dam was a grey mare that was born bay. dam’s dam is grey born bay.
The sire is a bay with both parents and grandparents bays and duns.

I know that greys can throw 50% grey and 50% color but does the color stay color their whole lives?

My horse has shown no signs of greying at age 4, but could she start the process at any age?

Thanks,

Kelsey

By: Holley Theiler

Holley Theiler — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:39:38 +0000

I have a tri color (red, white and black)Tennessee Walker mare that is bred to a palomino Quarter horse stallion. Any ideas on what color foal I may get.?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:14:29 +0000

Dear Lisa,
I have a stallion that I think is a sorrel color and a mare you is white. I don’t think it’s cremello because it is Very White!
I can happily say that she’s pregnant with twins! I hope to know in advance what color coats the foals will most likely have (and less likely have).
Thank you so much,
Sarah.

By: Newton

Newton — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:45:00 +0000

I have a buckskin mare. I want to breed her to either a buckskin or grulla stud. What could I expect from each

By: Lisa Covey

Lisa Covey — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:19:16 +0000

Kasi,

Thank you for your e-mail and to answer your question, without knowing the genetic background of the gray horses your possibilities are sorrel with about a 50% chance of turning gray.

Your second question regarding the paint horse patters and colors should be directed to The American Paint Horse Association.

Debbie Black or Lisa Covey
Equine Color Specialist

By: Kasi Terpening

Kasi Terpening — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:45:21 +0000

I have a 2 year old grey and white tovero mare, that I am wanting to breed to a buckskin overo. What are my likely chances there? I also have a solid dark grey mare out of a grey dam and sorrel stud, that I am wanting to breed to a sorrel stud. What are the color predictions there? Thanks!