Need Help with Flaxen Gene

[Kayaine]

So I want to breed the flaxen gene into my herd at some point, but I'm having a really hard time recognizing it. Can everyone give some examples of their flaxen horses, and if you know anything about how it works add that too? I.e. Does it get lighter or darker based on some known factor? ect..ect.. Thanks for any help in advance!

[Totina]

The flaxen gene is recessive so a horse needs to inherit two copies (one from each parent) in order to turn up as flaxen. The colour of the flaxen mane/tail is based on genetics. If you breed two horses with very light manes/tails the probability of the foal to inherit the same variant of flaxen is higher.

I don't know exactly which variants of flaxen (dark-light, red-white) are dominant over the other or if they are incomplete dominant (like if one parent has very dark flaxen and the other has very light and the foal ends up in the middle on the light/dark scale).

I have a few variants to show:

Pretty dark flaxen:



Very light flaxen:



Medium/light flaxen:



Very red/orange flaxen:

[KayaineII]

ping

Thanks Totina! So I borrowed your stud to do a little testing. So far, most of the foals I've had thrown favor the darker color of the parents. There are occasions though where a foal has favored the lighter color or turned darker. I plan to keep testing though.