Chestnut colour change

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Chico has recently undergone quite a colour change.

When i bought him, and ever since, he has been quite a bright chestnut with just a couple of small darker patches that looked a little bit brindle.

Generally though his winter coat has been lighter than his summer coat.

However over the last couple of months he has gone REALLY dark and I would now consider him a liver chestnut.

This photo was taken this summer.
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And this one more recently (he is even darker now)
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Do you think he will stay this dark colour now, any one with liver chestnuts shed some light on his colour change?
 
My chestnut gelding was born bright orange with cream legs, first coat change went gorgeous liver, then back to chestnut again. After a few years he settled on dark chestnut in the summer and a kind of auburn in the winter. It took until he was about 10 to decide on that, though.

His wonderful winter coat means I can hardly bear to clip him at all!
 
My tb has gone from practically the same chestnut shade as yours! End result is exactly the same. She's also got a light roan-y (maybe the wrong phrase? idk) patch on her side just before her back leg!
:D
 
he has always had a multicoloured mane (ie several different shades of chestnut and brown) unlike all the regular chestnuts i have met so i have long been suspicious all was not as it seems....
 
My chestnut mare was never the same colour from one year to the next and different summer and winter. When I first bought her she had a black mane and tail and was mistakenly put down on her vetting certificate as a bay. Her mane went more body coloured but her tail retained a lot of black (and silver/blonde underneath). She was ginger biscuit coloured, definitely not a liver chestnut. It is a shade I've only seen in the Welsh breeds. As her coat changed, layer preparing to shed would go bright flame orange/yellow so she looked like a tree changing its leaves, with the new darker coat underneath. Some years she had dapples, one year she sprouted some extra white spots and I can remember her having a dorsal stripe for a while too but that disappeared again.

All a bit strange really :)
 
My filly was giner roan till 1yr Then started going very dark iorn grey dapple (with the odd ginger freckle and streaks in her mane and tail to remind you she was a secret ginger), then as she came up to 4 her legs went almost black her mane and tail went from whitish grey to almost black and her lovely dark iorn daple grey body keeps getting lighter every year btu she stills has little ginger freckles hiding in thier, also has a fiant black dorsal stripe but i fear her body will go almost white eventually.
I've had many chesnuts and bays over the years and often find thier coats change shade quite dramatically through out the seasons and years so you may find yours does change again
 
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