> Jake,I have been breeding Arabians
> all my life.Just as anything elce
> in life the genes don't run true
> all the time. Today I own a red
> chestnut Arabian, both sire and
> Dam are Dark bays The dam side has
> alot of Grey and the sire produces
> mostly bays, out of 122 pure bred
> foals only 18 are chestnut.Weird
> Eh? The Dam who is a dark bay has
> a full blood sister who is a white
> grey.She will produce grey most of
> the time but because there is
> strong color up close she has
> produced color as well. Because I
> love the palamino color I also
> tried to breed that color. I
> wanted the intence color to be
> dark with no black smuttiness,
> White tails etc.. I found that the
> really dark red chestnuts or
> sorrels as they are called in some
> breeds do the best job of breeding
> true, to color. However I have
> also seen black mares breed good
> color and bred to a palamino I
> have seen them black mares produce
> a very red foal. The breeders
> cross back and forth from red to
> palamino and back.It is said that
> breeding a palomino to a red mare
> will get you a 4-1 palomino foal.
> Hope that helps alittle..
Also I forgot to share if you breed a palomino to a palomino you will get a cream colored foal they will lighten about 3% in color each time but you will never get the leatheal white gene. However if you breed back to a chestnut/sorrel at any time you will get a palomino.I understand that palomino runs on a yellow spectrum of color and bay on a red so the difference in colored foals,Palomino vrs, Buckskin.
Good Luck !!
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