Haflingers - bug bear

[charmaine]

Why do people keep insisting on saying haflingers are palomino in colour. Surely they are chestnuts with flaxen mane and tails aren't they or am I getting it wrong?

 

[rara007]

I am pretty sure they look palimino, although I guess genetics make them chestnut..
I guess dark coloured Haffies look a light chestnut with flaxen mane.

 

[samstar]

A Haflinger's color runs the full range of chestnut and can be from a blonde to a golden palomino to a chocolate color. The manes and tails are usually very luxurious and colored between white and flaxen.

 

[Eira]

Woo for Wiki

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Haflingers are always chestnut in color, and come in shades ranging from a light gold to a rich golden chestnut or liver hue. The mane and tail are white or flaxen

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[L00bey]

My friend has a gorgeous haffy called Harvey- If you saw him you would say pally but his passport says ginger

 

[samstar]

it was far quicker

 

[Diggerdog]

Haflingers are chestnut with flaxen mane & tail, not palomino.

If you breed a Haflinger to a Haflinger, you will always get the same colour. If their genetic colour was palomino, you would get 50% in the usual colour, 25% cremello and 25% "proper" chestnut.

 

[samstar]

tell google that then.

 

[LindaW]

Haflingers don't carry the cream gene, which is what makes chestnut horses palomino (if they get 1 copy. if they get 2 - one from each parent they become cremello).

They are chestnut horses, and never palomino.