How To Tell What Color Your Foal Will Be

The true color of a horse can only be determined easily in foals from breeds that have a narrow range of colors no more than four bay chestnut black and gray.

I am currently not accepting requests for color help and have been refunding most requests received this spring 2015. My schedule has allowed me very little free time and i need to reduce my responsibilities until i have a bit more free time. Blue roan roan over black. When born with a base color of sorrel gray foals generally have dark skin.

Any roan x any color. White hairs intermingled with black ones. Only resulting offspring will show the cremello gene as a palomino or buckskin foal. You can t really tell what the actual color will be until they shed out in their two year old year most of the time of course some horses grey out over the years and appaloosa s are a totally different story.

The most distinct changes from foal to adult are in horses that are dun champagne cream silver pearl and gray. If you have a chestnut in the mix run it once with heterozygous and once with non agouti to see what your chances are either way. It can also produce palomino foal if the cremello gene is present see palomino. Normal not graying sorrels are born with pink peach skin color usually.

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True roans are said to be born roan or to shed out to that color when they lose their foal coats rather than slowly progressing to it as with grays. Foals change color a lot over their first two years of life. Usa 3382 capital circle ne tallahassee fl 32308 usa. Inquire about your horse or foal s color.

However even in such cases there can be mistakes. When you breed any gray horse to a non gray horse you either have a 50 chance of the foal going gray or a 100 chance depending on the genetics of the gray parent no matter what the base color of the foal ends up. Black x black cross can produce black or sorrel chestnut foals. Foals can be born looking black or charcoal grey and these foals will eventually shed to black.

Sample variations on color. For the most basic colors such as sorrel or chestnut bay palomino or black guessing is fairly simple. Black pointed carrying red e parent unknown e e. Click here to see mature gray horses.

To make an educated guess on what color your foal will be you first must know the base colors of its parents. The dam was solid black you say. Often gray hairs can be seen near the eyeballs immediately or within a couple months of birth see photos above. Check the color cross chart to find the color possibilities for your foal.