Stable Genetics Help

[Fwuffly]

I spent several hours the other day trying to work out horse genetics and came up with a few questions I could not find the answer to or could not find the answer to in a way I could understand so I am looking for some genetics wizards to help me!

Some of you may know that I am trying to breed Palominos and my first question is about Palominos,

The Agouti gene - I believe that it is not visable in Palominos as they have a red base.  However it looks like they can carry Agouti genes, is that right?  If so what colour would be best to breed a palomino to to discover if they carry this gene?

Second is about markings.  I have a foal who was the result of a appy x tobiano breed.  Is it therefore possible for him to carry tobiano?  Is it possible that a visable appy may carry the overo gene or can a horse only show 1 form of white marking.

Also I had my first attempt at working out the genetics on one of my horses how close was I to getting it right?



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She has had one foal:  Whos father was Silvanons Copper (Chestnut Tobiano)



I am guessing i need to test breed her a couple of more times to confirm she is homozygous Appaloosa

[Lectral]

Rav will have to answer the one about the specific genes, as she is the only one who knows those for sure

But for the palomino and agouti, I think the best choice to breed her to to find out would be a black stud.  Then he wouldn't have an agouti gene, and if the foal was bay or buckskin, you would know she does carry agouti

As for tobiano, I believe it is a dominant gene, so if the foal had gotten tobiano, it would show.  Horses can definitely show more than one type of white marking; there are several pintaloosas running around The Stable already. 

Not sure on the overo part - Independence doesn't look like she is showing it, unless she has sabino (she looks like she might), Copper doesn't look like he has any, and Eagle doesn't either, so I would say overo is unlikely.  But again, Ravvana would be able to confirm or deny XD

[Fwuffly]

Thanks Lectral thats a help for the agouti gene query - I'm not sure if I worded the question on my guess at her genetics correctly.  I'm sure Rav will never let it slip exactly what each horse carries but I had a best guess at them.  Is there anything visably missed either in the mare herself or her foal?

Im not even sure what sabino is!  I guess I will need to go and read up on that now as well *chuckles*

[Lectral]

sabino is the high whites on the legs and usually significant face white (though, sometimes only a chin spot), often with a little white on the belly - a really good example is the budweiser clydesdales, if you do an image search for them

I don't see anything missed in the genes, but I also don't know the actually gene code very well - I know how they work, just don't pay a ton of attention to the code strings XD