What color is this gonna be/horse

[onthespot]

another vote for roan. Babies that are going to grey out usually start around their eyes. Even at the very first baby hair loss around the eyes, you will almost always see white hairs sprouting around the eyes, sometimes even eyelashes before they are a few months old. Roans generally keep the dark colored head of the "birth color" as well as below the knees, mane and tail, ear tips. This foal is sorta middle of the road though. Too much grey on the legs for most roans, too little grey on the face for most greys. Could it possibly be both? A blue roan that is greying out?

Edit to add, here's a link to a video of a blue roan quarter horse stallion.

 

[Jetiki]

there is grey in the legs, he's more than likely going to go grey. To be a roan, he has to have a roan parent and a dark head and legs.


Karen

 

[lil'turkeymama]

Thanks for the replies. I made new pictures of him today to compare with.He just turned 3 years old.Can't get my camera and computer to cooperate today.LOL.I'll get it figured out in alittle while.

I figured I would give you some of his background.He really is just a mutt.His dam is a red roan born from a grey TWH bred to a very red POA-type horse.His sire is a buckskin born to a grey TWH bred to a buckskin mustang.His dam was born bright red with grey around her eyes.She is now a very light almost white with a reddish mane and tail and the same coloring on her legs.His sire was born buckskin and has remained the same.I have 9 horses at this time and 5 are from my first horse,a grey TWH ,Trixie.I got her when she was 5 and lost her 2 years ago at the age of 31.She was black when I got her and time she was 10 she had greyed.Some years she was more flea-bitten and some years she was a nice dapple.Greatest horse ever.The folks she came from said they couldn't ride her when they beat her.The lady had a broken arm at the time from a fall from her.Wasn't that great for a beginner to start with?LOL.I took to riding her all the time and we got along great.She didn't like being hit or handed rough.I didn't hit her or treat her rough.I was gentle with her and she to me.I am hoping this young fellow will keep being nice,too.I haven't started to ride him yet but he's been handled since birth along with his half-brother Junior,a bay paint.I have got to work on getting some pics up.Juniors dam was to be my black and white but now shes almost totally white.Oh and before I forget,this young grey/roan fellow still needs a name.Nothing has ever really stuck for him yet.

 

[welsummerchicks]

Mocha

 

[verthandi]

If I am following your post correctly the dam is a red roan color with gray around the eyes. I would say she is carrying the appaloosa coloring from her POA sire. The grey from the grand dam would have shown up by now and be changing her coat to grey then white. Your colt's sire is Buckskin. He has a cream gene from his sire. The grey gene will not skip a generation to your colt. If his sire(the buckskin) did not turn grey, it was not passed on to him by the grey TWH. So what you are seeing on the colt is either a roan pattern from the dam, but I more think that it might be the appaloosa pattern instead. They are like having a different colored horse for every season. They have a tendency to keep some dark on their face and legs, where a grey will go white or flea bitten over time.

There is also a chance that the cream color from the sire is playing games and lightening the base color of the colt. So a possibility is a smokey black base coat with appaloosa on the top. Roan and appaloosa can be tricky to tell apart sometimes.

I hope I got the sire/dams in the right order. But it will not effect the outcome. If you don't see grey in the foal as it matures the gene to cause grey is not there and will not skip a generation.

 

[lil'turkeymama]

I found this pic of him and his dam the day he was born.He is totally black.No white star,foot anything.His eyelid hairs are black.I was hoping he would favor the grayish/black points where his dam has reddish brown points.I still can't get the new pics up.His face is gray now.But he is still dark on the legs and mane and tail.I've have a black and white that faded to kinda blue and then just grayed.I think hes gonna gray out but I'm really just guessing.

Is "Mocha" like coffee?lol.I don't know.
The other horses names are'
Flash,spotted twh mare
Gray,red roan mare
Buck,buckskin stud
Tatunka,bay blanket app,gelding
Crazy Horse,black/white shetland,gelding
Honcho,great big bay quarter horse gelding
Junior,bay paint saddle horse,stud
? /gray saddle mutt,stud
? /freeie paint quarter horse colt

I've been calling him black horse.lol.That probably wont work if he turns gray.

 

[verthandi]

Now, I'm lost. Is that the the red roan mare? She sure looking like she is going grey? How old is she? If she is going grey, you can void everything I wrote above

 

[geebs]

grey baby.... Born black... gray out in time and gray is dominant.

 

[lil'turkeymama]

I got his pics to load

 

[verthandi]

Grey