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Hi all
was wondering if anyone could enlighten me to what color my mare is her passport says bay (sorry i know its another color question) I have had this mare about 12 yrs she has gotten lighter with age but this year her colour change is really nocticable. have put up 2 pics one in her stable in evening lights are rubbish lol and one of her ridden in proper daylight. I have no idea what color her parents are, if it helps she had a chestnut foal ( sire was chestnut) Many thanks for reading :D:D

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lol yes i know she is bay i just ask out of curosity as she used to be quite dark then all of a sudden this year she is light and seems to have more of a ginger tint of her in summer but this winter after clipping her the light bits look quite dun :confused:
someone had mention she was a red bay ??? as you can tell i have every little knowledge of different colours just know the basic colours lol
 
Horsesforever1 said:
Seal Bay.
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She looks like a Seal Brown to me. It's slightly different to bay visually and genetically. The brown bits are quite large, but they are in the right areas (above nostrils, flanks, the inner thighs and inner forearms).

SatsumaGirl said:
Bay with mealy, I think.
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Pangare - which causes mealy muzzles - is generally found in pony breeds (eg Haflingers, Exmoors and some Draught/heavy breeds). The horse in the OP doesn't have a pale enough muzzle to indicate pangare.

Seal brown (horse in winter coat, so the brown nose is quite striking).
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Pangare on a bay Exmoor.
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Faracat said:
She looks like a Seal Brown to me. It's slightly different to bay visually and genetically. The brown bits are quite large, but they are in the right areas (above nostrils, flanks, the inner thighs and inner forearms).

But she has black legs surely can't be a brown .
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A dark bay I think, my old loan chap had a lot of that shading going on but is a dark bay..

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It might sound a bit boring but I think it adds a bit of interest anyway :-)
 
The reason that it's Wild bay, is not due to the shade of brown that the agouti has faded the 'would have been black without agouti' body to, it's because of the way that hardly any black has been left on the legs. Sorry, I should have explained.

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^Compare with this horse (ignore the sock), can you see how much black this horse still has on it's legs?

You could call the wild bay, a Bright wild bay if you wanted and this one a bright bay. :)
 
I have a piebald / skewbald which is seal brown on the colored parts. Though most of her dark areas appear a true jet black the muzzle, under the eye, the inner ear hair and gaskin area is lighter like a seal brown. I have never known if this makes her piebald or skewbald or something else? Anyways she is very pretty ...
 
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