Difference between dark bay and brown?

[Anglebracket]

What is the difference between a dark bay and a brown horse (if any)?

According to my mare's passport she is brown. I generally refer to her as being dark bay. She is dark brown in colour with black legs. She has a tan muzzle and lower belly. Her mane and tail are black.

 

[LittleMouse]

What is the difference between a dark bay and a brown horse (if any)?

According to my mare's passport she is brown. I generally refer to her as being dark bay. She is dark brown in colour with black legs. She has a tan muzzle and lower belly. Her mane and tail are black.

i would call that a bay because of the mane and tail?
ive always thought a brown horse was all brown. and a dark bay was just a darker bay haha
weird......

 

[Anglebracket]

i would call that a bay because of the mane and tail?
ive always thought a brown horse was all brown. and a dark bay was just a darker bay haha
weird......

I thought that horses that are brown all over are liver chestnuts.

 

[Sussexbythesea]

I've been looking at this web site as my gelding is an unusual bay as he has a mix of chestnut and black hairs and dapples. I think he mught hav ethe "sooty" gene.

This page has stuff on bay and brown - looks like yours is probbly brown.

http://www.whitehorseproductions.com/ecg_basics2.html

 

[Parker79]

My mare is brown....she often looks dark bay but when you look at her mane and tail it is darker brown...not black...this is the difference.

In the summer my mare will sometimes get 'highlights' in her mane and looks more like a liver chesnut.

 

[Irishbabygirl]

I would class a brown horse to be bay with a brown mane and tail, however one of my black geldings is classed as brown due to his brown flecks in his coat not making him not a true black...

 

[Clava]

A complicated alternative thread about bays and browns!
http://www.horseforum.com/horse-colors-genetics/what-type-bay-he-picture-heavy-129411/

 

[Anglebracket]

I've been looking at this web site as my gelding is an unusual bay as he has a mix of chestnut and black hairs and dapples. I think he mught hav ethe "sooty" gene.

This page has stuff on bay and brown - looks like yours is probbly brown.

http://www.whitehorseproductions.com/ecg_basics2.html

Thank you for the link. I have had a look and my mare looks like the brown horse.

 

[TJP]

As far as i understand abay horse has a black mane, tail, legs, ear tips and muzzle, a brown horse does not. I have one who has mainly black in all those points but has a brown muzzle and is classed as brown. He also has some brown in his mane and tail.

 

[eriskaydales]

My cob is bay with black mane and tail, but has a pink muzzle so is classed as brown, always thought it came down to colour of muzzle. Is chocolate brown on passport.