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Gray Dam, Grey Sire = ? bay or grey foal ?

Adell June 04, 2009 February 22, 2011

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We had an other filly born at the barn over the last weekend. She is not like her full sister or brother. When they where born you could see they would be grey by the time they weaned (and they did go grey fast!) This filly is dark and it maybe wishful thinking but we don't see the grey signs. I am thinking just a really dark bay. Dam is a grey Arabian mare (Bint) and we are pretty sure she is chestnut under there. She has foaled out a chestnut colt from a chestnut stallion before. The colt didn't go grey. The sire is the grey Hano/CSH stallion. But we think he is bay under his grey. He sired a bay (not going grey) colt out of a bay mare. So did the filly beat the odds and is a bay, or do you see grey coming? [img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/AdellEquine/bints%20filly/IMG_23…] [img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/AdellEquine/bints%20filly/IMG_23…] [img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/AdellEquine/bints%20filly/IMG_23…] [img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/AdellEquine/bints%20filly/IMG_23…] [img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/AdellEquine/bints%20filly/IMG_23…] [img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/AdellEquine/bints%20filly/IMG_23…]

accphotography Thu, 06/04/2009 - 14:48

[quote="Heidi"]Well...[u]pre[/u]-ACC's "[i]which foal will gray[/i]" thread...I would have said GRAY. ...but now...? I just don't know.[/quote]

Ditto that. :BH I don't like myself anymore. :laugh1

I'm going to go out on a limb and say gray though. It really is more common than not when they start like this that they will gray. IF she's not gray, she's going to be seal brown.

Monsterpony Fri, 06/05/2009 - 10:58

I am not guessing on the foal color (ok, well I am leaning towards grey, but not at all sure). As to the parents, all you can say about the dam is that she carries one recessive extension gene (?e) based on producing a chestnut by a chestnut. You can't really guess anything on the stud if he produced a bay out of a bay mare.