Cover image features Beinn Kaldy Bheithir

The Grey Gene.

The grey gene is a dominate gene and is responsible for the progressive fading of a pony’s coat colour resulting in the complete greying of the pony. The grey gene is considered to be the strongest of all the genes and will dominate over all coat colours and dilution genes. The process varies per pony some may take only a couple of years before turning completely grey and others may take ten years or more. You will hear terms such a cream dun, grey dun, steel grey, rose grey and dapple grey to name a few but in the end all of these ponies will eventually be completely grey.

below you can find colour examples of highland ponies carrying the grey gene.

It has been a couple of weeks in the making and I could not have accomplished these without the help of other Highland Pony breeders,
which whom I cannot thank enough for supplying me with photo examples of the different colours within the breed.