My Lacey is a big sister...new colt... (new pics 06/06/09)

very nice bub!!! :D

he is dark for a grullo, but I cant tell if hes goin grey yet

Congrats - you simply can't tell yet, I know what you are getting at the darker blacks and bays and chestnuts at birth from a grey parent tend to be the ones to grey out but am not sure with a Grullo.

Congrats! More pics more pics!~

A friend just had a grulla filly born and she was SOOO dark that viewers thought she was a black and not dun at all... once she dried you could tell her legs were a shade or so lighter, but not much lighter. She is expected to lighten up until she is a nice silver blue color (just like her momma :love ).

As to this foal -- I don't know about the dark legs, but I would be suspicious about the grey goggle around the eyes. That indicates grey to me... ;)

Definitely looks gray.

CK are you sure it's not just countershading on your friend's foal?

I didn't think they were grey goggles, I thought they were camera glare ......does the foal have grey goggles?

I see grey, I think. Congratulations!

I think this one will go Grey.
He is well within the colour range for Grullo, but I do see Grey as well...just look at all those legs!!!! ;)

Grullo + gray :bday .

Congrats! I see grullo + grey.

[quote="accphotography"]Definitely looks gray.

CK are you sure it's not just countershading on your friend's foal?[/quote]

Ditto. Not saying he isnt gurllo, but I have seen gray make a foal have very extreme countershading many times so Im not jumping on the grulla band wagon just yet.

^I think ACC's question was directed to Critterkeeper and not the OP.

I see Black Dun + Grey for the foal- come to think of it....does the sire have two Grey parents?

I was thinking the same thing about the stallion's parent's, but Lacy isn't gray.

I think RMT meant she wasn't even confident the OP foal is grullo as gray can mimic dun.

[quote="Fledgesflight"]^I think ACC's question was directed to Critterkeeper and not the OP.

I see Black Dun + Grey for the foal- come to think of it....does the sire have two Grey parents?[/quote]

[color=#8000BF][b]No the sire's dam was a bay & the sire was gray + dun or grullo + roan

Let me find the info on the sire's sire
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[color=#8000BF][b]Here's Sneeker's sire Six Adams
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And here's the sire's sire Flying X 6
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[color=#8000BF][b]Ok here are some new pics of the lil guy.[/b][/color]
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This is the foals sire? Was he from frozen semen?

Definitely grullo. I'm suspecting gray at this point.

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This is the foals sire? Was he from frozen semen?[/quote]

[color=#8000BF][b]No he's the sire of the sire
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Pamela, Ahh Ok gotcha.

What makes those of you that see gray think he's gray?

[color=#8000BF][b]He is/was a little contracted, 45in tall at birth.
I tell ya Solano (the dam) [u]always[/u] has [i]HUGE[/i] babies!![/b][/color]

The fact that his legs (at least the lower parts) are black black as opposed to mousy. Here is a typical grullo not going gray:

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Streaks lower legs were even darker than this foals when he was born. He has roan though...no gray.

Nope ACC, not counter shading - Comes from a LONG line of grulla duns. :love Both sire and dam are georgous although the sire is somewhat darker than the dam (they have textbook markings and tested through UC Davis).

The foal lightened up considerable by day 3 (once she actually dried off completely). I would love to have her, but she is SSOO far out of my price range that it would just be a pipe dream... :drool I draw the line at paying more for a foal than my husband's truck...
:BH

ACC, I would suspect that foal you posted as being dunskin as apposed to a grulla. I have seen several newborns just this past month (4 actual births) and they were ALL way darker that that foal. :flower

[quote="critterkeeper"]ACC, I would suspect that foal you posted as being dunskin as apposed to a grulla. I have seen several newborns just this past month (4 actual births) and they were ALL way darker that that foal. :flower[/quote]

Well he isnt just a grulla hes a smoky grulla.

EE-aa-Ccr-DD

[color=#8000BF][b]Ok here are some new pics of Bo (Lacey's brother). They arrived in TX today all the way from Iowa.

Still think he may go gray? (I know I sure think he will)

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hes lovley, I think grey as well

I think I may have changed my mind. I'm leaning to not gray at the moment.

[quote="accphotography"]I think I may have changed my mind. I'm leaning to not gray at the moment.[/quote]

[color=#8000BF][b]Ok, do explain as to maybe why NOT!!
I tell ya Sneeker's foals do keep ya guessing cause of all the color possibilities they could be.
I really won't make a FINAL judgement till at least his 2yr old year. might know as early as his yearling year, but sometimes ya never know.[/b]
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