Which BYC member scares you?

[ShrekDawg]

Can he be both? Blue bay?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Can he be both? Blue bay?

 

[Chipmunk Chicks]

Can he be both? Blue bay?

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

I'm thinking that means no

 

[Bonkerelli]

 

[ShrekDawg]

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What???

 

[OneHappyDuckie]

Blue roan from the internet:
Notice how it doesn’t have the redish pigmentation around it’s stifle?


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Bay roan from the internet:


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Ohh I see it yea he looks a lot more like bay roan

 

[Bonkerelli]

 

[OneHappyDuckie]

Whatever he is, he is one fine looking horse

And he’s going to be my horse

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Can he be both? Blue bay?

To answer your question genuinely, I was just poking fun before. But bay is simply a black base with the agouti gene. To get bay roan, you add roaning.

Blue roan is black with roaning, so the only thing differentiating blue roan from bay roan is the agouti gene, which restricts black pigment to the points of a horse. Agouti is dominant, so if you added an agouti gene to blue roan you’d get bay roan, there’s no inbetween or a way to have “both.”