She is negative on all the 5 panel, great news but what I expected. I also had her colour tested for the silver gene as well as red/black. She does carry the silver gene- again, what I expected, and she carries one copy of red and one black. Since she is a buckskin (now definitely a sliver buckskin!) she carries at least Aa (heterozygous) for agouti and the cream gene. Agouti is the gene that limits black to the points such as ears, legs and mane and tail. Bays are the usual example, and buckskin is bay with one cream dilution. so- she can pretty well have any colour of foal under the rainbow depending on who she is bred to.
Because of her age, I am thinking I will breed her to a silver bay that I know of- here is a photo of him:
Not my photo, I think it's a cell phone photo. Most people would consider this to be a palomino, but he is tested silver bay.
There is a good possibility that she could throw a homozygous silver foal. IF we can get her in foal! After that, she will become Beamer's pasture mate; I'm not sure at what age mares stop coming into heat- I'm sure it's different with each mare- so if I can get a nice filly from her, she could be a candidate to breed to Beamer. If it's a colt it will be sold, and silvers do bring a good price.
Loretta is looking very healthy- here is a video I took this evening.
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How old is she? That Disco mare of mine was 18 when she foaled and if I tried I'm sure I coulda got her in foal again she didn't have any trouble ever before.
I'm not a fan of the silvers but I think everyone else is haha. Same with Palominos and the pearl/champagne gene, and the creamellos and perlinos are my least favorite.
Loretta is 22.Her last foal she was 18.
interesting, I sent off for Phoenix and Cactus 5 panel and also color and pattern.Phoenix I doubt has any surprises but I am pretty sure Cactus might come back a s a silver dapple and not a palomino as he is presenting as. We have had some surprises from him over the years that leads me to believe this
Interesting Sherry! Coat colour genetics is almost a crap shoot sometimes.
Coat color genetics are so interesting!
Yep, I would have called the stud a palomino - but DNA doesn't lie. Cierra's breeder, and another local color breeder friend of ours, are equine color genetic walking encyclopedias. It's all greek to me, the more they talk, the faster the letters fly and my head spins! It is interesting tho.
That's a handsome stud. I would have also thought palomino. My daughter's horse had a bay dam and a buckskin stud, and she's palomino, but what you'd call dirty--or sooty--in early spring that gets more golden as summer progresses. Definitely some bay coming out, I would think.
Never heard of that color. Fingers crossed!
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