>As we know all gray foals are born either bay or chestnut (with occasional rare
>exception); thus gray are of two distinct varieties, having white hairs on a bay
>background or white hairs on a chestnut background.
Well, I don't know what it is like in other parts of the country but here in North
Dakota we have alot of Black Arabians. And when a black is born (when one of
the parents are gray) if the birth color is a mousy color the colt will shed out as a
black, but if the colt is born black it will be a gray.
I have a Black\Gray Arabain Stallion and he has thrown alot of bays but not one
of the bays turned gray. But of the blacks he has thrown 50% have turn gray.
I see more black backgounds on the grays then I see chestnut backgrounds
and I have seen even fewer with a bay backgound color. So around North
Dakota the black\gray Arabian is a common color and not at all the rare exception.
Also any young horse with at least one gray parent no matter what the color will turn gray if
that young horse received the dominant G gene from that gray parent.
And I agree with the one post who stated that it would be nice if everyone would
say where they are from to make things more interesting.
Lynette Helgeson
Diamond-H Ranch
>From chilly North Dakota at a whole 36 degrees F.
p.s. some of you are talking about getting out on rides already and we still have
snow and ice on the ground yet. At least we don't have summer temperatures of
110 - 120 degrees!