Are you trying to breed for a black foal?

Question:

I am breeding my chestnut mare with a black stallion and have been looking for reliable indications of what the foal’s coat color will be. Apparently the stallion has only produced black, bay and liver chestnut foals. The stallion has only black and liver chestnut heritage from the research I have done.

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The most common coat color modifier makes bay horses.

Sunny Cide Jazz, owned by Tabatha Taylor of Amarillo, is a classic bay.

By Andrea Caudill

All horse colors are either black- or red-based, and all other colors are derivatives of these. The most common modifier is the agouti (ah-GOO-tee) gene. The Spanish-derived word comes from a South American rodent related to a guinea pig.

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