STORIES & INSPIRATION OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE AND BEYOND

THE AMERICAN DREAM HORSE reading room

A quiet place for stories, standards, and everything a good horse compels us to learn.

A vintage, round wax seal with the initials A, D, H engraved in cursive, surrounded by a decorative border and two horse heads at the top.

Reading Room · Tools

Coat Color Calculator

Choose the color of each parent, and add any DNA results you have. The calculator shows the colors and patterns a foal could inherit, and how likely each one is.

Sire

Dam

The Foal

Possible colors

    Patterns

    Gray, roan & white

    Genetic detail

    Email this cross to yourself, or ask us about it.

    How it works

    Each parent passes one copy of every gene to the foal. The calculator combines both parents gene by gene and adds up the results.

    When a result is not known, each possible genotype is weighed equally. DNA results remove that guesswork and give the truest odds.

    A few names

    In the Rocky Mountain Horse, Silver Black is often called Chocolate. Elsewhere it is known as Silver Dapple.

    For a horse called brown, choose Bay. For a gray horse, choose the color it was born and select Gray.

    Sources

    Genetics notes draw on the UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE

    LIBRARY
    The Long View
    The Long View

    A thirty-year population analysis of the Rocky Mountain Horse: where the breed stands, what will be lost if nothing changes, and what can still be built.

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    FIRST HORSE & BUYER EDUCATION

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    How to Choose a Rocky Mountain Horse Breeder
    How to Choose a Rocky Mountain Horse Breeder

    Nine questions to ask before you buy — from a breeder who learned them the hard way.

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    FOALING & EARLY LIFE

    LIBRARY
    The Love Drug Combo
    The Love Drug Combo

    The three vials we keep on hand during foaling season— what they are, when they may be needed, and why our vet has us keep them on the medicine shelf.

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    The Foal Kit
    The Foal Kit

    What to keep close in the weeks before your mare foals - a checklist earned through experience.

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    CARE, HEALTH, & GENETICS

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    Products We Like
    Products We Like

    A working shelf of the supplements and daily care products we reach for at American Dream Horse.

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    The Farrier Schedule
    The Farrier Schedule

    The trust between our farrier, our horses, and us, and why a consistent schedule matters far beyond the next trim.

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    ADH FARM CHRONICLES

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    Why We Don’t Sell Every Foal
    Why We Don’t Sell Every Foal

    Not every foal born at American Dream Horse is for sale. There are three reasons a foal stays - and one of them has nothing to do with strategy.

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    ADH FARM chronicles