Colour and testing question

[anoki]

Wow....it's been a really long time since I have been on here. And I know how sick some people get of the same questions over and over again. I should have paid more attention to the discussions over the years that I would see about colour...but I didn't because I never needed to know with the minis I had at the time.
Now, I have a question regarding a foal that just arrived. His dam is palomino, his sire is smoky black.....baby looks bay. He can't be bay, am I correct?
And also, to go with this, what type of testing would prove what colour he is, if necessary (I've never done any colour testing before, so don't even know where to start)?

Thanks in advance

 

[Minimor]

Your foal could be bay if the palomino mom carries at least 1 dominant agouti gene. Sire would be E_aaCrcr. Then if the dam is eeA_Crcr, foal got E and a from dad and e and A from mom, and there is your bay.

 

[LostandFound]

Yes, bay is possible. But smoky black sometimes looks like dark bay.

 

[chandab]

Pictures?
You know you can't post baby arrival and not have pictures.

 

[anoki]

Pictures?
You know you can't post baby arrival and not have pictures.

I knew someone would ask for pictures
I posted from my computer, and baby pics were only on my phone.

~kathryn

 

[Maryann at MiniV]

Your adorable child does NOT look Bay, but Buckskin! And with what you describe the parents to be (can SEE the mum), it makes perfect sense.
In Layman's terms.... Buckskin shows the dilute (palomino), the black, and the agouti (bay) genes.

 

[LostandFound]

I would also be suspicious that he sheds out buckskin. Hard to tell from a picture with the baby color, but he looks really light for bay.

 

[Minimor]

Yes, he looks buckskin, not bay!

 

[Dragon Hill]

My guess is he will be a "sooty" buckskin. I call it the primitive pony color.

 

[anoki]

Ok this was exactly what I was wondering. I have never had buckskin (or bay) babies so really had no idea which it might be.
What tests would tell me, if I were to test?

~kathryn

 

[Cayuse]

I also say yes to the buckskin! My fav color. What a cutie