porkchop48
Ridin' The Range
Some one at work today asked me and got my interest wondering...
What do you get if you breed a mini jack and a mini horse?
What do you get if you breed a mini jack and a mini horse?
What would come of the breeding?
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Straw Hat Kikos
The Kiko Cowboy
Doesn't a horse and a donkey make a mule? If so I would think that those would make a mini mule. hah idk
Bunnylady
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This is Betsy, my 32" mini mule. "First in my herd, and first in my heart".
Straw Hat Kikos
The Kiko Cowboy
hah Well there we go!!
Alice Acres
Ridin' The Range
Betsy is adorable!
TNBarnQueen
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I have a good question..... I bred my bay mare to my cremello stud. Now...by most all standards genetically she would only throw buckskins with him. Well...last year she threw a gorgeous Palomino. This year.....the foal was silver (His g-grandfather is WGC Silver Design). When he started shedding off his foal coat he turned buckskin....now...he is shedding off to his winter coat and has turned an almost chocolate color with fine flea-bit silver. I am clueless! Here is a pic of him.
5 days old
2 mo. old
Present- 5 mo. old
Any ideas....oh....he is for sale!
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5 days old
2 mo. old
Present- 5 mo. old
Any ideas....oh....he is for sale!
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Bunnylady
Herd Master
My horse color genetics are a bit rusty, so please, bear with me.
The Palomino is easily explained. A Cremello is a red horse with two cream dilution genes. Red is recessive to black, and though bay is a black-based color, you only need one black gene to produce it, so the mare is carrying a red gene that she clearly passed to that foal. Red from the dam, red from the sire (as that's the only thing he has to give) plus one cream gene from the sire and there you go, palomino.
If I were to try to name your current colt's color, I'd call him a smoky black, or maybe a smoky silver black(?). Your mare is a bay, which is a black horse with an agouti gene. Agouti is dominant, but the mare could be carrying a self gene as well. Since agouti really only affects the black pigment in the coat, you can't tell by looking if the cremello has agouti. What I see is black from the dam (and red from the sire, of course, though you can't see it), possibly self from both parents, and cream from the sire. On the other hand, he might be a very sooty buckskin - not all buckskins are golden.
The Palomino is easily explained. A Cremello is a red horse with two cream dilution genes. Red is recessive to black, and though bay is a black-based color, you only need one black gene to produce it, so the mare is carrying a red gene that she clearly passed to that foal. Red from the dam, red from the sire (as that's the only thing he has to give) plus one cream gene from the sire and there you go, palomino.
If I were to try to name your current colt's color, I'd call him a smoky black, or maybe a smoky silver black(?). Your mare is a bay, which is a black horse with an agouti gene. Agouti is dominant, but the mare could be carrying a self gene as well. Since agouti really only affects the black pigment in the coat, you can't tell by looking if the cremello has agouti. What I see is black from the dam (and red from the sire, of course, though you can't see it), possibly self from both parents, and cream from the sire. On the other hand, he might be a very sooty buckskin - not all buckskins are golden.
promiseacres
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Oakroot
Chillin' with the herd
Just to point out that the color calculator is not very accurate because there is no way for it to know the exact genetic make up of your horses. So it is a guess at best.
Just want to second Bunnylady's post. This colt could be smokey black or very dark buckskin. Once he gets is proper coat in you should know for sure.
Just want to second Bunnylady's post. This colt could be smokey black or very dark buckskin. Once he gets is proper coat in you should know for sure.
