Fun poll. What is your favourite colour horse?

What is your favourite colour horse?

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Mare has a cream dun father whose father and mother were yellow dun and mouse dun her mother was mouse dun with a yellow dun and mouse dun mother and father sisters were all mouse dun brothers all yellow dun she is as far as I know the only full brother/ sister that is cream like her dad. She is almost pink when changing her coat very similar to a very light palomino and has in the past been described as such. She has dark brown eyes and a black skin. If she is grey which I very much doubt my guess would be that the mouse dun is the culprit but I am not sure how as they are grulla is grulla grey then
 
Well, I know nothing at all about genetics but I'm a sucker for a palomino, black with white socks, dark liver chestnut with flaxen mane and tail and silver dapple :)
 
JFTD said:
FWIW, Faracat, I'd rather F's passport recorded his base colour too. I just wouldn't sneer at someone in the street who called him a grey dun not a black-grey-dun :p
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No I wouldn't either. I'm more than happy for non horse people to call my flaxen chestnut 'the ginger one with the blonde mane', I know which horse they mean and I would happily use that description myself if I wanted to point him out to someone non horsey. :) I would like horses to be correctly identified in their passports though.
 
Faracat said:
No I wouldn't either. I'm more than happy for non horse people to call my flaxen chestnut 'the ginger one with the blonde mane', I know which horse they mean and I would happily use that description myself if I wanted to point him out to someone non horsey. :) I would like horses to be correctly identified in their passports though.
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See I'd just say "the round, hairy one that'll snog you as soon as you walk in the field" if I wanted to make sure they got the right pony :p
 
Any colour as long as it's shiny!!! I do love my boy though...even though I have no idea what colour he is!
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Dark brown with coffee lined ears, a black nose, a dorsal stripe, a silver leg and a red mane and tail in certain light. But always super shiny!
 
KatPT said:
Any colour as long as it's shiny!!! I do love my boy though...even though I have no idea what colour he is!
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Dark brown with coffee lined ears, a black nose, a dorsal stripe, a silver leg and a red mane and tail in certain light. But always super shiny!
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I know a smoky black that has pale fur inside her ears. Do you know what colour his parents were? Could either of them have passed cream onto him? IIRC he's part PRE and part welsh and both breeds have cream.
 
Wagtail said:
Ah now I see why you're confused. Typo. I was editing what I had written and didn't see the typo.
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I will say, your question makes more sense if you substitute grey for dun. Although I probably answered it with the "phenotypically relevant" comments, though like FC I do think that should be recorded in the passport.

Faracat said:
I should have said that my description is generally preceded by 'stay away from.' ;) :p
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Haha :D
 
windand rain said:
Mare has a cream dun father whose father and mother were yellow dun and mouse dun her mother was mouse dun with a yellow dun and mouse dun mother and father sisters were all mouse dun brothers all yellow dun she is as far as I know the only full brother/ sister that is cream like her dad. She is almost pink when changing her coat very similar to a very light palomino and has in the past been described as such. She has dark brown eyes and a black skin. If she is grey which I very much doubt my guess would be that the mouse dun is the culprit but I am not sure how as they are grulla is grulla grey then
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Grulla or grullo is simply black + dun, as far as I'm aware, so essentially 'black dun'.

Highland colours confuse me so much. I'm guessing yellow dun is bay dun, mouse dun is black dun and not sure of cream dun. I always thought that would mean they carried grey but I'm not sure of the specific breed terminology.

If you want to be sure, the animal genetics lab in Cornwall does a grey test for about £20.
 
SatsumaGirl said:
Grulla or grullo is simply black + dun, as far as I'm aware, so essentially 'black dun'.

Highland colours confuse me so much. I'm guessing yellow dun is bay dun, mouse dun is black dun and not sure of cream dun. I always thought that would mean they carried grey but I'm not sure of the specific breed terminology.

If you want to be sure, the animal genetics lab in Cornwall does a grey test for about £20.
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My other is cream dun, I think. I ought to get him tested as I don't really know what he carries. Be surprised if he didn't have the grey gene though (both parents have greyed out).
 
not that bothered really just don't know where the grey could come from if no grey parent but hey ho I will never understand the ins and outs She certainly isn't grey as I know it she has creamy white fur but not the bluish tinge most greys have and has never been anything other than dun until she went this creamy pinkish white colour almost looks magnolia white in some lights and has clear dapples when her coat changes
JFTD what colour were his grandparents as this is where I find it hard to follow all four of my mares grandparents are dun
 
JFTD said:
My other is cream dun, I think. I ought to get him tested as I don't really know what he carries. Be surprised if he didn't have the grey gene though (both parents have greyed out).
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So is 'cream dun', in Highland terminology, a dun of some sort that also carries grey?

