Folks, we have a colt!

[lilnickers]

This little guy was born 2 weeks ago. He is so tiny! When he was delivered, all I saw was LEGS....and connected by this skinny little body! He has filled out quite a bit since birth.

He is a stinker, that's for sure. Colts are so much fun

His dam is a cremello(or perlino,not sure)and sire is a chestnut.The color calculater said buckskin or palamino.What makes it confusing is the dam's dam is a silver buckskin,so the silver gene could be showing...can anyone help me with his color?!

(He is the one on the right)

Don't mind my non-horsey husband playing with the other foal....lol.

 

[Songcatcher]

In the first picture I would have said Palomino. In the second, I would say most likely Silver Buckskin. Dark tips on the ears look Buckskin to me. Aslo, the second shows a little more shading in the mane and tail.

 

[Genie]

really sweet.....colours aren't my thing but he looks like a buckskin in the picture or maybe palomino

 

[Make A Wish Miniatures]

I had one born that color last year,she turned out to be a silver buckskin,much more obvious by the time she was a yearling. her sire was cremello and dam registered as chestnut but probably a silver chestnut. Whatever the color very nice colt.

 

[Songcatcher]

I had one born that color last year,she turned out to be a silver buckskin,much more obvious by the time she was a yearling. her sire was cremello and dam registered as chestnut but probably a silver chestnut. Whatever the color very nice colt.

Genetically impossible to get a Silver Buckskin from a Cremello and a Chestnut. Either the sire was a Perlino or the dam was a Silver Bay.

 

[stormy]

Silver could be hiding in either the cremello or the chestnut. Got a surprise myself this year, a lovely silver pinto filly out of what I thought was a chestnut pinto mare and sired by a blue roan!! The mares parents are visually chestnut pinto and black so that silver has been sneaking around for a while unnoticed!!

 

[lilnickers]

Songcatcher,I wasn't sure if your 2nd reply was pertaining to my foal or Make a Wish minis foal.

My foal is out of cremello X chestnut.

The dam(cremello)is out of silver buckskin X cremello.

The sire (chestnut) is out of black X bay.

I have never tested the dam,she could be perlino.

Does this help to determine what color this foal is?

(He also has a big dark patch on his rump top under the lighter hair.

 

[rabbitsfizz]

I am pretty sure this foal is Silver Buckskin, which means, of course, the dam must be Perlino, not Cremello as, as Freeland pointed out earlier, a Cremello X Chestnut can only have a Palomino, irrespective of what the Cremello's sire and dam are!

So the Silver was hiding in either the Chestnut or the Perlino........

Pretty foal, it would be worth testing.

 

[fancyappy]

no help on color I am afraid but have to tell you those are two extreeeeeemy adorable foals!!

 

[love_casper]

If the sire is from a black x bay, then the dam must be silver perlino, and you have yourself a very cute silver buckskin foal!!

Lots of people don't realize their double dilutes carry silver, as they are already so white it doesn't have much of an effect.

 

[Allure Ranch]

He's precious....

 

[lilnickers]

Thank you all for the compliments on my little guy, and a special thanks to Freeland,Jane,Genie,Alex for your color perspectives. I do think I understand it better now. It is very helpful to know that my cremello is actually a perlino(carrying silver)

So the colt is definitely a "silver buckskin"

Thank you, thank you, thank you

I just love the knowledge of the members of this forum !

One more baby to go, 325 days now. My first Kateland's baby

 

[Irish Hills Farm]

Congrats on your colt!