The horse coat color panel bundles together several diagnostic tests to evaluate coat color. Panel can be purchased on MyVGL. See below for pricing and list of specific tests included in panel.
If you would like to test for base color, dilution, and white spotting, please select the Full Color/Pattern Panel instead. This calculator will give you the possible offspring coat colors and their probabilities when given the parents coat color and pattern information. For a gray sire or dam, you must enter what color the horse was before it went gray as well as check the box labeled gray to the right of your color selection.
Horse Color Genetics Etalon DNA tests include over 60 equine coat color and pattern tests for all horse colors, patterns, white variations, and modifiers across all breeds. We are continually expanding our equine color testing offerings as new discoveries are made and published. Owners or breeders might need further information on the genetics of a horse's color for health reasons, such as testing for lethal white overo, or because color is a consideration in their breeding program, or because they are curious and want to be informed.
Skip ahead to order a coat. Dun is a color pattern characterized by dilution of the base coat color as well as primitive markings such as a dorsal stripe, facial masking and barring on the legs. Dun is dominant and only one copy of the normal Dun locus at the TBX3 gene is required for the phenotype to be expressed.
There is no dosage effect, so that horses exhibit the same phenotype whether they are heterozygous or. Advanced horse color genetics calculator tool. Predict foal coat colors with 95% accuracy based on parent genetics and equine color inheritance patterns.
Equine Color and Pattern Testing All horses have base color - black, bay or red (chestnut/sorrel), that are controlled by interaction of two genes Extension and Agouti. There is a multitude of genes that modify (dilute/delete) these pigments and allow a huge variety of coat colors and patterns seen in the horse. Learn about the genes and mutations that control the basic, dilute, and white coat colors of horses.
Find out how genetic testing can help with breeding and health management decisions. Explore advanced horse color genetics, from epistasis and polygenic traits to cutting. Animal Genetics provides genetic testing services for animals including Avian DNA sexing and diseases and inherited Canine and Equine characteristics and disorders.