| How to breed for a palomino or buckskin horse using | | | | gene, they could also produce a buckskin. To be |
| a cremello stallion. | | | | certain of the color genetics of your mare, you can |
| To guarantee a 100% palomino foal, breed a sorrel to | | | | also pull a hair sample & have it color tested. |
| a cremello! Since a cremello is homozygous for the | | | | When you breed a cremello stallion to non-grey mares, |
| creme gene, the resulting foal will always get one copy | | | | you will always get one copy of the creme gene |
| of the creme gene to make a palomino foal. For most | | | | which will produce beautiful colors such as palominos, |
| coat colors (sorrel, chestnut, brown, black, dun, | | | | buckskins, smokey blacks. When breeding to grey |
| buckskin, palomino, bay), there is always a chance for | | | | mares, you have a 50% chance of the foal turning |
| getting a palomino foal unless the mare has a | | | | grey, but they will still carry the crème gene, |
| homozygous trait. Typically, the percentages just | | | | but it is genetically impossible to end up with a brown, |
| change with the base color of the mare. | | | | sorrel, bay, chestnut foal. |
| To breed for a buckskin foal using a cremello stallion, | | | | Now if you breed a cremello stallion to a mare that |
| you will need to breed him to a mare that is a color | | | | carries one copy of the creme gene, the resulting foal |
| such as black or bay as they will have a copy of the | | | | has a change to be a double dilute like a cremello or |
| black gene. Since some chestnuts carry the black | | | | perlino. |