What color is my foal?

[butiwantedapony]

Foal is an odd color, wondering if he might end up going grey?

Mama is bay TB mare with some slight roaning. I am not sure if she has greys in her lineage.

Daddy is dark bay Sabino (primarily bay) KWPN.

Foal is currently 1 week old and is bay with a dorsal stripe and silver legs. Silver at base of tail. Black mane.

It didn’t cross my mind he would be anything by bay but several people said to me they think he will go grey.

Will he go bay? Grey? Some weird color I’ve never heard of?
https://www.facebook.com/anna.lunddetar/posts/872987030329

(Please note I wish mama was heavier - but she coliced for 3 straight days after foaling and I think looks alright despite it).

[ThreeWishes]

Bay, no chance of grey if neither parent is grey.

[butiwantedapony]

That’s what I thought… Thanks!

[shezabrazenmare]

Whatever color he turns out to be, he’ll still be cute. Nice looking foal and mare.

[MysticOakRanch]

[QUOTE=butiwantedapony;8679845]
Foal is currently 1 week old and is bay with a dorsal stripe and silver legs. Silver at base of tail. Black mane.

https://www.facebook.com/anna.lunddetar/posts/872987030329

.[/QUOTE]

Silver legs are very common - something about amniotic fluid “burns” back hair to a silver color - many black foals are born silver. My guess, when baby sheds out, the silver on the legs will be gone.

A bit of silver on the tail - both parents have colorful genetics. Sounds like your mare is Rabicano (slight roaning), and stallion is Sabino (which often also includes Rabicano). Coon tail is VERY common in both those color schemes - coon tail is just some white hairs around the top/base of the tail.

The countershading (dorsal stripe) is not that unusual in bay based colors - baby will probably keep that.

Baby looks like a normal bay, and based on your description, probably will show some Rabicano characteristics. Nice baby!

[JB]

@butiwantedapony;8679845

Mama is bay TB mare with some slight roaning. I am not sure if she has greys in her lineage.

If she’s not gray, then any gray in her pedigree is irrelevant

Daddy is dark bay Sabino (primarily bay) KWPN.

Also not gray, so foal cannot be gray (unless “daddy” isn’t daddy lol)

Foal is currently 1 week old and is bay with a dorsal stripe and silver legs. [/qutoe]
99.99% of bay-staying-bay foals are born like this

[quote]Silver at base of tail

Baby flaxen - also nearly ubiquitous

It didn’t cross my mind he would be anything by bay but several people said to me they think he will go grey.

Will he go bay? Grey? Some weird color I’ve never heard of?
https://www.facebook.com/anna.lunddetar/posts/872987030329

(Please note I wish mama was heavier - but she coliced for 3 straight days after foaling and I think looks alright despite it).

I can’t see the pics (FB issues) but everything about him sounds like “just” bay.

[JB]

Ok, pic finally came up - classic bay foal

And mom looks wonderful! I’ve seen mares looking bad without having colicked. She looks nice and healthy

[Daventry]

Agreed. Plain old bay foal.

[beowulf]

well, assuming the dad is Waterford, you can likely scratch off chestnut as a possibility - he hasn’t to date produced a chestnut to my knowledge. And considering neither parents are grey, that means the foal can’t be grey…

Which pretty much leaves bay as the only possibility if you consider the pedigree.

I wonder if he will have any white besides that RH? Very cute foal.

[JB]

I can’t see the RF well enough but of the 3 visible, only the RH is white.

[beowulf]

[QUOTE=JB;8680318]
I can’t see the RF well enough but of the 3 visible, only the RH is white.[/QUOTE]

That’s what I thought too. Can’t see his face, but his daddy is known for lots of white splash.

[JB]

He definitely does. From what I can see of this foal’s dam, she’s either got lots of white suppression genes going on, or just doesn’t carry much herself, so combine that with the foal being black-based, and the odds of lots of white were pretty small. On the only offspring page I could find, the foals with more white were out of dams with decent white, and the one with hardly any, also had a pretty solid dam.

That’s just a few representations there, but the pattern would still be pretty true, following white suppression. I wish all foals registered with a picture were required to be photo’d with their dams so we could see conformation and color

[butiwantedapony]

The foal has a star, a tiny snip, and a small white spot on his RF.

Cornell just had a Waterford baby with 4 whites and a blaze.

Daddy has never thrown a chestnut, that’s correct.