Sorrel Horse Genes

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Sorrel Genes

Important! Sorrel horses (and liver chestnut and red) are genetically the same! Just different shades of the same genes.

For the purposes of this chart, flaxen has been written as "ff", a recessive gene. Studies indicate that flaxen is not a simple recessive gene, but for ease of use it has been written as such here.

As a general rule, the more dilution genes (cream, pearl, champagne, dun) a horse has, the less any other genes will show up.

Wait, Mellody! You got something wrong!

That is not surprising. I am not a horse geneticist, breeder, owner... Frankly I have no contact with horses except on extremely rare occasions, and this has been the case my entire life. Between that and my lamentably incurable humanity, there are undoubtedly mistakes in this guide. And since I don’t really want that, please let me know if you see any!

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