Re: Surprise!...colors

["Claudia Provin" <provincmk@fanninelectric.com>]

I don't want to burst any bubbles---but have you checked the eyebrow hairs?
If there is even one white hair there--your baby is going to be a grey
(99.9% chance according to MY statistics (grin))--I had the same thing
happen--LOVELY black (mouse-colored at birth) filly---born from a mating of
two greys---now a lovely steel grey at two.
        Claudia

----- Original Message -----
From: Betsy See <beecsee@hotmail.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 11:48 AM
Subject: RC: Surprise!...colors


> Hi everyone!!  I told you all earlier this week that my mare had a healthy
> colt (Hakim), and I have discovered today that he is going to be BLACK!
> Now, the reason why this is so unusual is because both my mare and the
sire
> are grey......So, I would almost think that she got "mistakenly" bred by
the
> wrong stallion, except I was there the 3 times she was hand-bred.......
> The gal that owns the stallion came out today to see him, took one look
and
> said "you have definitely got yourself a black!"  He is that
mousey-looking
> color, but I thought his legs already looked like they were greying, but I
> guess I was wrong!!!  So he is going to be an awesome-colored horse,
having
> the 4 white socks, big star, and snip that runs from about 2-3 inches
above
> his nostril to under his chin....
> So, my question is:  How many of you have heard of a black coming out of 2
> grey's??  The stallion's sire was black, and his dam was grey.  My mare's
> sire was grey, and dam was sorrel (QH).  In my mare's background on the
arab
> side, she has no black, and I don't know her dam's bloodlines.  She must
> carry a black gene because she was born solid black, and didn't start
> greying out until she was 4.  I have a full sister to Hakim, and she was
> born bay, turned grey.  1/2 brother was born solid black (sire was black
> Morgan), and is turning grey, and 1/2 sister who is chestnut (from
chestnut
> stallion).
> The only horse I can think of off the top of my head that was black from
two
> grey's was Hillany Mistanny, but I would like to learn more about the
whole
> color-genetics thing!!!
> Betsy
> Hakim ("Wow, this is a wonderful world!")
> Babe ("Do you have to be so curious about EVERYTHING??!?")
> Majah ("When do I get to play with him?")
> Angie ("Yah, I want to play, too!")
>
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