Fun poll. What is your favourite colour horse?

What is your favourite colour horse?

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JFTD said:
Grey dun. Which doesn't look anything like buckskin so I'm not ticking that.

Most beautiful animal in the world <3

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Genuine question as I'm crap with colours now, but what makes your pony a grey dun? Just looks grey to me.
 
thatsmygirl said:
Genuine question as I'm crap with colours now, but what makes your pony a grey dun? Just looks grey to me.
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Dorsal stripe which is obviously not visible in this photo and primitive markings on the legs. His stripe isn't very visible in most photos on account of his muscular quarters / conformation but you can see a hint of it here.

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thatsmygirl: The grey dun will have been a dun (not sure of base colour- possibly bay) before greying out. As grey is a modifier it's often hard to tell the original colour of the horse, before it started to grey.

Wagtail's is a buckskin, no grey there. Genetically different, caused by one copy of cream.
 
SatsumaGirl said:
thatsmygirl: The grey dun will have been a dun (not sure of base colour- possibly bay) before greying out. As grey is a modifier it's often hard to tell the original colour of the horse, before it started to grey.

Wagtail's is a buckskin, no grey there. Genetically different, caused by one copy of cream.
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He was never bay, he's always been shades of grey. But he does carry the dun gene, and that makes him dun.
 
Just to confuse things further
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both these ponies are Dun neither has a grey parent and therefore cannot be grey mother is 20 daughter is 5 but the "white" one is just very pale cream and has faded to this colour from dun
 
windand rain said:
Just to confuse things further
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both these ponies are Dun neither has a grey parent and therefore cannot be grey mother is 20 daughter is 5 but the "white" one is just very pale cream and has faded to this colour from dun
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You're going to hate me for saying it but both are grey! :P The 5yo will ultimately end up 'white' so to speak. Not being a Highland person, I believe colours have their own names within the breed- which I'm not familiar with, hence why grey probably wasn't noted. If you got them both colour tested, I promise you they will carry at least one copy of grey each.
 
I had to say coloured, specifically piebald, out of deference to my mare. Although she tells me she doesn't read HHO, the equestrian community is so small you never know! :D
 
I voted chestnut. :D I have two beautiful chestnuts and the third was chestnut until she inconveniently greyed out. ;) I used to have a seal brown mare and she was a super sweet horse, so I have a big soft spot for that colour too.
 
thatsmygirl said:
Again genuine question, looks like dark grey to me so what also makes this dark dun?
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She doesn't have the grey gene so will not grey out. Genetically she is seal brown with cream which makes her 'brown buckskin'. But yes, she looks like a dark grey, or mink colour. She just won't go paler.
 
SatsumaGirl said:
You weren't, don't worry! :) I just have issues being so anal about colours/genetics. ;) It's a weird quirk of mine- I think it comes from years of owning buckskins and telling people they're not dun. Haha.
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I sympathise. I absolutely wasn't ranting about the BHS s1 description of dun as "a yellow horse with black mane and tail which may or may not have a dorsal stripe" on facebook the other day. Not at all...
 
SatsumaGirl said:
You're going to hate me for saying it but both are grey! :P The 5yo will ultimately end up 'white' so to speak. Not being a Highland person, I believe colours have their own names within the breed- which I'm not familiar with, hence why grey probably wasn't noted. If you got them both colour tested, I promise you they will carry at least one copy of grey each.
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You will be surprised then to hear that the cream pony is from two clearly Dun ponies so doesn't carry a grey gene so neither can possibly be grey So never will and never can be grey. Mum and Dad both lived into their twenties and neither was grey
 
Well I know you said tick buckskin for dun, but my black dun pony isn't remotely like buckskin so had to choose 2nd fave, "spotty" :)
 
I know most people think of bays as boring or common but they're my favourite. I think it's the way that they gleam like bronze and change colour with the seasons. Also my pony is bay which probably has something to do with it!
 
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annagain said:
Couldn't vote as no option for "anything that doesn't show the dirt." I've had enough of dealing with this (sorry I know I've posted it before!)

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I agree they look lovely when they look like that ^^ PS - mine never does for long though :(
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Wow your horse and mine must be related they both strongly exhibit the mud monster gene! Does your also have the hippopotamus gene, mine likes to wallow in the pond with the ducks!
 
Windandrain; I am very surprised as unless it is some dilute I have never come across both horses exhibit all visible traits of carrying grey. I will eat my hat if they're not grey. ;) Not trying to come across as rude, I promise but I do believe they are grey. Sorry.


I think often, as there are various terms amongst breeds and what one person deems as A, may not be what someone else classes as the same, terminology wise, there should be some rule when passporting or registering, that all animals should be colour tested so no confusion ever arises.
 
I do love a cow pony :) Although, imo the most beautiful horse I've ever seen was my old boy Oliver, who was dark bay. He was really really dark in winter and got gorgeous dapples in the summer time. Loved his mealy muzzle too.
 
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