Chestnut Foal Went Bay Now She's Going White !!

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I put up a post a few weeks ago about the colour of my foal and what people thought about the colour she would end up.

Well, She started chestnut, her legs went black upto the knee and her mane and tail went black. Her mane and tail and still black, and her legs are still black.
She is still a Bay colour - BUT...... when grooming her this morning, She's going WHITE !!!!
On her Rump she has a fair amount of white hair coming through, and she has a few on her neck as well.
Its kinda funny, I will go down one morning and she will be all white. and the next and be all black (only joking)

I am amazed, that these hairs are coming through so quick, someone on the previous post that i placed, did say that their chestnut foal went white. Once her Black legs came through I was convinced she was going to be a bay, and smiling about it, but now i have no idea what colour she will be.
She's 11 months old. Dam was White and Sire was a Very Dark Bay (looked black to me) with white socks and white stripe....
 
wa mum a grey then or a sabino that went whiter not grey as the sabino gene fades the colour I once new a shetland that had a chestnut head and one splodge on his back and a chestnut tail the only colour he had later in life was his chestnut tail and his head stayed chestnut.
Last year I also bred a foal that was born chestnut then he turned bay but his mum is a overo TB and he was overo with displached white on his tummy legs stifle.
love to see photos of your foal and mum.
what colour is mums skin is it pink or black /grey?
 
I love it when they change colour, sadly all my foals stay as they are because I don't have any greys now.

This horse (12 in photo) started off life as a bright chestnut, was a bit dappley when I got him at 10, went pure white and at about 13 began to get a LOT of chestnut spots, like fleabitten, but larger!

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Any photos?

My 2 lads were Grey, went liver bay and now are black!

There was a little bright chestnut on another form, she is now rose Grey!
 
I dont know how to post up a picture, the picture under my user ID is the mare and foal. I blew up the picture and could see that the mare has quite a few small brown (well strawberry) spots on her. I was told she was a TB x (but i dont know what she is crossed with) The Sire is an Irish draft pure bred.
 
To post pictures, set up a photobucket account, then once you've loaded your pics onto that, you need to copy and paste the IMG code (there'll be 4 numbers each with a different name like html etc, go to the IMG one, the numbers are on the left of your picture) onto your thread here and viola they appear!!!!
 
I bred a filly which was born bright chesnut (to a grey dam and bright bay sire). Her first moult brought forth a rose grey and by the time she was 4 she she was a rapidly fading grey. Her dam's papers described HER as 'born black to go grey'
 
From the picture you can see she was chestnut, its hard to believe at the moment she has black legs upto her knees, black mane and tail. But i had forgotton that the mare had these little flickers of brown in her coat. My lass has white hair coming on the top of her bum and some on her neck



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My black and white colt is who is my avatar pic and on my banner and have posted some pics in another thread is turning grey on his bum ?? I am very confused by this he is the same colour as his dad and his mum is bay but his bum which has disinctive markings is turning white ? ?
 
I think your foal is going to be liver coloured but it does not look like its sabino as there are no white markings as in blaze or stockings so looks like she may go grey.
 
A friend of mine had a pure white arab mare. The papers that came with her stated that she was born bright chestnut with a white stripe and 4 white stockings. When she was wet you could see the outline of these on her skin. Even adult horses can change colour quite dramatically. I have a photo of my mare who is a dark ginger sort of chestnut (not liver by any stretch of the imagination - think teak!) the week I bought her and she clearly has a black mane and tail. In fact at the vetting, she was described as a bay and I had to ask the vet to alter it. She is absolutely not bay! Since then though, her mane has gone self-coloured and her tail can't make its mind up.
 
Yip - this happened to my girly too.
Check out my photos - the foal is her! Chestnut when a wee baby and now grey and gets greyer at every coat change!!

Her mommy was grey though and her dad chestnut so I guess mayb to be expected.

p.s I also think she gets more beautiful at every coat change but possibly biased lol! :D
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BeckyX said:
a horse i know has a passport that says bay, but he is a shocking white!!
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Because he will have greyed out over the years.
He would have been born bay, and then as time progressed, he would have got greyer and greyer, until hey presto, completely grey horse.
You can send a passport back to have the colour changed if needed.
I have a filly that was born bright chestnut last year. Winter she went rose grey, and now she is really starting to change.
Her mum was born chestnut, and is now a very white grey with chestnut flecks throughout her coat.
 
What an amazing process. So at the moment I have a multi coloured little angel. A lovely Bay foal with lots of white flecks coming !!! hmmm well, I dont know how the breeder said that she would be chestnut, she looked under her mane at the roots and said she would be a chestnut, her passport says chestnut, and i have read somewhere that their colour will be what colour there eyelashes are and hers are a bay colour.

So i will have to accept that she will be - what she will be !!! ;-)
 
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