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Palomino Gelding
The cremello is almost white and the mane and tail are of the same body color. There are some horses that are double cream diluted horses and the mane and tail appear to have an orange glow to them. Some people may consider these horses to be Perlino, but they are not. The skin of the cremello is very light and almost pink. It does not have the grayish pigmentation that a “white” horse has. It is also possible for the cremello to white markings as well. the eyes are always pale blue.
The cremello has 2 copies of the cream dilution gene and 2 copies of the red gene. A cremello is technically double diluted sorrel or chestnut. I had a comment on my Haflinger blog asking about cremello Haflingers. Technically, this would be possible if the horse has 2 cream dilution genes and 2 red genes. Genetically, the cremello begins as a sorrel or chestnut and obtains a cream dilution gene from both parents. Palominos, for example, get one cream dilution gene from one parent. Cremellos do not contain black genes, no matter what their parentage is.
The parent of a cremello is usually a palomino or buckskin. Each of these horses have a cream dilution gene. Parents may also be other cremellos or perlinos.Â
A cremello that is crossed with a sorrel or chestnut will produce a palomino every time.Â
A cremello crossed with a bay will produce a buckskin, if the bay passes on the black gene to form the black points ofhte buckskin. Without the black gene, the resulting horse would be a palomino.
If a cremello is crossed with any other color, the result is a cream diluted foal every time. This does not necessarily mean that the foal will be double cream diluted because the cremello will only pass on 1 cream dilution gene.Â
A cremello does not always pass on the cream dilution gene.Â
Crossing a cremello with a bay, sorrel, or chestnut will never produce a bay, sorrel or chestnut.
Color coat genetics are very interesting and it’s hard to know what genes your horses have. Some claim that the cream dilution gene does not occur in the Haflinger, but if this is the case, how is it that Haflingers are palomino? This also brings up another thought that perhaps they are not palominos, but chestnuts with flaxen manes and tails….
10 Comments
October 3, 2007 at 7:20 pm
You are correct…Haflingers are chestnuts with flaxen/white manes and tails. The Haflinger does not carry the “yellow” gene required for a palomino. All Haflingers are descendants of a chestnut half arab stallion. There were, at one time , all different colors of Haflingers but the chestnuts were preferred and now we only have chestnuts…though they come in all shades from light honey to red gold.
February 21, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I have a Cremello foal from a Cremello TWH stallion and a smokey black tabiano SSH. Our little filly was a surprise! I guess my mare carries a dilute gene. I do not have background on her dam, so maybe that is where it came from?
March 8, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I have a Perlino colt. Do you know of any items I can use to pervent him from sunburning or any type of face mask that blocks the sun? Last summer I used sunscreen daily.
March 8, 2008 at 11:41 pm
A friend of my grandmother’s had overo paints with a lot of white on their faces. She would use Slinky’s to protect them from sunburn. They stretch and fit closely so he shouldn’t get caught on anything with it on. Also, you might try a fly mask. Other than sunscreen is the only other thing I could think of. If you can keep him inside during the day and turn out at night, that will keep him out of the sun, but you don’t want him in a dark barn or you’ll have vitamin D deficiency issues.
March 19, 2008 at 12:02 am
Can you tell me if cremello’s suffer skin complaints or cancer of the skin. Also do I need to cover with a rug in the summer months. Many thanks
May 14, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I just bought a cremello filly and I was wanting to breed her. SHe is 5 years old. The horse that I want to breed her to is a palomino paint. Do you know what color spots the foal would have if it was a paint?
July 25, 2008 at 5:34 pm
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April 21, 2009 at 11:48 pm
I have cremello stallion prospect. A few weeks ago 0ne of his eyes turned yellow.Do you know anything about Cremello horses? Eyes is what I need to know about. This one I have (which is not related to any of my horses) has blue eyes. Few weeks ago one eye turned yellow, started doctoring it, then blood appeared under eye, so called vet. Vet called WSU and they said it probably was caused from head injury and blood would need to be drained, probably wouldn’t get his sight back and be very costly!
And my vet couldn’t/wouldn’t attempt it anyway. Talked with another person, who is not horse person, but she said she had friend with mare that had white/cremello horse with blue eyes and one day one eye turned yellow, few years later other eye turned yellow. Horse was blind and put down. So, wondering if you ever heard of this before?
thanks
suzy
September 13, 2009 at 5:24 pm
the horse in the picture labeled as a cremello is a Palomino. The cremello has a very light golden to white color and “pink” skin with clear blue eyes, always. (CPEA website)
September 17, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Yes, he is a palomino, which is why it says “Palomino Gelding” beneath the photo.