Another color question

[cristy]

I have a dun colt, he is 7months old. His sire and dam are both gray, He has a blaze and a sock and a stocking, but no random white hairs. He is a golden palimono color with a sandy brown dorsol stripe and tiger stripes on his legs.

I also have a filly out of the same sire, also out of a gray mare. the filly is graying rapidly. (the filly is bay, and had a few white hairs in the top of her tail at birth, I knew she would be gray)

Do you think it is relatively safe to say he will stay the color he is now, oh he was fawn like at birth not brilliant.

[Paso Matchmaker Extraordinaire]

This is my favorite color site www.equinecolor.com

Personally, I would think he would not grey out, but it could still be too early to tell.

[GeorgeGuns]

Each parent has two genes, one of which will get to the foal. If each parent has one grey and one not-grey (heterozygous), there is a 25% chance that he will not grey. The greying hairs usually show up on the face first, and the end-hairs of the tail will go grey. They may show early or late. Rio didn't start showing any real sign of greying til he was 10-11 mos old I think (can't remember) and it started with his tail - the end is lightening. He hasn't got many white hairs on his face yet and he is 2 1/2 now.

If either parent has two grey genes, (homozygous) then he will definately grey. What color are the grandparents? ie: if each of his parents has a solid color and a grey parent, then they each have only one grey gene.