Greying out.

[PapaverFollis]

October 2016 (5 years old) to April 2019 (rising 8 years old). This season we will be mostly wearing light dapple grey. And poo stains. Which can no longer be hidden. Darn it. Unless the picture is made black and white. Her back grew about a foot longer too! lol. Maybe not a foot... but at least 3 inches.

Just an excuse to post pictures really.

Show us your greying out greys!

 

[Annagain]

I really hope these photos aren't huge!

1 hour old:

2 years old:

12 years old:

18 years old:

22 years old:

I've not really noticed how much change there's been between 18 and 22 before! He's much whiter now when you compare those photos. I think once they go beyond a certain point you stop looking! I must take photos of the non digital photos I have of him between 2 and 12 too. The first two were sent to us by his breeder when she tracked us down.

 

[albeg]

Love seeing the progression of the greys!

Overload coming up! Don't have anything of him before approx 5yo, but have 13 years of grey/white.
His sales photo / First winter (2006-2007) / Summer 2007 - dark knees!
More Summer 2007 / Autumn 2008

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Autumn 2009 / Winter 2010 - still some colour on the knees / Summer 2011 - still there
Summer 2012 - almost all white / Summer 2013 - all white

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Just for fun - turned dark grey last year...

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And the reason he's rarely actually white...

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[PapaverFollis]

Lovely greys. Do you think the covering themselves in mud is like us using antiwrinkle cream? Trying to reclaim their youth? Lol

I'm going back to the computer to get pics of Granny horse too.

 

[Annagain]

M isn't too bad with the mud. He's more a of poo stains kind of guy. His brother (from another mother) however.....

I didn't show any photos of him greying out as he was totally white when I bought him at 9 so hasn't changed.

 

[albeg]

Lovely greys. Do you think the covering themselves in mud is like us using antiwrinkle cream? Trying to reclaim their youth? Lol

I'm going back to the computer to get pics of Granny horse too.

Mine is convinced of the benefits of a good mud bath anyway!! Either that or he's trying to rediscover his inner chestnut!

 

[PapaverFollis]

Granny horse at 14 years not too long after I first got her.

And last spring just turned 22 years. Still a tiny hint of dark hairs in her mane but for the most part completely white.

Miss my Granny horse. :-(

 

[PapaverFollis]

Oh! And...

 

[albeg]

Granny horse at 14 years not too long after I first got her.

And last spring just turned 22 years. Still a tiny hint of dark hairs in her mane but for the most part completely white.

Miss my Granny horse. :-(

She was a gorgeous girl. Sending you HHO hugs.

 

[JanetGeorge]

I have 40 shades of grey on my place - and it used to be more than 60, lol.

This is one of my stallions as a foal - whose father was dark bay at 17 - so I lived in hope.



Much darker at backing - at 4





The first clue was when he was 7 - a foal by him out f a chestnut mare was definitely grey.

Now he's 11 - still not showing the dirt too badly.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

GrayMo as:

2yo in America described on his passport as gray/roan

5yo not been in Britain long.

7yo

8yo

12yo

15yo - the shetland is 28yo in that picture. I have had him since he was 11yo and he was fully white then too.

 

[PapaverFollis]

Gorgeous. I love a grey thoroughbred. So elegant.

I wish The Beast had stayed darker, longer JanetGeorge! I feel like I haven't had long enough not having to sponge off poo stains! lol

 

[Chinchilla]

Diva's daughter. Few hours old, few days, long yearling, five year old. (She's eeGgLPlpPATN1patn1 for the colour genetics peeps!) Her colt is greying out too I think but I don't have any photos of him that show the change.

 

[joosie]

Part 1, can't upload all in one post!

Baby pics (L-R) - 7 months, 18 months, 2.5yrs, first earshot 4yrs


5yrs - winter coat (left) summer coat (right)



6yrs - winter coat, summer coat, earshot

 

[joosie]

7yrs, first year the summer and winter coats were more or less the same colour



9yrs, summer (left) and winter (right)



And finally 11yrs - the earshot is a bit different to the first one isn't it!

 

[Chippers1]

These are all really impressive! And sad, I love a dark grey.

I don't have too many as I have no young photos but here he is as a gangly 5/6 year old (sent from previous owners)


Then the day I got him


This time last year



Then this I took yesterday


His legs are slowly getting lighter!

He definitely is less chubby than he was though...

 

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October 2016 (5 years old) to April 2019 (rising 8 years old). This season we will be mostly wearing light dapple grey. And poo stains. Which can no longer be hidden. Darn it. Unless the picture is made black and white. Her back grew about a foot longer too! lol. Maybe not a foot... but at least 3 inches.

Just an excuse to post pictures really.

Show us your greying out greys!

How big and what breed is she? Her face is so like my Winnie woos.

 

[PapaverFollis]

How big and what breed is she? Her face is so like my Winnie woos.

16.2hh and erm, Irish War Cob? (i.e. no idea other than "bred in Ireland") I assume Irish Draught or Irish Draught cross.

 

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I've got a 14.2 version 😂

 

[Meowy Catkin]

I've posted pics of my grey before, but hopefully you're not all bored to tears with her.

She's trying to 'chestnut out' these days.

 

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2010 age 2

2013 age 5

2019 age 11

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Gray today ... #twat

 

[kinnygirl1]

Stanley

 

[Cornish]

Age 3.5, first ride; first dressage age 4.5; dressage, spring of 5 yo; xc summer of 5yo; (the very dark stabled pic is winter of 3 - slightly out of order!)

 

[Cornish]

spring of 6 yo (I bought the pic); summer of 6 yo; christmas of 6 yo - this spring has seen her dapples come through very clearly, her forelock is totally white now and there is little colour on face, just a bit of shading. Legs are still v dark to the knee and starting to change above)

 

[PapaverFollis]

Lovely mare, Cornish.

 

[Cornish]

Lovely mare, Cornish.

Thank you She's been a bit of an eye-opener! An interesting journey but she's taught me lots...