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Chrome?
Most of my Black Forest Horses carry a gene which has them turn a complete silver-chrome colour around 9 years of age, seemingly regardless of their colour as foals. What is this called? I've got an example down below.
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Joined: Sat Jan 30, 2016 12:41 am Posts: 11159 Re: Chrome?
This is caused by the graying gene.Catato wrote:Most of my Black Forest Horses carry a gene which has them turn a complete silver-chrome colour around 9 years of age, seemingly regardless of their colour as foals. What is this called? I've got an example down below.
This mare is a gray over bay dun pangare with a blanket.
The gray gene is dominant, which means that you only need one for the graying to express on a horse. If you have it in 'most' of your herd, there's a better chance of having multiple horses with two gray genes, which means they will always throw a graying offspring.