TWIN FOALS where one is a gray

[Jorge]

I wonder how many fraternal twins are out there, where one foal is gray while the other isn’t. I suppose this is not the case here for both foal must be grays due to the fact that STRONG PERFORMANCE was a homozygous dominant gray stallion.

By the way, what a great prolific stallion he was. What happened to him? Greener pastures? Here are a pair of twins he sired:

ELMER THE MAN (gray colt 2005)
http://www.pedigreequery.com/elmer+the+man

THREETWOSEVEN (gray filly 2005)
http://www.pedigreequery.com/threetwoseven

Imagine, someday a broodmare may produce a pair of twins where one is white and the other isn't ---whether because one immediate parent is white or as the result of a "cropout" birth.

Comments welcome!

[RiddleMeThis]

Loudly marked chestnut and solid black

[summerhorse]

I sort of recall that all horse twins are fraternal. I'm not sure why anymore.

[HeadlessHorseman]

Riddle...Those are the cutest horses/ponies....can't believe they are twins...

HH

[accphotography]

They're TWHs and yup, they be twins. Couldn't be more different (colt and filly to boot).

Yes, there has NEVER been a documented case of genetically identical twins in horses.

[ElPrado]

Going off on a tangent, I once owned a TWH that was a strawberry roan, bald face, stockings up to the knees and past the hocks on all four, a roan white patch behind the right foreleg and a cream mane and tail, and he stood 17.1 hands. Oh, he also had a blue eye. The overall effect was a pink and white giraffe. I also has a what I guess was a dun roan marked similarly at the same time.
Also, I had a paint gelding that had some draft blood that actually looked green and white. I've never seen any other horse of that shade in my life. He was some sort of dun.

[Jorge]

Did a “search” on twins and these threads surfaced:

Among these I remember, I remember reading an article in The Racing Post, Tuesday November 11, 2008, page 23, where a photograph showed a pair of very very similar looking twins. The name of the article was:
‘Ant and Dec’ have already beaten the odds and will now try to wow sales ring

Here is The Racing Post reference on that article which I posted http://www.racingpost.co.uk/images/grap ... gStock.pdf

I first made reference to that article here:
http://www.pedigreequery.com/forum/view ... ight=twins

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Other threads devoted to “Twins” are the following:

http://www.pedigreequery.com/forum/view ... ight=twins
http://www.pedigreequery.com/forum/view ... ight=twins
http://www.pedigreequery.com/forum/view ... ight=twins
http://www.pedigreequery.com/forum/view ... c&start=30
http://www.pedigreequery.com/forum/view ... ight=twins

[Jorge]

This equine has the same parents as the alluded twins but there is no reference on the twins here. Perhaps Lucy may assist us here.

http://www.pedigreequery.com/drumin+orpen