Our 2nd and last foal for the year

[LittleValleyFarm]

Thanks Dona! Echo is a perlino and I don't think he carries silver. I think his (colt's) mane is diluted from the dun gene as Echo has dorsal stripe and leg barring and throws it. I think that's why his eyes are like that, kinda gray/blue.

Sarah!?!?

WOW....he's gorgeous Kim!

    Does his cremello sire carry silver as well?  That colt definitely looks like a Silver Buckskin!

 
CONGRATULATIONS on another great foal!!!!

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[Manyspots]

Congratulations on a nice one!

 

[LittleValleyFarm]

Does his cremello sire carry silver as well? That colt definitely looks like a Silver Buckskin

Actually his sire is pretty interesting genetically - he carries 2 black, 2 agouti and 2 creme genes and 1 dun. No silver - sire is a buckskin, dam is a buckskin dun.

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does that mean he is homozygous for buckskin with out being bred to a horse with non cream? Or if he was bred to a perlino or a cremello or a smokey cream he would be homozygous for a perlino?

-Gage-

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He will only produce buckskins with non-cream mares and perlinos with cream mares. Takes the guesswork right out of it!

 

[Mona]

Awww, he sure is cute! He looks so tiny next to his mama! His eyes look as though they will stay blue too! CONGRATULATIONS!

 

[Meavey]

Since his dam is chestnut she could carry silver.

He sure is pretty! Congrats.

 

[LittleValleyFarm]

Since his dam is chestnut she could carry silver.He sure is pretty! Congrats.

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Thanks! Nope, no silver in his dam either, her dam is black and her sire was bay so the colt can't be silver.

 

[Bluerocket]

cute foals! LOVELY mares!