In Highland terms (as I know they are different) what would yours have been classed as? Did you say he was black based? So was he mouse dun, going grey? It makes things very confusing! ;) As the owner of three merle Border collies, it reminds me of Dachshunds and Chihuahuas classing it as 'dapple' in their breeds.

WaR
Grey works on any base so it doesn't necessarily have to have the blue tinge. I've known a palomino who went grey so looked a lot lighter than the average grey and at times, had the apricot-y tinge, as she went through the stages. To make things more confusing, there was a palomino (with grey) used as an example on another forum and it actually went very very dark through its greying and at times, you would've sworn it was a grey with a black/bay base.

I wonder if one parent was actually grey and went under the radar or wasn't registered correctly. Unless there is some unknown dilution at work, as Wagtail said. Only way to be sure is to test them both, I guess.
 
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SatsumaGirl said:
So is 'cream dun', in Highland terminology, a dun of some sort that also carries grey?

In Highland terms (as I know they are different) what would yours have been classed as? Did you say he was black based? So was he mouse dun, going grey? It makes things very confusing! ;) As the owner of three merle Border collies, it reminds me of Dachshunds and Chihuahuas classing it as 'dapple' in their breeds.
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This is my cream dun. He's different from Fergs, but not sure genetically. Fergs is black-based grey dun.

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Not the best pic but I'm too lazy to trawl through fb for a better one!

eta - merle collies are fab. Mine's a sable though :D
 
I am not sure it is the term most commonly used for foals born with the dark cream coat and black points dorsal stripe and zebra markings not all go white although quite a few do but if that was the case would not at least one grandparents have to be grey
 
I love billy's markings, mainly over the shoulder and then a splash on his bum!
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(Sorry no stood up pics but white finishes at front of saddle) interestingly his white marks are expanding - the white patch on his rump is gaining an extra strip of white hair over his rump and there is a new patch of white on his side! Very strange lol.

However in general i'm not a fan of coloureds - they must have no feather and be sport types, preferably nicely marked with a solid head :) I prefer solid colours, especially bright bays and dark duns, or a dapple grey :) i do like silver as well - would be a bit rare in ireland though :p
 
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Faracat said:
I know a smoky black that has pale fur inside her ears. Do you know what colour his parents were? Could either of them have passed cream onto him? IIRC he's part PRE and part welsh and both breeds have cream.
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If I remember correctly his sire is in his passport as black and his dam as bay but I can't really remember, I'll have a nosy tomorrow. He is down as dark bay in his passport but I think he's a bit more random than that!
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
Sorry, I'm being numpty: but am not sure what "buckskin" is????

Unfortunately my favourite isn't on the list: I've always dreamed of having a Palomino.......... it wasn't there :(
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Imagine a 'dun' connemara or Welshie and that's a buckskin. Genetically it's a Bay horse with one copy of cream and therefore has nothing to do with the Dun gene even though it looks similar to a Bay Dun.

ETA - thanks PMP - great photo examples. :D
 
Colour is so fascinating.

I've always had a soft spot for palominos, but have ended up with a blue and white cob (who has completely faded, so you only know he is coloured when you can see his different coloured skin) and a bright bay. Used to think bays were boring but now I love how easily they are to keep clean and shiny!
 
Had to vote for roan. I currently have four and bred another 3. I am also a sucker for a nice dun, hoping for one next year! :)

Love chestnuts too, particularly the real red ones, stunning. Have a soft spot for pally's as well, used to show them for my friend.
 
Chestnut :) preferably a dark liver chestnut! Flaxen mane and tail i can live with but i prefer them without - the gelding i ride had a "curly blonde" mane and a half grey half flaxen tail! He's an odd ball though in all ways :p
 
Dark red Chestnuts for me - but I love Palominos & Duns too :)

My least faves are coloureds & greys but I ended up with a grey and I really don't mind now - he's a sweetie. (Although I'd be more than happy if his mane tail & legs never grey out ;p )

As the saying goes, "a good horse is never a bad colour."

Any excuse for a pic haha

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All time fave is a nice, 50/50marked Piebald...rather like other coloureds too.
A nice shiny black or bright bay with black points are nice.
Least faves are Cremellos/palominos/greys...most light colours really :/
 
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