horsy1050 wrote:The Royal Mirage wrote:Okay, so I have a bit of a question for those of you more knowledgeable than I am about breedings: if I ask for the base of one parent, does that request automatically include mane colour as well? Like, say the sire is solid black, and the dam is flaxen chestnut. If I ask for the dam's base, will that mean chestnut flaxen, or just chestnut base?
Genetically a black horse cannot be flaxen, Flaxen only works on a chestnut base. A different gene causes a white mane in Black and bays, the silver gene, which doesn't affect chestnut.
I think I may not have been very clear with this question - I know that black horses can't be flaxen, and chestnut horses can't be silver, it wasn't a genetics question ^^'
What I was wondering is, if one of the parents
is a silver or a flaxen, do I have to specifically request it for it to be passed on? Or will the foal have it if I ask for the base of the parent who has it?
Ex: I'd like to breed WME1 and WME2 together - WME1 is a bay, and WME2 is a silver bay. If I ask for the base of WME2, will the foal come out silver bay? Or do I have to ask for WME2's base AND silver?