Colour transformations - pictures, please

[zeuscleoharmony]

It amazes me how a horse can start off being one colour and then totally changes and wondered if you have any before and after pictures of these amazing transformations.

This post is prompted by a previous post regarding a rescued pony, purchased as a 3 year old and looking like a bay but in later life being a light grey. I know greys start off dark but even its nose was coloured as if it was going to be a bay.

On Archie's passport his colouring is 'skewbald' but to my eye, and others, he is definitely a piebald. I know its not a major transformation and I do wonder if, at the time he was passported, his coat was sunbleached.

Looking forward to seeing your piccys.

 

[junglediva]

wwwwwwwwwwwwww VERY interesting posts lol.. cant show an example though. i have a 2yr old iron grey ish gelding lol ( i say ish becuse i dont actually know what colour to call him) and on his passport it says he was liver chesntnut a s a foal with a star.. now hes a greyish colour with a stripe..

soooo will be looking with interest..

 

[V1NN]

ooh i saw that post to it was crazy how much it had changed will be very interested to see x

 

[xbuzzx]

Saw that post too! knew they changed coulour but never knew they could change so much! Will be soo interested to see others photos!!

 

[FanyDuChamp]

Not quite the same as youngsters changing colour but Cappy changes from this in summer

Please excuse the condition of him, we had only had him 3 months and he was on 3 buckets a day and ad lib haylage/ turnout. He was in extremely poor condition when we bought him.

To this in winter (Not just coat that changes but mane and tail too)

Fany doesn't change much, just gets more and more furry!

 

[Achinghips]

Fllipin' heck, that's one massive change. What a beauty!

Laughed at your last comment - the mind boggles - lol

 

[HollyWoozle]

Well, my pony Cosmo went from near black to near white but I think that's a pretty common change for a lot of greys! The pics are a bit obscured but you get the idea. The first pic is me as a child, he was my 4th or 5th birthday present but never really grew much so I got too big for him pretty quickly after starting to ride him, plus he was a naughty so and so! We have kept him ever since and he leads a happy life of retirement.

 

[SmallHunter]

3 yrs old

5 yrs

6 yrs

7 yrs

and 7yrs

21 yrs old

 

[tabithakat64]

We had two greys at the RS where I worked, one was born chestnut and the other black

Fudge changes colour throughout the year
summer

spring

Winter

 

[Switchthehorse]

My pics wont upload but my mare was born black with a white star, at three she was very dark steel grey, at four she was steel grey with a chestnut roan tinge, at five her chestnut-ness (!) has gone and she is back to steel grey with a very white face! Heaven knows what colour she is going to go next.

Having said that she is so filthy on a normal day she is just poo coloured!

 

[Sarah B]

I can't remember how to upload pics - it's been so long! But the welshie I had was born bright chestnut, at 6mths he was a strange sludgy grey colour with chestnut in his mane and tail, by 3 yrs he was iron grey, he is now rising 8 and a light dappled grey!

 

[BackInBlack]

 

[BackInBlack]

last post was my horse at 2 and this one is him at 4!

 

[Flashbacksj]

Not quite the same thing.. but still a bit odd!
He was apparently born Black... then spotted out to be a blanket spot... then greyed out further to be a few spot...thats when we brought him...at 4yrs old:

I also remember him having a few black strands in his mane...
This is him aged 10ish...

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And this is him now at 14yrs: almost completely spot free!

He now has only one dark spot... that is brown (the rest were black) thats the one you might just be able to see on his rump... he has a few tiny patches that have black and white hairs mixed but i would be surprised if they were visable in another few years...

This is apparently due to the "greying gene" so basically its a defect in his breeding... glad he isnt a broodmare then!
His skin remains mottled... and he has zebra hooves etc... technically still classing him as an appolosa (x Cob!)

 

[S14Tobin]

Very interesting post! Will dig out and scan some pics, Peds started off almost a dark dun (buckskin/beige/sludge/very light baywhatever correct term was), with an almost white & grey tail has now settled as a Bay - very dappled, with a black, grey and white tail - BUT he does develop odd markings every year, from white in his mane (chunk, not few strands) blotches on face, chest, anywhere really - some stay and haven't gone, some go in Spring/Autumn, when he's moulting/growing coat - if anyone has any ideas, I'd be very interested to find out any opinions as to why? Apart from the fact he's a freak of nature!!!!

 

[GinaGem]

Gem went from grey to white over the years, had her about 14 years now:

 

[GinaGem]

And Prince changes thoroughout the year:

 

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

will try and finds pics later, but when we bought mums horse as a 4yo he was liver chesnut with a dark grey mane and tail.

by the time he was 6 he was like an iron grey/chesnut roan, who went dappled grey dun in summer!!!

he has greyed out a bit more each year and now only has chesnut hairs on his legs.so iron grey...dapple grey....and now at 13 white with a dappled bum and orangey grey legs!

 

[Faithkat]

This is mine when she was born
2 days old

and at 18 months

she's now 2 (3 in April) but still much the same

 

[*hic*]

My little AA mare:
5 months

1 year

3 years

4 years

5 years

This picture always amuses me - although you can't see my daughter's face very clearly both she and the mare have their eyes shut!

6 years

As she gets older, although she's turning lighter, every year she's getting more chestnut "fleabites".

 

[Darkly_Dreaming_Dex]

Harry as a foal and then a yearling:

Harry at 4:

 

[Darkly_Dreaming_Dex]

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Wow i think io (Harry's older brother)could his twin, you cannot really see the spots on his bum in this one

This is io and Harry's dad, Drea McCann (Cruising son)

 

[_HP_]

Daughter(7) on Holly(4):

Daughter (12) on Holly (9):

 

[LadyRascasse]

how about summer and winter???

Joe in summer

and in winter

 

[Serenity087]

Before - probably 2004 ish?

After - 2009

What have they done to my pony

 

[Seahorse]

Axel when he was 4 weeks old!!

Axel on the day I bought him, 1st May 2003. He's a yearling.

A 2 year old

scruffy 3 year old!

4 year old at his first dressage competition

Last year at the grand old age of 7!!

 

[zeuscleoharmony]

W O W! I knew you lot wouldn't disappoint me ... keep em coming.

I am speechless, the transformations that happen before our eyes and all the horses look a credit to their owners.

xxx

 

[Chavhorse]

Back in Black....Wow I think I may have just seen the future

Vardi Aged 3.5

And one year later 4.5

 

[LindyLulu]

harper_gal- wow! looks like 2 different horses!!

 

[BackInBlack]

oh yes, maybe you have chavhorse

vardi's lovely!