If I breed my black & white mare to a Sorrel stallion what is the color would the foal be?

The studs owners should be able to provide you with a record of what colour foals were born to what colour dams. It will help you to determine the likelyhood of what will be produced. I had a bay stallion with no markings that bred greys, chestnuts and other bays and all of his foals were bay with no markings even though all his breedings were to mares with socks, stripes etc.

If I breed my black %26amp; white mare to a Sorrel stallion what is the color would the foal be?
Gray
Reply:it could be sorrel, or black and white... the colors probably wont mix to make like a grey.... but you may even get another color if your mare is a paint
Reply:Excellent Q! Here are the possibilities:





If your black and white mare is a homozygous pinto, the foal will most certainly be pinto, as well.





If your black and white mare is heterozygous pinto, there is only a fifty percent chance of the foal also being pinto.





If your mare is homozygous black, the foal will also be black, considering sorrel is recessive. However, if the sorrel is carrying the restrictor gene that causes bays (it is hidden in sorrels) your foal will be bay.





If your mare is heterozygous black and the sorrel does not carry the restrictor gene, the foal has a fifty percent chance of being black and a fifty chance at being sorrel. If the sorrel does carry the restrictor gene, the fifty percent black is replaced by fifty percent bay.





Another very rare possibility is that your mare may carry a dilute allele (this is masked in blacks), in that case you have a chance for a buckskin or palomino, with or without pinto markings.





Now, if your sorrel has a flaxen mane and tail, there is a possibility he is a dark palomino and has been mistaken for a flaxen sorrel (sometimes it is hard to tell). In that case you have a chance for a buckskin if you mare is homozygous black and the stallion carries the restrictor gene, a palomino if your mare is heterozygous black, and a cremello or perlino if your mare carries a dilute allele. These would all be with or without pinto markings.
Reply:go to www.equinecolor.com/color
Reply:Unless you have more information you really wont know. The mare or stallion could carry for something totally opposite of there colours. What colour baby you get has to do with family genetics not just the colour of the parents.