Fun poll. What is your favourite colour horse?

[PolarSkye]

Sorry to hijack, but I find the whole coat colour thing both fascinating and terribly confusing . . . but further up the thread, someone made the point that it would be interesting (and useful) to denote base colour on greys' passports to avoid confusion . . . but how would I know what colour Kal's base is? About seven years ago he was iron grey/dappled - when I bought him he still had dappling under his neck, a little on his flanks, some on his bottom and down his legs - now he is very, very fleabitten - fleabites mostly brown/coppery, quite a lot of chestnut/brown hairs in his tail. Skin black.

So . . . was he born chestnut?

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P.S. And the "white" parts of his coat aren't really white - he is more creamy coloured - white numnahs and bandages just make him look dirty no matter how clean he is - and those who know me even a little bit, know that I keep him very, very clean . . .

 

[SatsumaGirl]

Unless you can contact breeder (the parents' colours may help you to work it out to an extent), the best way is to colour test.

 

[bakewell]

Sorry to hijack, but I find the whole coat colour thing both fascinating and terribly confusing . . . but further up the thread, someone made the point that it would be interesting (and useful) to denote base colour on greys' passports to avoid confusion . . . but how would I know what colour Kal's base is? About seven years ago he was iron grey/dappled - when I bought him he still had dappling under his neck, a little on his flanks, some on his bottom and down his legs - now he is very, very fleabitten - fleabites mostly brown/coppery, quite a lot of chestnut/brown hairs in his tail. Skin black.


So . . . was he born chestnut?

P

P.S. And the "white" parts of his coat aren't really white - he is more creamy coloured - white numnahs and bandages just make him look dirty no matter how clean he is - and those who know me even a little bit, know that I keep him very, very clean . . .

Do you know who his parents are? That could help (unless both are grey!)... or genetic testing, not as horrifically expensive as it used to be.

 

[PolarSkye]

Unless you can contact breeder (the parents' colours may help you to work it out to an extent), the best way is to colour test.

Sadly not an option - he's Polish, bred by a small breeder who is quite likely dead by now (and doesn't speak English).

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[PolarSkye]

Do you know who his parents are? That could help (unless both are grey!)... or genetic testing, not as horrifically expensive as it used to be.

No - passport woefully uninformative (and in Polish) - no dam or sire recorded - don't even have his date of birth - just his name, gender and colour .

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[Spot_On]

I'll always have thing for spotted ponies. However, my current one is (minimal) buckskin tobiano, and I now find myself wanting another buckskin or dun!