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TRELIVER STUD
COAT COLOUR GENETICS
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What colour foal will I get from my mare if I put it to your stallion?? This the question everybody asks. Horse breeding is a lottery but there are certain ways to improve your chances of winning. Coat colour genetics has come a long way and much research has been carried out in this area. There are some basic rules which seem to apply but there are pitfalls along the way, as certain colour genes may give the appearance of a completely different colour (e.g. Cremello x Black may look like a liver chestnut when it is in fact a dilute black) and you are then disappointed or very surprised by the result.
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What you might get from Treliver Decanter This is the very basic information and there other genes that may play a part so for more detail go to one of the colour coat genetic websites for a more detailed study.
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Easy to understand site http://www.equinecolor.com/
Cremello Society colour chart http://www.cremello.co.uk/front.htm
List of books and sites http://members.aol.com/battyatty/other.htm
For those of you who want to go into a little more depth
Coat Colour Genetics http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/~lvmillon/coatcolor/coatstxt.html
Model Horse Reference http://www.mhref.com/color/genetics/tour/index.html
Horse Colour Genetics http://members.aol.com/MFTHorses/sponenbg.htm
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