chandab
Well-Known Member
I was going to stay out of this, but there needs to be some clarification... And, a great website for learning colors is: http://www.equinecolor.com/
There are two base colors; red (ee) and black (Ee or EE), black is dominant to red.
Two red-based horses can never produce a black-based foal (if you get a red foal, then someone didn't have the parents right or one was actually a silver bay misidentified as a sorrel, this misidentification happens often in minis).
Bay is created by agouti acting on black-base (agouti restricts black to the points; mane/tail and legs).
Often times buckskins and duns are misidentified; they are created by two different dilution genes (cream and dun), but often have similar color. And, to add to the confusion, both can be inherited so one horse has both dilution, which really changes the color.
All modifiers are independent of each other, so one horse can have any combination of color dilutions and modifiers, including all of them.
There are two base colors; red (ee) and black (Ee or EE), black is dominant to red.
Two red-based horses can never produce a black-based foal (if you get a red foal, then someone didn't have the parents right or one was actually a silver bay misidentified as a sorrel, this misidentification happens often in minis).
Bay is created by agouti acting on black-base (agouti restricts black to the points; mane/tail and legs).
Often times buckskins and duns are misidentified; they are created by two different dilution genes (cream and dun), but often have similar color. And, to add to the confusion, both can be inherited so one horse has both dilution, which really changes the color.
All modifiers are independent of each other, so one horse can have any combination of color dilutions and modifiers, including all of them.