Collor and our stalliOn
Though some of us love the striking ethereal glow of perlino horses, these colors take more care and expose the horses to more risk of sunburn and related problems. Many people don't want a foal of this coloring.  Then what's the advantage of a perlino father? This coloring is the only way to guarantee you will get a buckskin or palomino foal and, you don't have to worry about your foal being perlino, like his father, because it is not possible for most mares to produce a perlino foal when bred to a perlino father. Any normal colored mare bred to Miller will produce a buckskin or palomino foal. In fact, the only way to get a foal of the same perlino color Miller is himself is to breed him to a mare who is either buckskin, palomino, perlino or cremello horse. 
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Light Buckskin. Honor's 2020 foal.
What color will your foal be if you breed to our stallion? - Almost certainly not the same color he is.

​All of Miller's foals will "have color" - be one of the unusual cream gene colors
​(almost always buckskin or palomino).
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The Basics: 
If you breed your mare to Miller and your mare's color is....
  • red (chestnut or sorrel) - Your foal will be either palomino or buckskin.  About even chances for each. But there is also a chance he could also get the chocolate gene. If this happens, he will either be chocolate with a falxen main and tail, palomino or buckskin with a flaxen main and tail. [50% chance palomino, 50% chance buckskin; 50% chance of having a chocolate gene as well]
  • bay (brown) - Your foal will be either palomino or buckskin. More likely buckskin. But there is also a chance he could also get the chocolate gene. If this happens, he will either be chocolate with a flaxen main and tail, palomino or buckskin with a flaxen main and tail. [25% chance palomino, 75% chance buckskin; 50% chance of having a chocolate gene as well]
  • black - Your foal will be either palomino or buckskin. More likely buckskin. But there is also a chance he could also get the chocolate gene. If this happens, he will either be chocolate with a falxen main and tail, palomino or buckskin with a flaxen main and tail. [25% chance palomino, 75% chance buckskin; 50% chance of having a chocolate gene as well]
  • palomino - Your foal will be either palomino, buckskin or one of the sudo-albino colors (Perlino or Cremllo) like his father. About even chances of his being one or the other. But there is also a chance he could also get the chocolate gene. If this happens, he will either be chocolate with a falxen main and tail, palomino, buckskin with a flaxen main and tail or, if he is Perlino or Cremello, you wont notice any difference from the Chocolate gene. [50% chance palomino or bucksin, 50% chance Perlino or Cremello; 50% chance of having a chocolate gene as well]
  • buckskin - Your foal will be either palomino, buckskin or one of the sudo-albino colors (Perlino or Cremllo) like his father. About even chances of his being one or the other. But there is also a chance he could also get the chocolate gene. If this happens, he will either be chocolate with a falxen main and tail, palomino, buckskin with a flaxen main and tail or, if he is Perlino or Cremello, you wont notice any difference from the Chocolate gene. [50% chance palomino or bucksin, 50% chance Perlino or Cremello; 50% chance of having a chocolate gene as well]
  • Cremello - Your foal will either be Cremello or Perlino. He may also get the chocolate gene, but if this happens, you wont notice any difference from the Chocolate gene. [50% chance Cremello, 50% chance Perlino; 50% chance of having a chocolate gene as well]
  • Perlino - Your foal will either be Cremello or Perlino. He may also get the chocolate gene, but if this happens, you wont notice any difference from the Chocolate gene. [25% chance Cremello, 75% chance Perlino; 50% chance of having a chocolate gene as well]
  • Chocolate (Silver Dapple) - Your foal will still be palomino or buckskin, unless your mare is both chocolate and one of the cream colors (palomino, buckskin, cremello or perlino). Then there is a chance s/he could be cremello or perlino. On top of this there will be a chance he could get the chocolate gene. This gene will not make any noticeable difference in a Perlino or Cremello but could do some neat things to alter a paloino or buckskin. In particular, it could create a typical chocolate/flaxen coloring or a buckskin with a flaxen main and tail. [50% chance of having a chocolate gene; other colors are governed by the mare's base color as described above]
  • paint, roan, etc (any special color that prints on top of the horse's base color) - Pain, roan and similar type patterns always occurs on top of other colors - a black horse becomes a  black and white paint, a red horse becomes a red roan. If your mare passes on one of these special genes, the foal's "base color" will be determined just as described above, then the special pattern will be printed over that. Thus, you may have a buckskin paint or a palomino roan. [your mare's base color will govern the foal's base color as described above - most likely producing palomino or buckskin - and the special gene will have a 50% chance of being superimposed on top of that (Thus you will have a palomino paint or a buckskin roan); 50% chance of having a chocolate gene as well]

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Black buckskin. Honor's 2020 foal.
MILLER'S GENETIC MAKEUP: ​Miller has been genetically color tested so we know exactly what genes can pass on to a foal.
  • Aguti - Aa (he can pass on red or black coloring)
  • E - Ee (he can pass on black or bay coloring)
  • Cream Gene - CrCr (he will always pass on one cream gene to his foals)
  • Chocolate Gene (Silver Dapple) - Ss (has a 50% chance of passing on the chocolate gene