In
April 2007 The
Brand Farm of Innisfail, Alberta, Canada had their
2005 Welsh stallion,
Shell Crest Dusty Gold tested for the silver
gene by Animal
Genetics Inc., he was found to be carrying a copy of
the silver "Z" gene.

He is the first
purebred Welsh to be confirmed silver by testing!
He was also tested in March of 2006 by U.C. Davis to be
black.
His color markers are Ee
aa nZ