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Breeding For Color. Katy Parson. by. There are Four base colors. 1. Chestnut or Sorrel. Is a red horse of any shade. Most recessive color. 2. Black. Jet Black. Fading Black. non-fading black. and fading black. 3. Bay. reddish brown body. Black points on mane tail and lower legs.
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Breeding For Color Katy Parson by
1. Chestnut or Sorrel Is a red horse of any shade Most recessive color
2. Black Jet Black Fading Black non-fading black and fading black
3. Bay reddish brown body Black points on mane tail and lower legs Light Blood Mohogany
4. Brown Brown Shades of brown or black hair are spread over the body except in the soft parts, those areas around the muzzle, eyebrows, quarters, flank and girth which show a lighter color gradation. Seal Brown Brown
Dilute Colors Any color besides the four basic colors are considered modifications to the basic Chestnut, Black, Bay, and Brown. Examples: the palomino, buckskin, taffy, and dun are dilutions of the four basic colors. Cremello =dilution Dunning = dilution Taffy = dilution
Cremello and Perlino A double-dose of the dilution gene The Perlino has a darker, coffee-colored mane and tail A double dilution of the base colors bay, brown, black The Cremello has a white or ivory mane and tail A double dilution of the base color, chestnut.
The ideal Palomino is gold with a white mane and tail. But can be any shade of gold, sooty, or cream. Dilution of the chestnut gene. Palomino Golden Palomino Cream Palomino
Cream Buckskin Golden Buckskin A buckskin is a cremello dilution acting on bay, brown, or black. A buckskin may be cream, yellow, gold, sooty or off-black with black mane, legs, and tail.
Don't fall asleep yet. Silver Dapple
The Dunning Gene Four categories: Red, Yellow, Mouse, and Blue Prominent dorsal stripe, mask, and leg barring Dunning gene is dominant dunning gene lightens the body of the four base colors
Standard Yellow Dun (Left) represents the classic dorsal stripe and primitive barring. The yellow dun is often confused with buckskin because of the cream color. A dilution of the bay base color.
Red Dun There are several shades of red dun that are the result of a dilution of different shades of the chestnut base color.
Blue Dun or Grulla is the color black diluted has a black dorsal stripe, leg barring, shoulder stripe, and face mask Black mane and tail with dark legs
Blue Dun or Grulla Grulla can come a wide variety of colors: silver, slate gray, blue to faded blue black. As with many colors, the grulla is subject to change colors according to the season. These are pictures of the same mare. In the summer she is darker while with a winter coat she is less metallic looking.
Taffy third dilution affects only black pigmentation Taffy is dominant black is the best color for breeding the silver dapple deep red bay for breeding the red taffy Taffys come in Red, Blue, Silver dapple, chocolate and chestnut the Taffy gene is also synonymos with dapple
Red Taffy The red taffy has a reddish-orange body with a blonde mane and tail. The red taffy, or red dapple is an example of the dilution gene Z on the base color bay. Often mistaken for chestnut.
Silver Dapple Caused by the Z gene which dilutes black to a flat brown color, changes mane and tail to white. Shetland ponies are popular for this color. Striking are the cream or flaxen dapples on the sides.
Chocolate Flax, or Chocolate Taffy The chocolate flaxs’ (as they are known in the U.S) are the dark taffies that do not display the silver dapples. Chocolate flax is the taffy dilution gene working to make the body a dark chocolate color with a white mane and tail. Rocky Mountain Horses trace back to one chocolate flax sire. 30-40 percent of the breed is chocolate flax.
Grey is a dark skinned horse that progressively whitens with age. (They are not born grey) Grey is a pattern superimposed over other colors Grey is the result of a dominant gene that may mask all other colors Greys are never to be described as roans
Grey can vary Left shows the same horse at 1,2, and 8 years
Roan is white hair superimposed on the body but not on the head and legs Roan occurs over other colors ex: black, bay, and chestnut Unlike greys, roans are born with the roan color pattern
Bay Roan is white hair superimposed over the body of an otherwise bay horse
Blue Roan white hair over the top of black
Strawberry Roan white hairs superimposed on a chestnut
Broken Colors White patches in the horse are a result of underlying pink skin leaving the hair devoid of pigment. Broken colors are a color pattern that leaves white patches sabino tobiano overo
Tobiano White appears to spread vertically down from the spine, and upwards from four white legs. Heads are marked normally black tobiano chestnut tobiano
Sabino Dominant pattern of white patches which appear to run vertically up the legs underbelly and neck, accompanied by large ragged plashes spots, and ticking. The head will have a large blaze an chinspot. Frequently confused with overo and roan.
Overo Overo is a white hair pattern that unlike tobiano does not cross the topline. Instead, they appear to begin at the belly and spread upward. White legs are not as common in the overo as they are in the tobiano, and there is often a great deal of white on the face.
. Spotted horses come in many forms and breeds Leopard Appaloosa
Varnish roan mare with Blanket Appaloosa foal Varnish Roan Appaloosa
