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This might be a silly question to some, Im not a breeder, nor am I trying to breed (all I have are geldings) so please no lectures on being a backyard breeder.
My sister and I was talking about how we would love to have a blue roan draft. The conversation turned to how do you get a blue roan?
So my question is, Do you get a blue by breeding blue to blue, or is it still a 50/50? Does it depend more on the mare bloodlines or the stud bloodlines?

Todd NE WY says 2016-03-18 10:05:45 (CST)



No breeding experience here but the blue roan I have came from a blue roan stud and a sorrel belgian mare.


8 years ago via Forums | Front Porch Forum

HL649 says 2016-03-18 19:26:58 (CST)



A blue roan horse is simply a black horse with roaning present. Black is a dominant gene so as long as the foal gets 1 black gene from his parents he will be black. The Roan gene is also dominant so as long as he gets 1 roan gene from one of his parents he will be roan. Keep in mind that a horse that appears black may have one red gene and one black gene. So that horse only has a 50% chance of throwing the black gene to it's offspring. That also goes for the roan gene. If the horse only has one copy of the roan gene there is a 50% chance that it will throw the roan gene to it's offspring. Ideally to get a roan horse the best scenario would be to have 1 horse that is homozygous for black and one horse that is homozygous for roan. Hope that helps.


8 years ago via Forums | Front Porch Forum


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