Pinto ???

[TPs flat rock acres]

Is there any hints that a horse might have that leads one to believe they will always produce pintos besides the test. i know the test is the way to go and will do that... anyone have the link for the testing?? hoping my little colt I had will be a producer of color.

 

[Mona]

In order to be homozygous for a pinto pattern, it must come from TWO pinto parents also carrying the same gene. Two tobianos, or 2 sabinos, or 2 splashed white. Two frame will result in a LWO and will die shortly after birth. If you have mixed patterns, it will increase the chance of more color patterns, but they cannot be homozygous unless both parents carry the same gene be be doubled up on. They say a tobiano often has "paw prints", which are small spots of colorm within the main white areas, but many horses have them and are not homozygous as well. As for Splashed White, I guess homozygous, Not sure on Sabino, but I think if homozygous, again, the horse would be mainly white.

 

[TPs flat rock acres]

Oh ok. so this colt will be iffy if he produces pintos since mom is a dun/grulla and sire med. hat?

 

[Becky]

If the dam of your colt is solid, with no pinto patterns and the sire is pinto, then your colt would be heterozygous for the pinto pattern he inherited. If used for breeding, then he will pass along pinto 50% of the time. If he's bred to another pinto, as Mona explained, then your chances of producing pinto increases.

Here's the link for Animal Genetics in FL. It's the lab many of us use for color testing. http://www.animalgenetics.us/Equine.asp

 

[TPs flat rock acres]

ahh ok thank you to both so no reason to test lol