I have a horse color question?
Feb.19, 2010 in
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I had my Chestnut tobiano paint horse bred to a buckskin tobiano in june of 2006 and she had the foal in may of this year and the foal is looking to be a roan and wheni looked at the stallions page and looked at his foals ive noticed that none of his foals were roans. i was wonederine how is that possible
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February 19th, 2010 at 3:56 am
The milk man must have slipped into the barn.
February 19th, 2010 at 3:58 am
The Horse cheated.
DNA testing for paternity may help.
February 19th, 2010 at 4:35 am
You might need to check the stallion and your mare’s pedigree. One of them might carry a roan gene in them somewhere.
February 19th, 2010 at 5:14 am
easy your horse may have thrown the color, the male is not always perfect either, and roans do go grey or turn one color later. but genetics are not perfect no matter how much we want them to be
February 19th, 2010 at 5:19 am
get a dna test done. If you paid to have your mare bred to that stallion, and they screwed up, sew. :]
February 19th, 2010 at 6:02 am
it is rather possible for the offspring to look nothing like their parents. its biological. when two mammels breed, theres dominate traits and recessive traits in both parents. only dominate traits show up in appearance. theres a chance that the offspring horse recieve both recessive traits from its parents, therefore looking nothing like the parents.
February 19th, 2010 at 6:53 am
For a foal to be roan one of the parents must be roan.
There are a couple other possibilities though. Are the “roan” parts just in certain areas (namely the belly or flank)? It’s quite possible that either your mare or the stallion carry the gene for Rabicano or Sabino but you just don’t see it in them because of their tobiano markings covering it up. Both are often mistaken for roan and can be displayed very minimally, I would guess that it’s either your mare that carries it, or it just hasn’t been displayed prominently on the stallions other foals (or they didn’t get it at all.)
Here’s more information on the two:
http://equinecolor.com/rabicano.html
http://equinecolor.com/sabino.html
February 19th, 2010 at 7:52 am
look for sorrel or bay in the bloodline, that will probabl clarify, or the possibility is your baby is in camoflauge mode now, I have a liver chestnut stallion who bred my black mare and i had a lineback dun for 18 months then i had a black, some babys will change several times.