Silver Blue Roan Update! Yay!

Yup. Indeed he is! YAY!

I'm actually slightly less convinced he is Roan now!
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This is Willow, Silver Black. As you can see her lower legs are darker and she has the "solid" head. (The paler bit is her remaining winter coat)This is the one that, as a foal, I thought might be Roan, but is not.

He's adorable! For a true roan at least one parent has to be a roan.

I thought if both parents were roan and the foal takes roan from both it wouldnt survive?

That was found to be untrue Slaney. Except possibly in the Brabants.

It was actually never thought to be the case. It was thought that, and I still think statistics have proven that something is going on, that if the foal were H/Z for Roan the conceptus would fail to imbed and the mare would come back into heat.

[i]that if the foal were H/Z for Roan the conceptus would fail to imbed and the mare would come back into heat.[/i]

Ah, thats what I was thinking of... so its safer to only have one roan parent.

I cant see roan but Im no expert.. I do REALLY like this colt tho, such a pretty head too!!

Roan being homozygous lethal has been false. Except Brabants, which might be a different form of roan. Breeding two roans together will not result in embryonic death as there are known homozygous roans alive and well. There is no difference in safety between having one or two roan parents.

So when a roan foal is born, is the roaning on the body and not on the head very clear or does it develop over time?

Depends on the foal coat. Some you can see obvious roan; others don't show roan until shedding a coat or two.

Thanks Monster. :love

in my foals it takes about 2-3 weeks and then if you part the coat roan can be seen ,