Are You Prejudiced About Colour?

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Horses that is?!
I mean, does it really matter? I absolutely dream of finding a bay roan for my daughter - why is that?
I love duns, don't like palaminos, like greys (but for the grooming) and bays, don't like chestnuts (except of course obviously the best pony we've got is chestnut!) am abivalent about coloureds (despite my screen name! we do have a skewbald as well LOL) which I reckon is unusual (ambivalence about coloureds, I mean) - love all roans ....
why, for goodness sake?!
Anyone else this daft?
Here's a poll, and can anyone do a more sophisticated one for favourite and least favourite colour, or has that been done like a million times?! In which case, sorry.
 
Ive never liked bays, unless they look a bit special, ie a 'normal' bay, doesnt do it for me! I have a bright bay though and it wouldnt matter to me if he was pink!

I love black horses, my fave colour.

Its conformation more than colour that puts me off a horse, although I dont like flea bittens/roans or cremello's
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I don't mind the color at all!
It's all about the horse and what it can do, how it behaves and if it suits me...
Mind you I wouldn't mind a palomino, I think they have something about them as in looks! tee hee!
Kate x
 
Don't particularly like roans, appaloosa's, bays or chestnuts but wouldn't turn any away if they did the job I required.
 
I don't mind too much but would not go for a grey as they are too hard to keep clean and I tend to ride mine straight from the field. If I had a coloured, it would need more black than white colouring on it.
I think I am lucky with my black horse...so easy to keep clean as you don't see the muck and always shiny looking!
 
i'm not that fussed about colour, i can be pinikity with coloureds they have to have perfect markings, or markings which look perfect to me anyway !
 
If all things were equal, I'd chose the colour I like most (i.e. dark greys, dapple greys, roans, coloureds, spotteds ect)..It'd have to be pretty (or in my opinion) though because well..I'm shallow and first impressions matter to me. <.<
 
i'm not bothered although i have said i am never having another grey only because of all the cleaning involved!!! my friend refuses to have chestnut mares however nice they are if she goes to see them!!!

i don't really care about the colour as long as it's friendly and isn't evil! its more about personality for me!
 
No, not at all, as long as it is a palomino or a paint. (Kidding)

I do like palominos and paints very much, and searched especially for a palomino, but, if a horse did the job I wanted it for, then, as someone else said, I wouldn't care if it was green!
 
Id never turn down a horse purely due to its colour if it were perfect otherwise. Saying that though, it would need to be something special for me to consider a chestnut! Hate them! Stroppy buggers. I always laughed when people said that I was crazy for owning a chestnut, until I realised that yes I was!

Im not particularily keen on bays (unless dark bay) simply because they're so common! I love greys because Ive never had a bad one. Id love a coloured but would hate to have to wash it. I dont like spotted horses much either, just because they look odd (although I do like the blanket type).
 
I would never turn a horse away because of its colour but I do like some more than other, lets say I had the pick of a bunch of TBs, all identical apart from colour....I like the
Palominos, Bays, Blacks, Liver chesnuts, Dark bays, dapple greys, dark greays, fleabitten greys, some coloureds, particularly if they have a lot of colour instead of white on them.... but wouldn't take home a normal grey (without a silver mane LOL), chesnut (possibly if it had a flaxen mane and tail
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) roans and don't think I would ever take home a cremello, just don't like them. Sure there is some colours I have missed
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I have to admit that I'm not keen on skewbalds or piebalds or greys and love roans and duns or anything else unusual but I wouldn't let a horses colour put me off buying it if it was suitable in every other way
 
Prejudiced against anything that is a light colour - light greys, piebalds/skewbalds with more than a tiny bit of black, cremellos and the like. Somehow they seem to be the horses that like mud the most and always need washing to get marks off.

For similar reasons, a bit prejudiced about anything with more than 1 white sock, as that is always the bit they get muddiest/poo down at inconvenient moments!

Other than that, not prejudiced against any colour of horse.
 
problem is if you say "wouldn't care if it was green" doesn't cover the point where when you are reading an advert - and lets be honest here -most adverts don't resemble the real horse - would you go and look at a 'pink' horse if you saw the same description for a chestnut horse ???

personally I don't read adverts for coloured or grey horses as I do't want one and I don't want bay or brown. I like chestnut and roan/dun/palomino/chestnet with flaxen mane/spotted/pink/blue/red horses so I'd read those adverts and possibly go and look at one
 
I have a beautiful bay roan, a lovely liver chestnut and two dark bays, plus a very dark brown/almost black.
Colourwise I like all except the black, though she is striking to look at, and my dark bays are my favourite. I wouldn't have a grey (and that includes coloureds which are mostly white) cremello or other washy colour. Too much cleaning to do - plain and simple.
 
i don't mind colour at all, it's all about conformation, athleticism and expression for me. having said which, if i could have the perfect horse in whatever colour i'd like, i'd probably be really showy and want a dun, palomino or skewbald.
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i love a flashy chestnut, too.
i'll never have a grey again unless i can afford a groom though! too many very bad memories of washing poor horse in freezing March to try to get it looking immaculate for eventing.
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I would like to say that no it doesn't matter....however I think you'll find that with most people they are in fact prejudice, whether they know it or not.

Take spotty horses for example......and cremellos.... or even albinos....

I have never ever liked palomino's - I now own 3 pally's and they are definitely growing on me. I bought the horses which would do the job and they just happened to be palominos therefore I turned a blind eye to their colour. I think because of the attachment I have with these horses, I am almost oblivious to their colour now.

My favourite colours are greys and sorrels/chestnuts.
 
I couldn't care less about the colour, if everything else is what i'm looking for then who cares what colour the horse is...if your colour numnahs don't go - it's just an excuse to go shopping!!!
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Although I would LOVE to have a green horse
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But i love my orange monster!!!!

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I love coloureds and iron grey/dapple grey but i am not a bay fan or a flea bitten grey fan but if they were the right horse then tbh thats all that would matter.
My first pony was a bay and hattie was just a bonus as she is coloured
 
I wouldn't buy another grey. I know it's silly but I lost my grey to melanomas & they're just too common in greys for me to have another. He was an old man but I've known them cause problems in much younger horses & I just couldn't cope with the worry over every little lump & bump - I'd drive everyone around me mad!

Other than that I wouldn't rule a horse out because of it's colour though I must admit there are some I like more than others.
 
Personally I would never buy a grey, my reason for this is that everyone I know who has had one has had health problems with them, not necessarily related to their skin colouring or anything, just problems in general.

I love chestnut mares, where as some people I know wouldn't even go and look at one never mind buy one, each to their own.
 
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