Pre-Parturient Mare Behavior. Mares will generally foal after an 11-month gestation, but this is highly variable. Studies have shown a range of gestation from 315 to 387 days, with an average of about 341 days.
Punnett squares are most commonly used to examine genotype probabilities from one genetic locus at a time. They can be used to look at more than one locus at time, but some find the resulting diagrams complicated and difficult to interpret.
For each of the crosses below, determine the gametes that would be formed by the parents and set up a Punnett Square. You do not need to fill in the square now, but save them for the next section. A mother that is heterozygous for the gene for dimples with her husband who has no dimples.