I wonder if anyone can help me out. I've just bought a filly foal advertised as a Cremello and was advised by a friend to get her Dna tested which I have done. She is Ee Aa CrCr Gg so she is not a Cremello at all, she is a Perlino and much worse still she is carrying the dominant grey gene and will turn white, all her foals will have a 50% chance of turning white. I don't mind one white horse but hoped to breed a Palomino with her in a few years but breeding suddenly looks rather uncertain. I heard that because the Silver gene is dominant it prevents Grey which is also dominant from going completely white (if of course they do inherit the grey).
There is a German bred warmblood in England which has a Palomino base coat with a greyish mane, the breeder says it's got the Silver gene. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a common query but as a newbie can anyone help me out on how silver works with grey? Silver is very rare and pretty much unknown in the U.K...perhaps some of the Welsh breeders know a bit but I don't know anyone else to ask over here. Any help would be very much appreciated.
There is a German bred warmblood in England which has a Palomino base coat with a greyish mane, the breeder says it's got the Silver gene. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a common query but as a newbie can anyone help me out on how silver works with grey? Silver is very rare and pretty much unknown in the U.K...perhaps some of the Welsh breeders know a bit but I don't know anyone else to ask over here. Any help would be very much appreciated.