Do Rose Greys

[Alphamare]

Also white out with age?

I am looking at a rose grey mare who is gorgeous regardless of colour but i spotted the threads below about colour and it got me thinking.

Thanks

 

[SirenaXVI]

Yes

 

[LittleSoph]

Yeh, as far as I was aware, all greys will eventually grey out to white. That goes for steel greys, rose greys, blue and whites...

 

[Izzwizz]

Had my grey 4yrs now, shes 15 in April. When I got her she was quite dapplely but its weird, you dont notice them losing their colour. Perhaps because you see them every day, I only noticed really when looking back at photos. Her chestnut flecks are coming out now and she still looks gorgeous!!

 

[Alphamare]

bugger

Its such a nice colour

 

[VioletStripe]

Mhm, in my experience yes!

my friend used to have a lovely rose grey highland, he hit around 16 and just got whiter! xx

 

[jessamess]

Yes... they usually go flee bitten

xx

 

[Sue456]

I have had my Connemara cross pony since he was a 2 y.o.(now 12) and he still retains a lot of the liver chesnut color but the "background" is getting lighter. An Irishman told me they never lose all their color as do the "regular" blue and black greys.

 

[hussar]

Yes, my Arab was rose grey - almost chestnut in places - when I got him aged 3. He's now 11 and is almost white over his head, neck and shoulders, with very pretty dappling over his hindquarters but as both his parents are now pure 'white' I expect him to lose the dappling eventually. My avatar shows him 2 years ago.

 

[mik]

ditto with all above, my rose grey was WHITE at 18.

 

[Luci07]

Mine is getting a little more flea bitten (hes now 9) but still retains a lot of the colouring over his rump. He looks almost blue in the summer and rather pink in the winter!

 

[SirenaXVI]

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Yes... they usually go flee bitten

xx

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They don't always, my rose grey is now almost pure white, on the other hand, my old girl, who was born chesnut and then went dappled grey, is very flea bitten.

 

[Perissa]

As a chestnut foal

A very pink 3 year old

A whiting out 6 year old

And finally an almost snow white 9 year old

 

[SirenaXVI]

Mine did the same

As a yearling - chocolate dun

As a 4yo - very pink

5yo - greying

10 - almost pure white

There is a theory, and it is only a theory as yet, that heterozygous greys grey out slower than homozygous, in my experience I would agree with this.

 

[Twirly]

As per everyone else - yes, bought my yearling passported as bay roan, she went through a lovely dappled golden dun looking phase when she was 4-5 then got pinker and pinker and finally flea bitten. When she died (aged 10) last year she had a flea bitten face and lovely pink dapples.

Very pretty x

 

[alsxx]

Not te best picture (taken when he was about 5), but Chips went grey: