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So this may be a silly question but how do you get a blue roan? I have a bay roan (?) TB/Connemara. What could she produce?[/QUOTE]
Since you have the Roan in the pictures, that gives you at least a 50/50 shot at getting Roan. If the stallion is also Roan, it increases to 75%. There are some lines that have produced homozygous Roans (ie the Hancock line) which would, obviously, guarantee Roan.
Getting the “blue” (which is really black) roan is harder. Since you have bay, you’re already at, at most, a 50/50 shot of a black horse. If your mare is homozygous for “bay” (ie homozygous Agouti) then she can never produce a black horse, so no black roan.
As of now, a bay roan can produce anything except for a double dilute. She can contribute to black, bay, or chestnut (assuming her genetics are right), and to Roan in any of those colors. Everything else is up to the stallion.
Whether or not she is not able to produce a certain color will depend on her. If she’s homozygous black, she can never produce anything red-based. Homzoygous Agouti means nothing black (or variations thereof)
). Maude was a difficult case as far as breeding and if she were to ever produce another foal it would have to be via ET or oocite transfer. She is now 19 and even if she could carry another foal to term I wouldn’t risk it. Unfortunately, I can’t afford to do either or there would be more little Maudes around. Maude’s dam is “gray born bay” on her papers, but in actuality she would have been a roan which the gray masked. Maude (Limaude II) is the 13th and last foal out of Limaude who had all fillys. There was 1 or 2 other roans out of those 13. My Maude’s sire is Cabochon who was a chestnut. Very complicated. That said, I would love a blue roan. I drool over the Hancocks and Valentines.
Such a pity she’s not had more foals.