Flaxen is thought to be recessive. You have the greatest chance of flaxen if both parents are visibly flaxen. If you have black-based horses, they can still carry flaxen, it just doesn’t show on them
Here is an update on him. I got this photo from his owner (I sold him six months ago) and he said he is actually darker, but has sun bleached already this summer (lives in TX). So, maybe still going to be a liver? He is age 12 months.
Wow!
Liver is one of my all time favorite colors. I don’t have one that is flaxen though and it sure would ice the cake LOL. Every one of our mare’s foals have been some shade of liver chestnut so we are excited to watch this years filly develop and shed. She already has the dark rings and where she had a boo boo under her chin is is coming in almost black!! Her mane looks to be coming in with a mix of dark hair scattered with blonde/silvery colored hair. Here is a picture of mom and her chestnut foals from various years.
I hope your boy keeps his dark coat. He is very handsome and striking!!
Allanglos simply a fabulous yearling! Someone is very lucky to have this gorgeous animal!
Awesome colour! Flaxen liver is my all time favourite. I’ve never had one though. Actually I’ve yet to have a foal shed out liver OR flaxen. Closest I’ve come is a normal orange filly with a seriously multi-coloured tail. The top hairs are orange, the outer long hairs are dark burgundy red with a massive clump of very pale blonde growing from the end of the dock.
This thread has come at a great time - I was wondering what controls liver? Clearly having liver parent/s helps but it is not a must?
Highly, highly unlikely to get liver from 2 non-liver parents. I’m not sure I’ve seen it but I won’t swear it can’t happen.
Liver x liver is the best chance.
Liver x non-liver is next, or liver x very dark palomino
Once you get out of the red-based colors, then since you can’t see what would have affected red if red was present, then it’s much more up in the air. So you can still get liver from, say, 2 black parents, 2 bay, black x bay, etc.
His dam is a liver chestnut. I’ve attached photos of her. The last pic is the full brother to this colt at age 6 months.
Here is the sire of the two colts. All are purebred Arabians.
I like the liver/flaxen a lot, but I didn’t know if it could happen until this colt came along. So I bought a two year old filly to cross with the colt’s sire and later this colt. She is also a liver/flaxen. It will be interesting to see if she will have a red chestnut when bred to the liver colt. I don’t know if a liver x liver will make a red.
Here are her pics at age one and age 2. Her flaxen color is fading with age, unlike the others I have that are flaxen. But the stallion’s color sticks so I am hopeful her foals won’t fade. (The 2nd and 3rd pics are yearling photos before I got her).
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Liver is one of my all time favorite colors. I don’t have one that is flaxen though and it sure would ice the cake LOL. Every one of our mare’s foals have been some shade of liver chestnut so we are excited to watch this years filly develop and shed. She already has the dark rings and where she had a boo boo under her chin is is coming in almost black!! Her mane looks to be coming in with a mix of dark hair scattered with blonde/silvery colored hair. Here is a picture of mom and her chestnut foals from various years.
I hope your boy keeps his dark coat. He is very handsome and striking!![/QUOTE]
Love your mare! What breed? Her foals are very nice, too, especially with all the stockings. Are their sires the same or different stallions?
Nice horses!!! Question, what color was their body and mane/tail with their foal coat? Were they born flaxen or did it gradually become that way? Very pretty!
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Allanglos simply a fabulous yearling! Someone is very lucky to have this gorgeous animal![/QUOTE]
Thanks. I really didn’t want to sell him and did not have him advertised, but someone found him on my website and made an offer I couldn’t refuse. His dam is back in foal for 2013 for a full sibling. She is 15 this year so hopefully has many years of foals left in her:) She is by *Paarden and out of a *Serafix grandaughter.
Here is a yearling photo of *Paarden and one later at maturity.
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Nice horses!!! Question, what color was their body and mane/tail with their foal coat? Were they born flaxen or did it gradually become that way? Very pretty![/QUOTE]
They are born chestnut. But by age 10 days you can see the white roots coming in. By age 6 months their manes and tails are all white. The first pic of the mare touching noses with the foal is the flaxen/liver yearling colt. (If you look close at the photo, both mare and foal have the odd faint blaze below their star in the middle of their nose).
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Awesome colour! Flaxen liver is my all time favourite. I’ve never had one though. Actually I’ve yet to have a foal shed out liver OR flaxen. Closest I’ve come is a normal orange filly with a seriously multi-coloured tail. The top hairs are orange, the outer long hairs are dark burgundy red with a massive clump of very pale blonde growing from the end of the dock.
This thread has come at a great time - I was wondering what controls liver? Clearly having liver parent/s helps but it is not a must?[/QUOTE]
What color is her mane and forelock? I bet she would throw flaxen if bred to the right stallion.
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Thank you 
She is a full TB. The first 2 foals are both TB bred for the track both by the same TB stallion. The second two are both by Escapade (Hanoverian).
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Thank you She is a full TB. The first 2 foals are both TB bred for the track both by the same TB stallion. The second two are both by Escapade (Hanoverian).[/QUOTE]
Wow, she is really nice!
Wow, beautiful beautiful coloring on all of those horses:eek:
My three year old Quaterback colt has white flaxen mane and a light tail but he is copper penny red (he has that iridescent thing). I love flaxen too!
I have a mare in foal to Qredit by Quaterback. But she is a bay so probably won’t get a flaxen foal.
She is pictured below.
I did breed a mare to Quaterback, twice, but she didn’t take:( She was a liver chestnut with four high whites.
Allanglos - Qredit is a lovely lovely horse and your mare looks beautiful. I’ll bet you a dollar that foal will be hell pretty with tons of bling 
I forever seem to be whining about never getting exciting coloured foals, and madly coveting everyone elses, but then my starting proposition is nothing like that bay mare of yours!
