Complete change of colour

[Marquire]

I have a mare on loan for my OH. She's 19 next month and used to be a fabby SJ but is now enjoying a quieter life hacking around and being treated like a queen.

Anyway her owner brought some pictures of her to the yard last night of the mare in her younger days and I couldn't believe it was her.

Currently she is jet black (ala Black Beauty) with a little white around her muzzle. However 10 years ago she was liver chestnut????????

And 5 years ago she had turned bright bay after she had her foal?????

It's definately her in both pictures as she has quite a distinctive head.

I had no idea horses got darker with age. Anyone experience this?

Marie

 

[Mid]

The longer hairs are often darker - Did she have her summer coat in the pics?

 

[jemima]

My first pony was a lovely dark strawberry roan in the summer and grey in winter. You have never seen anything so tatty-looking as when his winter coat was falling out in handfulls leaving his dark summer coat underneath.

 

[Forget_Me_Not]

Greys get lighter and lighter *Sugh... love me steel greys* But like Mid said most horses darken in the winter with longer coats.

 

[Forget_Me_Not]

Oh forget to say i had a white-grey crabbet Arabian for training awhile ago stable named Ginger becasue she was born black, and ligthen then randomly turned chestnut for while but now paper white take-away the stable sains!