Re: Re: Re: Amblin/Racking/what ever

["Kirsten Price" <splash@dakotacom.net>]

Buckskin Morgans are vastly more common that grays.  The reason there are
fewer buckskins than palominos is due to the predominance of the chestnut
recessive when it gets in there.  Lots of bays and buckskins (buckskin is
just bay with a single dilution gene, palomino is just chestnut with a
single dilution gene) also carry a single recessive chestnut gene.... which
means that they are a chestnut "carrier" but it is not expressed. That's why
you can breed two bays and often get a chestnut offspring.  However, if you
breed a chestnut to a bay, you have a greater chance of getting chestnut if
the bay is also a carrier.

The reason I mention this is that if you want a buckskin Morab... you have a
better chance breeding a buckskin to a bay than a palomino to a bay.  It's
even better odds if you can find a bay who is not a chestnut carrier.  They
will always produce a bay (or buckskin).

Kirsten



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From: maggie <maggisar@bright.net>
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Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 7:21 PM
Subject: RC: Re: Re: Amblin/Racking/what ever


> Yes, for awhile, palomino Morgans were very popular. Hard to breed for,
but
> you know how that goes! Buckskin is uncommon in the Morgan, but they pop
up
> every once in awhile-somewhat more often than grey Morgans, I think.
>
> The Morgan Horse Magazine did an article several years ago about rare
colors
> in the breed. Anything but pinto.
>
> I would like to see a Palomino Morgan crossed with a bay Arab. A buckskin
> Morab would be beautiful, wouldn't it?
>
> Maggie Fleming
> Under a Shooting Star Farm
> Ol' Bubba--I'm a Morgan!
> Secret--Yeah, but you are a dead-common bay!
> Brent--Maggie's been watching too much BBC!
>
> > Are there palomino Morgans? The crossing of a dark bay (the basic morgan
> > dark bay color) to a palomino can result in a buckskin. That's the way
> > most buckskin walking horses orginate - there that or breeding the
> > buckskin to a dark bay.
> >
> > Truman
>
>
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