Re: RC: Surprise!...colors

["Nancy Mitts" <mitts_n@hotmail.com>]

Betsy,
Our black stallion has grey sire & dam.  The sire's sire was grey, granddam 
was chestnut & white pinto.
The dam was sired by the same grey stallion above out of a black mare.
Many of the other traits of this black mare are also expressed in our black 
stallion.
So far he has always produced grey out of a grey mare, out of a bay we have 
gotten black or bay, out of a chestnut we have gotten  bay &  black-bay, out 
of a brwn & paint we got another bwn & white paint.
The black foals have been born mouse color.
The ones that greyed out were bay or chestnut, only given away by a few grey 
hairs sprinkled in their eyelids.
Nancy Mitts

>From: "Betsy See" <beecsee@hotmail.com>
>To: ridecamp@endurance.net
>Subject: RC:  Surprise!...colors
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:48:38 PST
>
>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.......

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