RESULTS ARE IN!! ANOTHER color prediction question!!

[eggbutt]

I’ve searched for the excellent threads on color but couldn’t find it! Just curious (and a little bit excited) about a breeding this year and what it might produce.

Our chestnut mare has been bred to:
a bay & produced a chestnut
same bay & produced a bay
a bay & produced a bay
a chestnut and produced a chestnut (no brainer)
a black & produced a black (still born at 8 months)

We’re breeding to Everdale this spring (black) & hoping for a black. Everdale has Lord Leatherdale and Negro in his background. The mare has lots of chestnut relatives.

So, what do you think? Will we finally get our black foal or more likely a bay?:winkgrin:

[Simkie]

Well, you don’t know the mare’s agouti status. She produced a black, so you know she’s got at least one non-agouti allele. Since all of her bay foals have been by bay stallions, she might have zero agouti alleles. Or she could have one.

Everdale’s dam is chestnut, which means he is Ee (carries the chestnut allele.)

So, you have 50% chance of a black-based foal and 50% chance of a chestnut-based foal.

If your mare DOES NOT carry any agouti allele, then you have 50% chance of black and 50% chance of chestnut.

If your mare DOES have an agouti allele, then you have 25% chance of black, 25% chance of some sort of bay and 50% chance of chestnut.

You can test for agouti, if you’d like to nail it down.

[Loopy]

No idea but good luck with your black, I hope you get what you want Have you tried that colour calculator thats on the internet?

(This year we are expecting one to be born black and go grey, one not bothered but will probably be bay, and the last one we are wanting a black too)

[eggbutt]

Thank y’all! How would I go about getting her tested just for fun? Is is expensive? Regardlesss, the Everdale is quite exciting for this mare so even if it isn’t black, it will be loved and cherished.

[JB]

The chestnut mare’s chestnut relatives are irrelevant for this situation

Everdale is heterozygous for black, meaning you have a 50% chance at chestnut.

It’s unknown the mare’s Agouti status, though we know she’s not AA. At best she’s Aa, but could be aa.

If she’s aa, then you can’t get bay from Everdale, unless he’s really dark brown (though he does truly look black), in which case you could get another brown. If she’s aa and he is also aa, then it’s 50/50 chestnut or black.

If she’s Aa, then if her A is A (bay) or At (brown), then you have a 25% chance bay or brown, and the remaining 25% chance of black.

[Simkie]

[QUOTE=eggbutt;6859014]
Thank y’all! How would I go about getting her tested just for fun? Is is expensive? Regardlesss, the Everdale is quite exciting for this mare so even if it isn’t black, it will be loved and cherished.[/QUOTE]

Not expensive!

You can do it here: http://www.horsetesting.com/Equine.asp

Although they don’t do brown. JB, who has the test for At? I forget…

[eggbutt]

Dang, y’all are amazing. I wish I knew this as well as you do. Fascinating information for sure.

[eggbutt]

OK…great website but I have no idea what to ask for or test for! So many options. Would I just test for red/black factor, red/black factor agouiti combo or what would you suggest?

[Simkie]

You just need to test for agouti. You know the mare is ee (red factor) because she is chestnut. She cannot be anything else.

http://www.horsetesting.com/Agouti.htm

[JB]

Pet DNA Services of Arizona is the only place that tests for brown, and for horses, the brown test is the ONLY test they do

[Simkie]

Ah-ha. I could not turn them up in my googling at all!

(Wow, they’re pricy!)

Question for you, JB: if I have a horse that tested Aa through Animal Genetics, is it possible that she could be AAt? I ask purely for my own curiosity

[eggbutt]

Alrighty then…as I figure it, we have a 50% chance of a black, a 50% chance of a chestnut and a 50% chance of a dark bay. It’s easier to know it will NOT be grey! :lol:

[Simkie]

[QUOTE=eggbutt;6859377]
Alrighty then…as I figure it, we have a 50% chance of a black, a 50% chance of a chestnut and a 50% chance of a dark bay. It’s easier to know it will NOT be grey! :lol::D[/QUOTE]

Well, that adds up to 150%, which isn’t possible

If the mare has a “bay gene” then you have 50% chance of chestnut, 25% chance of black and 25% chance of bay.

If she doesn’t have a bay gene, then it’s 50/50 black/chestnut.

[DancingFoalFarms]

According to the calculator: 33.34% -Black 33.34% -Bay 33.33% -Chestnut

Animal Genetics offers testing too – reasonably priced. http://www.animalgenetics.us/Agouti.htm

Have fun!

[Simkie]

[QUOTE=DancingFoalFarms;6859397]
According to the calculator: 33.34% -Black 33.34% -Bay 33.33% -Chestnut
:)[/QUOTE]

Nope.

Let’s review our Punnett squares:

Sire: Eeaa (Black, carrying chestnut, no agouti)
Dam: eeaa (Chestnut, no agouti)
or
Dam: eeAa (Chestnut, one agouti)

Eeaa X eeaa=

50% Eeaa (black)
50% eeaa (chestnut)

Eeaa X eeAa=

25% EeAa (bay)
25% Eeaa (black)
25% eeaa (chestnut, not a bay carrier)
25% eeAa (chestnut, bay carrier)

But no matter what, you have 50% chance of a red-based foal (chestnut, in this case) and a 50% chance of a black-based foal (that 50% could be 100% black or 50/50 black/bay, depending on the dam’s bay status.)

