What color will the foal be?

Question

What do you get when you cross two white(gray horses)

Answer 1

grey is a dominant gene. anything crossed with a grey will turn grey eventually. it depends on the base color of the grey parents as to what color the foal will start but you WILL have a grey from this cross 100%! the foal will probably be born black or bay and will begin to grey out as it sheds its foal coat and will continue to lighten throughout it's life. foals don't take the look of the mare.. that's bull! foals take the look of whatever their genetic make-up is, regardless of whether or not the mare is the same color!

"No color is safe when Grey is present, as all horses that carry the Greying gene will end up a shade of grey or white. For this reason some breeders do not like to have mares or stallions in their breeding herd.

Grey is dominant, meaning, the horse must have at least one Grey parent to be Grey and if a horse has Grey it will be shown physically. Homozygous Greys do occur, the offspring of such horses will always go Grey."

http://www.equinecolor.com/grey.html

Answer 2

it will most likely be gray..

but if the bloodlines have some other colors, it could get one of those. it's kind of a random thing.

Answer 3

It could be anything still. Just because both sire and dam are gray does not mean they dont have color genes, So do a back ground check on what color their sires and dams were,

Answer 4

Since the same color was crossed together, it will most likely be a grey horse. But sometimes they can shock you. For in your future, use a Color Calculator. It's pretty accurate, but there can be surprises. I checked what a buckskin and a palomino (the colors of my horses dam and sire) would be predicted to breed. Black, which what my horse turned out to be, was predicted at 2.08%. So you can never be too sure.

Answer 5

Grey is not a true color per say, it is a color modifying gene. all greys have a base color underneath the grey. so to guess what color the foal will be you would need to know the base color of the parents. Now  regardless of base color it then has a chance to inherit the color modifying grey. so lets say both perents are chestnuts, your foal would be born chestnut. to determine the probability of greying you would need to know if the parents are single copy or double copy carriers of the grey gene. if either parent is a double copy carrier then regardless of base color your foal will turn grey. if they are both single copy carriers you have a 75% chance of getting a grey. also your foal will not be born greyed out- greys are born their base color and often times the only clue to their greying is a hint of grey aroung the eyes and muzzle (which may not show up noticably until the foal coat sheds).

Answer 6

some sort of grayish white color

Answer 7

i think that it will be born black. :) and then change to a steel grey.

Answer 8

you usually can't know until the foal is born.he cld hav the same color as his parents,but he cld also get the same coloring as his grandparents,great grandparents,and so on.it just depends on his genes.i had a foal who was liver chestnut,but both the sire and dam were bay.its a wait and c game!

Answer 9

umm..  the foal will be white gray also, generally the foal takes on the looks of mom!

Answer 10

there's no definite color.I once saw a case where the mother was a dapple grey and the father was black and the foal turned out sorrel:) it could have still turned out dapple grey. it can be born one color, but not necessarily stay that color.

hope i helped!!

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Answer 11

Gray is dominant over other colors.  If both horses are homozygous for gray, then the only possibility is to get a gray foal.

Now, if both the parents are heterozygous for gray (only have one gray gene each), then you have a 75% chance of gray, and the other 25% chance depends on what color the parents were born before they turned gray (gray is actually over a base coat of sorrel, bay, black, even palomino is possible).

I can't tell you exactly without knowing more about the parents, but your best chance is a gray foal.  It will be born a different color, then turn gray after it sheds and ages.

As the foal gets older, it will gradually turn a lighter and lighter gray.

Answer 12

most likely it will be grey

Answer 13

OVIOUSLY GREY!