Bay genes question

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Claudebot
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Bay genes question

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Can someone please explain how you can tell (or show with examples) when a horse is likely to be:

1. EE/Aa
2. Ee/Aa

I've been looking all over the web but can't figure it out...

Thanks!
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Claudebot
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Re: Bay genes question

Post by Kintara »

You can't tell by looking at them, only if they throw chestnuts or blacks you know they are heterozygous for one or the other
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Claudebot
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Re: Bay genes question

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Can you get a black foal from 2 bay parents?
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Re: Bay genes question

Post by Kintara »

Yes, if both are Aa
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Re: Bay genes question

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Tigress wrote:Can someone please explain how you can tell (or show with examples) when a horse is likely to be:

1. EE/Aa
2. Ee/Aa

I've been looking all over the web but can't figure it out...

Thanks!
You can tell a horse is Ee when the horse itself has a coat colour that's based on black (so black, bay, buckskin etc.) and one of its parents is a chestnut. It has to have inherited an e from there.

When a horse is bay but one of its parents is black, it has to carry an a. So it's Aa.
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