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Se Habla Espanol
RoyalHorseFarms@aol.com
(386)344-4516
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Colors
For more information on any of our horses or this web site, please feel free to contact us at any time :
By Phone: (386)344-4516 or by e-mail RoyalHorseFarms@aol.com.
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There are four basic colors of the P.R.E. horse, they are Grey, Bay, Black & Chestnut. There are many alterations of these colors which are listed under the category of other below.
Grey
There are many different shades of Grey, depending on the color of the horse without the modifier, and if the horses is a homozygous or heterozygous grey. ALL grey horses have black skin, are born bay, black, or chestnut base and throughout their life turn lighter and lighter until they are white. ALL Grey horses will eventually be white.
Grey horses can be homozygous grey (they will ONLY produce grey foals) or heterozygous grey (they will produce grey and non grey foals) When thinking on the genetic side of grey, it is best to think of the Grey modifyer gene as a sweater that covers over the actual color of the horse. So when contemplating the genetic probability of colored offspring, first consider the base color then apply a 50% grey offspring (if the horse is heterozygous grey), or a 100% grey offspring (in the horse is homozygous)
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All horses above are 'Grey' and will eventually turn white with a white mane and tail
All foals below are grey, notice their legs, when foals are born one of the first signs a horse will grey is the color of the legs, if a foal is born with black or red legs they will grey.
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Bay
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All horses above are Bay and will stay bay and never turn white. While the color bay has many shades only DNA genetics can confirm a horse as bay. Some horses are so dark that they appear black, but when bred will produce bay foals.
All foals below are bay and will never turn white. Foals are born with grey, dun, or tan colored legs, and often a lighter ring around the nose. In young foals you can also see if they have red or black genes. Foals 1, 2, and 4 all have one copy of the red gene 'EeAa' (can produce chestnut foals), foals 3 and 5 have a black gene 'EEAa' (can produce black foals)
Genetically bay horses can be... EEAa, EeAa, EEAA, or EeAA.
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Below is a table to help guide you in breeding your bay horse
your bay horse --->
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EEAa
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EeAa
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EEAA
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EeAA
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bred to:
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eeaa Chestnut
(the horse is a chestnut, but when bred to a homozygous black will only produce black foals)(Can produce chestnut foals)
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50% bay
50% black
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25% bay
50% chestnut
25% black
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100% bay
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50% bay
50% chestnut
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eeAa Chestnut
(the horse is chestnut, but when bred to a homozygous black will produce 50% bay and 50% black foals)(Can produce chestnut foals)
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75% bay
25% black
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37.5% bay
50% chestnut
12.5% black
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100% bay
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50% bay
50% black
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eeAA Chestnut
(the horse is chestnut, but when bred to a homozygous black will only produce bay foals)(Can produce chestnut foals)
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100% bay
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50% bay
50% black
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100% bay
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50% bay
50% black
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EEaa Black
(the horse is black, when bred to a homozygous black will only produce black foals)
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50% bay
50% black
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50% bay
50% black
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100% bay
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100% bay
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Eeaa Black
(the horse is black, when bred to a homozygous black will only produce black foals)
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50% bay
50% black
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37.5% bay
25% chestnut
35.5% black
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100% bay
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75% bay
24% chestnut
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EEAA Bay
(the horse is bay, when bred to a homozygous black will only produce bay foals)
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100% bay
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100% bay
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100% bay
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100% bay
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EeAA Bay
(the horse is bay, when bred to a homozygous black will only produce bay foals)(Can produce chestnut foals)
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100% bay
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75% bay
24% chestnut
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100% bay
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75% bay
25% chestnut
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EEAa Bay
(the horse is bay, when bred to a homozygous black will produce 50% bay and 50% black)
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75% bay
25% black
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75% bay
25% black
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100% bay
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100% bay
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EeAa Bay
(the horse is bay, when bred to a homozygous black will produce 50% bay and 50% black)(Can produce chestnut foals)
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75% bay
25% black
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56% bay
25% chestnut
19% black
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100% bay
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75% bay
25% chestnut
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Black
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All horses above are black (and all DNA color confirmed) All horses above are EEaa Homozygous black and will give their foals only a black gene.
All foals below are black (DNA color confirmed) Foals One and three are Eeaa (they have a red gene and can produce chestnut foals) foals 2, 4, and 5 are EEaa Homozygous black. Black foals are born silver with silver on their legs and silver over their chest. Notice the amount of silver on foal number 5, and the light silvering on foal number 4.
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Below is a table to help guide you in breeding your black horse
your black horse --->
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EEaa
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eeaa Chestnut
(the horse is a chestnut, but when bred to a homozygous black will only produce black foals)(Can produce chestnut foals)
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100% black
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50% black
50% chestnut
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eeAa Chestnut
(the horse is chestnut, but when bred to a homozygous black will produce 50% bay and 50% black foals)(Can produce chestnut foals)
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50% bay
50% black
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25% bay
50% chestnut
25% black
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eeAA Chestnut
(the horse is chestnut, but when bred to a homozygous black will only produce bay foals)(Can produce chestnut foals)
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100% bay
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50% bay
50% chestnut
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EEaa Black
(the horse is black, when bred to a homozygous black will only produce black foals)
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100% black
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100% black
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Eeaa Black
(the horse is black, when bred to a homozygous black will only produce black foals)
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100% black
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50% black
50% chestnut
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EEAA Bay
(the horse is bay, when bred to a homozygous black will only produce bay foals)
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100% bay
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100% bay
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EeAA Bay
(the horse is bay, when bred to a homozygous black will only produce bay foals)(Can produce chestnut foals)
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100% bay
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75% bay
25% chestnut
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EEAa Bay
(the horse is bay, when bred to a homozygous black will produce 50% bay and 50% black)
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50% bay
50% black
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50% bay
50% black
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EeAa Bay
(the horse is bay, when bred to a homozygous black will produce 50% bay and 50% black)(Can produce chestnut foals)
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50% bay
50% black
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37.5% bay
25% chestnut
37.5% black
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Chestnut
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All horses above are chestnut and are homozygous for the red gene, and all foals of these horses will have the ability to produce chestnut foals.
All foals below are chestnut (DNA color confirmed) Chestnut foals are red, with red mane and tail, with cream or silver on their legs. The tail is red with sometimes white or cream colored hairs on the sides. Should there be black in the tail the horse will be a bay not a chestnut.
Adult Chestnut horses can sometimes have light or flaxen manes and tales, or dark red mane and tail and darker points. The body color can range from a light tan red to a dark liver color.
The majority of chestnut foals are born with pink or pinking/purple skin that will darken within a few days.
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Other (Including, the Sabino, the cream, the Dunn, and the pearl)
Markings and Patterns
Rabacano - or Skunk Tail
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Above is a bay mare, confirmed NOT to have a grey gene, the white hairs on the tail were present at birth and have not increased in number as she has aged. Notice how the white hairs seem to be in lines across the top of the tail. There are also a few white hairs interspersed lower on the tail towards the base but only 4 or 5
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Roaning
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The above picture is of a bay horse (Confirmed not to have the grey gene) that is roaning, white hairs that were not present at birth are slowly increasing through the hip and trunk of the body very few hairs are present on the neck and none on the face or legs. As this horse ages more and more white hairs will become present. However the head and legs do not show an increase of white hairs.
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