Arghh - found some silver hairs in my pony's mane!

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And he has a smattering of white hairs appearing around his eyebrow area and on his forehead too...plus both grandsires were grey! Sire was buckskin, dam unknown colour - he was sold to previous owner as a weanling at auction, and is described in his sales papers then as being dun grey. Has since coated out as bay roan.

Tell me this is not him going grey. He is just developing a lovely white star.

Please?

Roans can't grey out. Right? Right?

<gibbers and rocks in corner, picturing the mud stains...>
 
<sobs>

Ah well. Best get to explaining to him why rolling in mud is silly...maybe he will be a naturally clean type. It could happen..!

Also, he seems to have birdcatcher spots on his left hip. Must upload photo. And yes, that horse is in his background - way, way back! Via Carna Bobby's lineage :)
 
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My first pony was passported as grey roan but by the time I got him he was totally grey apart from a brown tint to his flanks and brown ears! I'm guessing he could have looked like this at some point?

Greys aren't all bad! I'm on my second - just stock up on stain remover and you'll be fine ;)
 
He is bay roan, but if his dam was grey, he could have inherited a copy of grey. He's only young, so might be starting to grey out. Have the white hairs always been there, but you've just noticed them? I would be more leaning towards grey if the white hairs were right by his eyes as that is a more common presentation (grey goggles).

You could either send off some hairs to be tested for grey, or wait and see what happens. :)
http://animalgenetics.eu/Equine/Coat-Color-Testing/equine-coat-colour-index.html
 
My bay roan pony changes with every coat change, in the depths of winter he's mostlye bay, at the moment he is nearly as roan as yours so it could just be his coat changing.
 
Nicnac said:
Or....(Shock horror) you could have been mis-sold... Could he actually be 25? :eek3::tongue3::biggrin3:
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Not according to his teeth, passport, microchip and vet check! And the fact he was still coating out when I first went to view him, lol :)

No, no white hairs on his face at first. There is now a small cluster in the centre of his forehead and a light dusting along his brows. His mane is getting a lot of ginger in it at the moment, and there are as mentioned four silver hairs. Yes, I counted.

Anyone speak Finnish? As his dam's pedigree is in Finnish on that link...
 
My bay roan looks exactly that colour at the moment if that helps! He even has the same amount of star. He's 20. :)

eta he's pretty much just bay in the winter and whitest in the Spring and Autumn when the coat changes. Early summer he's a darker roan then gradually gets lighter and lighter as the summer progresses.
 
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nikicb said:
My bay roan looks exactly that colour at the moment if that helps! He even has the same amount of star. He's 20. :)

eta he's pretty much just bay in the winter and whitest in the Spring and Autumn when the coat changes. Early summer he's a darker roan then gradually gets lighter and lighter as the summer progresses.
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Thank you :) I am going to cross my fingers that mine is a mini version of your lad, lol! He is fourteen months old, and just coated out this summer.
 
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