Colour prediction please

[Helicopter]

I have a beautiful little bay mare who I purchased in foal to a golden palomino (with a black sire and palomino dam).

Three previous foals to this same stallion were all palomino (alas pale not golden like dad). Her last foal appears to be a black buckskin(?) but won't be sure until she loses her baby fur coat.

Mum is due in about a month and just for interest sake I'd like to know the odds of bay, palomino, black (like grandpa), buckskin or whatever. The mares parents were bay and chestnut.

Really looking forward to your replies.

I'll try to post a photo........just because she is so darn cute.

 

[Miniv]

With all the black genes scattered in there, the possibility of buckskin is right up there, IMO.

But it's also a "crap-shoot" at this point.

 

[Brody]

Not sure if you have ever seen the coat color calculator online - but it is helpful (and addicting to look at odds of what coat you might get). Without plugging further details for agouti/silver dilution/ red factor for the sire and dam - I got the following results. If you know these details for the sire and dam you can get more exact results. Here is the link: http://www.animalgenetics.us/Equine/CCalculator1.asp Hope this helps

Offspring Color Probability

32.81% -​

Bay

32.81% -​

Buckskin

12.50% -​

Palomino

12.50% -​

Red (Chestnut/Sorrel)

4.69% -​

Smoky Black

4.69% -​

Black

 

[baltoist]

um....purple XD

 

[Helicopter]

Oh dear not much chance of a black then.

I'd be quite happy with a purple though.

 

[chandab]

Well, I bred my cremello mare to my black bay stallion, expected to get a buckskin foal. This is what I got...


Here's a bit better picture of his color:


Now, I know my mare carries silver (her dam was silver smokey black, but until this foal was born, I didn't know Bonny carried the silver).

Looking at the calculations before knowing the mare has silver, there is about a 50% chance this cross would give me buckskin.
Now that I know she carries silver, her chance of throwing buckskin drops to about 29%. Her chance of throwing the silver smoky black she had is less than 10%.

 

[Helicopter]

What a stunning foal. Mine will have legs about half as long as that beauty.