[DancingFoalFarms]

Thank you for your clarification and the reminder to review my Punnett Squares. I was using the Animal Genetics color calculator: http://www.animalgenetics.us/ccalculator1.asp Since the OP noted some unknowns regarding which horse was a carrier of which gene, I specified the following:
Sire
Color: Black
Red Factor (Extension)
Unknown [selected for unknown]
Red Carrier (Ee)
Homozygous Black (EE)

Dam
Color: Chestnut/Sorrel
Agouti (Bay/Black)
Unknown [selected for unknown]
Non-Agouti (aa)
Heterozygous (Aa)
Homozygous Agouti (AA)

Silver Dilution
Non Silver Carrier
Heterozygous (nZ)
Homozygous Silver (ZZ)

Which produced the following:
Offspring Color Probability

33.34% -Black
33.34% -Bay
33.33% -Chestnut
With this genetic breakdown:
Details: All
Ee/Aa = 33.3350%
Ee/aa = 33.3350%
ee/Aa = 16.6650%
ee/aa = 16.6650%

[QUOTE=Simkie;6859413]
Nope.

Let’s review our Punnett squares:

Sire: Eeaa (Black, carrying chestnut, no agouti)
Dam: eeaa (Chestnut, no agouti)
or
Dam: eeAa (Chestnut, one agouti)

Eeaa X eeaa=

50% Eeaa (black)
50% eeaa (chestnut)

Eeaa X eeAa=

25% EeAa (bay)
25% Eeaa (black)
25% eeaa (chestnut, not a bay carrier)
25% eeAa (chestnut, bay carrier)

But no matter what, you have 50% chance of a red-based foal (chestnut, in this case) and a 50% chance of a black-based foal (that 50% could be 100% black or 50/50 black/bay, depending on the dam’s bay status.)[/QUOTE]

[Snowfox]

[QUOTE=Simkie;6859022]
Not expensive!

You can do it here: http://www.horsetesting.com/Equine.asp

Although they don’t do brown. JB, who has the test for At? I forget…[/QUOTE]

So what does the “grey test” test for?

[Simkie]

@DancingFoalFarms;6859433

Sire
Color: Black
Red Factor (Extension)
Unknown [selected for unknown]
Red Carrier (Ee)
Homozygous Black (EE)

The sire is black with a chestnut dam. Therefore, we know that he is Eeaa, which yields the results that I outlined above. Given what we know about the sire and the fact the mare is chestnut, there is absolutely no way that pairing can produce 33.3% red, 33.3% black and 33.3% bay. The only unknown here is the agouti status of the mare–either Aa, Ata, or aa.

@Snowfox;6859434

So what does the “grey test” test for?

Grey.

[ShannonD]

[QUOTE=Simkie;6859346]

Question for you, JB: if I have a horse that tested Aa through Animal Genetics, is it possible that she could be AAt? I ask purely for my own curiosity :)[/QUOTE]

Nope “At” tests as just plain old A with Animal Genetics/UC Davis/Any standard Agouti test. So does A+ (wild bay) as well. All three are versions of Agouti, and the standard Agouti test just tests for the presence of Agouti.

So it’s possible the mare could test as Ata rather than Aa with PetDNA… Unless she’s phenotypically bay, in which case she’s definitely Aa

DancingFoal, as Simkie said, there is no way possible that the foal has a 33.3333% chance of ANYTHING. It’s just not possible. The calculator is wrong. The foal has a 50% chance of being red based, period!

Me personally, I’m either looking at a 100% chance of brown or 75% brown/25% black. Mare is tested EE, and she’s brown, so EE At-. Her sire is registered as bay and has produced black offspring, so if he was truly bay, he was Aa, and could have only contributed his “a” to the mare. So most likely, without having her tested for Agouti, she’s EE Ata. Stallion is by a homozygous black (EE Ata as well) sire, and is brown himself. His dam is brown, out of two brown parents…she’s obviously Ee Ata as well as she’s produced both chestnut and black. Thus stallion could be EE AtAt, EE Ata, Ee AtAt, or Ee Ata. Interestingly, he had his first foal last year and I’m almost positive it was wild bay (out of a chestnut mare)…So, if wild bay is recessive to brown, that means the stallion MUST be Ata because that foal would have to be Ee A+a in order to be wild bay.

So you can often research enough to figure out the genetics. If you’re crazy at least

[JB]

[QUOTE=Simkie;6859346]

Question for you, JB: if I have a horse that tested Aa through Animal Genetics, is it possible that she could be AAt? I ask purely for my own curiosity :)[/QUOTE]

Nope - they all see either a or A, they just don’t see the At version of A (meaning, At is not an unseen alternative to a)

Aa through AG could be Ata, but never AAt. AA could be AA or AAt or AtAt, but whether it’s AAt or At? would be apparent in the phenotype.

Testing for brown is really only worth while in the case of a chestnut, or a bay who doesn’t have a black parent and your’e interested in whether he carries brown (because bay is dominant over brown).

If you’ve got a brown, you can just use the extension/agouti combo test to see zygosity of each, because as a brown, he can only be Ata or AtAt, so if he tests Aa or AA, you know what he actually is.