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Posting a photo or a link to photos will help members be able to answer your question as well. If you were told that she is rose grey, that most likely means that the mother is homologous for the gray gene which means her daughter must carry the gene as well. Rose grey usually refers to a red based coat color that will grey out. If I'm wrong I am sure someone here will correct me since I am no where near an expert. I really do suggest posting photos though.

Just a quick correction, roan foals are born with out clear roaning and become roan on their first shed.

Also being roan does not mean her mother must be homozygous. Just that she had the gene.

That cross could produce a roan if the dam is hiding the roan gene under the gray. It is more likley the foal is just gray though.

Not a great photo to tell color, but dark enough to probably be gray.

My guess would be she will be grey. I have raised many horses that have turned out to be grey or roan with one strawberry grey in the mix. How we could always guess color when they were young is by looking around their eyes. Usually the babies that will go grey will start showing dark around their eyes with grey hairs around their eyes as well. The roan horses usually do not, they stay the same color as the rest of the face around the eye. Other than that grey vs. roan babies look pretty similar. I would also guess that she won't be a strawberry grey because of the blue grey coloring on her hip already. My strawberry grey kept the red with grey until she went almost white

I've always heard it called rose gray or strawberry roan. She never said one way or the other if the damn was ee or E_

No rose gray is a pinky red stage some grays go through. It is not related to strawberry roan (chestnut roan) in any way.

That pedigree info does not tell you if the dam of your horse carried E (the black gene) or not. She could be Ee.

Looking at the current photo it appears you foal is red based not bay. Gray foals are often born dark but all the red tones in her mane suggest she is ee not Ee :)

She's a good looking girl. :)

Ok thank you! I'm new to this genetic stuff... So I'm learning so much! Thanks :)