This message is from: "carl nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Peg, you seem to know lot's on this subject--what if you have a brown mare --sire is grey, her mother is brown and you breed her to a brown stallion who also has a grey sire and a brown mother--what chances do you have of getting a grey???? thanks randi
----- Original Message ----- From: "Knutsen Fjord Farm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <fjordhorse@ANGUS.MYSTERY.COM> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:15 PM Subject: coats, more DNA > This message is from: "Knutsen Fjord Farm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Our Silka and her son, Sonny, of Anvil Acres heritage, are both shagging up. > All the others are still prettly slick. Also, the greys seem to stay a > little softer/slicker than the browns. > > Lauren, again, [sorry I didn't read all the way through the digest before I > replied], yes, the grey does have to come from both sides. It can be > unexpressed [recessive] in one of the parents, however, and so they will be > another color than grey. When folks are hoping for a grey foal from their > brown dun mare bred to MVF Fatso, I always look back in the mare's pedigree > to see whether there is any grey there. > > If she has thrown a grey foal before, that also is good information, and > means that there is a 50-50 chance of getting a grey, depending on whether > she passes on the dominant [her coat color] or recessive [grey] gene. Sorry > if this sounds addled, but it's late and I'm still feeling the jet lag from > the 3-hour time difference between the East coast and here. > > Peg > > Peg Knutsen - Ellensburg, WA > http://www.eburg.com/~kffjord/
