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I would like to hear your experiences of what colour your foals were at birth and then what colour they turned out to be as they got older :)
My ex boss's colt foal was born chesnut and is now going a pinky colour and turning grey.
Just curious :D xx. Also pics if you have them of before+after
 
This is my lad at 6 weeks old.
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He is now nearly 2 years and is this colour.
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Still not sure if he will grey out. I think he won't as he has no grey hairs anywhere.
 
My filly was born a pinky, mushroom colour and my vet said she would either be grey or a liver chestnut. She is rising 20 now and she is black. Both parents were dark bays. I have recently bought a miniature that was named Ginger by her breeder and they assumed she would be a chestnut but it looks like she is going to be palamino. Her mane was even a pale chestnut as a new born foal but is now a pure white. Her dam is coloured (brown & white), sire is palamino but both grandparents on dam's side are chestnut.
 
I had an arab gelding that was born chestnut, presumably went through the pink stage, was dapple grey when I bought him at about 8, and steadly went white. By the time he was 14 he was pure white but developing chestnut fleabites which seemed to increase in number by the day.

My palominos are always born yellow, some are born with a white mane and tail, others have blonde manes and tails, but they always go white within a few weeks.
 
I have 2 greys, one was born bay, the other chestnut. The bay still has a black mane and tail as a 13 yr old, and was roan for ages, she is still quite blue, the other was roan when I bought her, she is now flea bitten grey at 17.
 
My arab was born chestnut (Im assuming), then went a dark steel grey, fleebitten grey and is getting greyer by the day ...

This is her at 2 years old and again (now) at 11

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We have a foal due in April from her (black stallion) and not a clue what we're going to get - exciting times :D
 
My palominos are always born yellow, some are born with a white mane and tail, others have blonde manes and tails, but they always go white within a few weeks.[/QUOTE]

Thats interesting as my miniature when I first saw her at a month old was a very pale chestnut in colour and her mane was the exactly the same colour as her body but her tail was paler. She then came to me at 5 months and by then her body had become a darker colour and her mane was white and I mean a brilliant white, her tail is a creamy colour. I have assumed she will be a palamino the same as her sire. I am not very good with colours and her breeder seemed to think she would end up as a chestnut with flaxen mane and tail but we will see what her summer coat brings. Doesn't matter to us what colour she ends up really.
 
Black or dark brown horses are usually born a sort of mushroom colour, greys can be born bay, black, chestnut, but you will usually see the greying starting when they start to lose their baby fluff after a couple of weeks; look around the eyes and muzzle. A few simple colour genetics "rules": a grey horse MUST have at least one grey parent, but not all grey-to-grey matings result in grey offspring; chestnut to chestnut always produces a chestnut. There are lots of others, and nowadays you can DNA test for colour producing traits.
 
Cortez as you seem to know about colour do you think our miniature will be palamino, her mum is a coloured (brown & white) her dad is palamino. Her grandparents on her mum's side are both chestnut and on her sire's side grandparents were palamino and a chestnut? When I learn how to post photos I will take some and put them on here. At the moment her coat is a pale chestnut but has gone darker from when she was born but her mane is a pure white, her tail is cream.
 
Sounds like a pale palomino, but without pics I really can't tell.....Could be a chestnut with flaxen mane and tail. Palamino used to be really difficult to breed true (i.e palamino to palamino) but since colour genetics and DNA teamed up it's now a lot easier to predict.
 
Her breeder thinks pale chestnut with flaxen mane and tail and that is how she is described on her passport but when you look under the long winter coat she is quite pale near the skin but her face and legs are a lot darker. Well we will see what colour her summer coat is and either way she is a lovely little thing and we are very pleased with her doesn't matter what colour she ends up. Thankyou for you input.
 
Cortez said:
Black or dark brown horses are usually born a sort of mushroom colour, greys can be born bay, black, chestnut, but you will usually see the greying starting when they start to lose their baby fluff after a couple of weeks; look around the eyes and muzzle. A few simple colour genetics "rules": a grey horse MUST have at least one grey parent, but not all grey-to-grey matings result in grey offspring; chestnut to chestnut always produces a chestnut. There are lots of others, and nowadays you can DNA test for colour producing traits.
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Cortez, based on this, do you think my boy on page 1 will stay black? He has no grey around the eyes or anywhere else.
 
Slave2Magic said:
Cortez, based on this, do you think my boy on page 1 will stay black? He has no grey around the eyes or anywhere else.
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If it will help my filly was a little pinker than yours but yes she has stayed black and she is rising 20 now so don't think she will change now unless she becomes grey in old age. She looks a very dark brown in the winter but her summer coat is a glossy black.
 
Just had another close look at your photo and I would say my mare does not have the brown in the mane as yours does, her's is all black. Not sure if that is significant or not.
 
I've got a black mare who was born dark grey, and she's just had a bay foal by a grey stallion. I had a bay mare who had two foals by different grey stallions - one was born liver chesnut and is now at six, steel grey, and the other was born dun, and at 4 is a bluey-grey.
 
My mare never had the pale colour in her mane but as both parents were bays I assumed she would be too it was only as her coat got darker and darker as she got older that I realised she was going to be black. She was completely black by the time she was about a year old. Are you in contact with his breeder and if so what do they think? They may have bred from the same parents before and will have a good idea what colour he will eventually mature to.
 
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