Horses

The term "Buckskin" refers to a group of horses with a particular coat color rather than a breed "?? horses with a tan or gold colored coat with black points (ie main, tail and lower legs) are referred to as buckskin horses.? A buckskin horse color occurs as a result of the action of the cream dilution taking effect on a bay horse.?

The gene causes the black point coloring, and lightens the red "?? brown bay horse coloring to a tan/gold color. Buckskin horse coloring is not to be confused with dun coloring, where another gene( the dune gene) is at play.? Dun colored horses have primitive markings( typically exhibiting should blade stripers, dorsal strips, and zebra stripes on their legs and webbing.?

It is possible for a horse to have both the Buckskin(the cream gene) and the Dun(the dune gene) coloring genes these horses refered to as bucksin duns, or sometimes dunskins the first word used to demonstrate the most obvious coloring. ?

Sometimes a bay horses that does not have the dun gene will have a faint dorsal stripe, or a ?buckskin will have a darker dorsal stripe without a dun gene being present. Additional primitive striping beyond just a dorsal stripe is a sure sign of the dun gene.

Many horse breeds come in have Buckskin, though at least one of the parents must be a carrier of the cream buckskin? Though a color type, not a breed the Buckskin has its own registry, since 1963 American Buckskin Registry Association has recorded horses with this coat color.

Buckskin horses are not used to breed other Buckskin, ?since the buckskin coloring is the result of 1 gene(cream gene) being present and effecting a dominant coloring gene(bay) the buckskin coloring is not something that will appear truly in the progeny of any two horses.? When crossing two Bucksin horses, there is a

1. 25% chance of a base colored foal black, brown, bay or chestnut
2. 25% chance of a double dilute foal(cremello, perlino or smokey cream)
3. 50% chance of a single dilute color, (palomino, buckskin or smokey black.)

The only guaranteed way of producing buckskin horses is to use one perlino parent and one bay or brown parent with at least one parent homozygous for the wild-type allele at the extension locus and at least one parent must not carry the black allele A^a.