What color and kind of foal will I get?

Question

If I bred this mare, http://spotted.horsecity.com/pages/big_photo.php?mm=1538426&gallery=302023 , she's the one on the left.

To this stallion, http://spotted.horsecity.com/pages/big_photo.php?mm=1485578&gallery=302023 , He's the one on the right. What would I get?

Answer 1

a pony.

Answer 2

You may get a black tobiano. The stud could possibly be homozygous for the black gene. I don't see any ink spots on him so he may not be homozygous for the paint gene. The mare looks like she is a dark chestnut to me. So either way you would get a black or sorrel/chestnut out of the pair, with or without paint markings.

Answer 3

Very funny Amy S- I would probably say it would be either a brown or a black and white paint.

Btw, just pray you don't get a stubborn foal that sticks out his tongue lol.

Answer 4

If you go to this site (http://www.animalgenetics.us/CCalculator... there is a color coat calculator. All you have to do is enter the sire and dams colors and it will give you the percentages of what chance you have at what. I have used it with my mare but she is still with foal. So I can't guarantee it is accurate. But I would trust it.

Answer 5

lol, love the face shes pulling!

It depends really, you stand a chance of getting a skewballed or a solid dark bay but it depends on what colours would come out in the foal.

Foals usaully take on the characteristics of both grandparents so say for example if the stallion's mother and fater were both pieballed, and the mares mother was grey and her father was bay, the foal would most likely come out skewballed because the coloured would be the dominant gene and the grandfather was bay see where im comming form?

thats hwat i have found anyway but who knows, you could end up with anything. a nice suprise i think.

Answer 6

You may get a chestnut paint. We bred two horses with the mare looked like your stud and the stud looked like your mare (without the tounge sticking out ha) and that's what we got.

Answer 7

Well... I don't know much about breeding, but I do know that the people who will be able to answer your question can't tell you much without a good conformation shot of both horses. You want a picture where the horse is standing up straight, ideally with feet positioned squarely, and dead on from the side. Like... this: http://horseracing.about.com/library/gra...

Also, I know that pictures straight-on from the front and back can also be useful in determining certain things, but having just a front facing photo of the mare and just a slanted-ish photo of the stallion won't really help you out.

Edit: At least, they won't be able to tell you want kind of foal. Only what color. (:

Answer 8

A big fat cranky paint pony that sticks its tongue out at you?? hehe

The baby next to the mare is super cute though - why not just take him?!?

Answer 9

You would probably get a brown and white pinto, maybe a black and brown and white pinto. You could also get a chestnut. But it would be a cute foal.