Chocolate Palominos or Liver Chestnuts with flaxen manes and tails.

Here is my little man - quite grubby here but look how he scrubs up in my sig!
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He is believed to be Comtois x Haflinger
 
If i had to choose a colour for your horse CeeBee i would def choose silver bay not chestnut!!! He's lovely!!

Does he have strippy hooves, he looks like he could but hard to tell. Thats another indication of silver. Do you know the colours of his parents out of interest??


Hmm having now googled Comtois horse ( never heard of one sorry! ) this is interesting as most of them appear to look silver bay but are classed as chestnut???

Only one way to find out is to pull a few hairs!!
 
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This is my old lad (sorry pics are pictures of pictures!)
In his old age he was quite a milky colour summer and winter, but in his youth he went between bright yellow and liver in the summer, and then milky in winter. I loved his changing colour!!
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Sorry for the overload!!

ETA: Crikey that last one is blurry! Sorry!!!!
 
Well his passport says he is chesnut and I guess I always thought he was until this thread. So I looked up silver bay on google and Wikipedia says the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_(horse)
Apparently Nemo can't be chesnut, as a chesnut can not have black points. He does appear to fit the description of silver bay and actually in the winter, his coat is practically the same colour as Harvey's and he is very much a bay.
 
CeeBee said:
Well his passport says he is chesnut and I guess I always thought he was until this thread. So I looked up silver bay on google and Wikipedia says the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_(horse)
Apparently Nemo can't be chesnut, as a chesnut can not have black points. He does appear to fit the description of silver bay and actually in the winter, his coat is practically the same colour as Harvey's and he is very much a bay.
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Found this on wikipedia - Liver chestnut:-Silver dapples, especially bay silvers, are frequently misidentified as liver chestnuts or flaxen chestnuts. Flaxen (blond) manes and tails in chestnuts tend to have honey or red tones, while the pale manes and tails of silver dapples are soot-toned and darker at the roots. Liver chestnuts also lack the grey-brown dappling on the lower legs. The darkest liver chestnuts often have a kind of marbling on the lower legs, though this hair, too, should show red or yellow tones. Overall, chestnuts of all shades have red-yellow character to their coats, while silver bays recall grey-brown. Knowledge of the pedigree of the horse in question is often useful: two chestnut-based parents cannot produce a silver bay or silver black. DNA testing can be used in the most difficult cases.


Also it says "European draft breeds such as the Comtois and Ardennais also occur in silver"


AND..."The points of a bay are black, while those of a silver bay are silver"

From what i have read most Comtois are not chestnut but in fact bays that carry silver :)
 
Just wondering if your stallion was a Rhum bred Highland pony?

http://www.brownbreadstud.com/

Check this out, their stallion was Claymore Tommy, a Rhum bred pony, usually smaller and throw different colours... Bit marmite in the highland world...some love them others won't cross old bloodlines...
 
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