Percherons of Color
Black - Grey - Chestnut - Bay - Roan
A Registered Percherons Research Site
Black
Number 1 registered color in United States and Canada.
Number 2 registered color in France, UK, Australia, and South Africa.
Horses can be either homozygous - EE
or
heterozygous - Ee
for black. Black is a Base Color.
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Grey
Number 1 registered color in France, UK, Australia, and South Africa.
Number 2 registered color in United States and Canada.
Horses can be either homozygous - GG
or heterozygous - Gg
for grey. Grey is a Modifier.
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Chestnut
Number 3 registered color in United States and Canada.
Accepted in South Africa, but none known at this time. Accepted in Australia. Unaccepted color in France, UK, however occasionally chestut/sorrel horses do pop up when two recessives are bred together. The resulting foals are denied registration even though they're purebred Percherons.
Horses are automatically homozygous - ee
Chestnut is a Recessive gene;
Chestnut is the opposite of black. Chestnut is a Base color.
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Bay
Only 16 Bay Percherons living, and breeding age known remain in the US Registry. Unknown amount of Bay's in the Canadian registry. Have found none that are Registered and Pure to date.
Unaccepted color in UK, and Australia. None left in France. None known in South Africa even though listed as an accepted color.
Horses can be either homozygous - AA
or heterozygous - Aa for bay. Bay/Agouti is a gene that is visible only on Black based horses. It can hide in Red based horses.
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Roan
Known at this time. 7 stallions (6 Roan - 1 Grey+Roan). 43 Roan's left in the breed in both US and Canada.
Not accepted as a registered color in UK, France, Africa, or Australia however potentially found in French Percherons, so a possibility it is also hiding in these other registries underneath grey.
All horses at this time are Heterozygous - Rn for Roan with the exception of one colt born in 2015. Roan is not 100% identified to be tested with accuracy at this time in all horses.
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