Has your horse changed colour??? mine did

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I bought Diamond as a dun 15 month old filly because she was a dun my fav colour

i have pictures of her EVERY year like her son and she started changing at the age of 3. grey hairs started she still has flecks on her of the dun colour and her legs have redish dun colour on would love to know if any 1 else has had this. her mum was grey and dad chesnut and i know one of her brothers was like her dun he prob changed too. any 1 elses horse now a different colour????????:D
 
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Do you leave your passport the same or get it changed and how?
Her's says roan but she cahnges in summer to grey and then winter dappled grey. Any ideas?
 
ColandMe said:
My black boy is gradually going mahogany.
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If your black boy is a genuine black and not going grey but reddish brown, then he might have copper deficiency. Worth a check, it's not a "normal" colour change. No panic, not life threatening and easy to supplement.
 
Here is diamond at 2 years old and diamond at 21 ( 2 years

ago) note the pink snip on her nose
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Diamonds passport came out after the change tho her freezemark still says dun you can still see her mark from time to time when she goes dunified but i did have it redone on her shoulder bald
 
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She is a grey. All greys start out a different colour, be they chestnut, bay, black, dun or buckskin. Then they grey out. It is a masking gene, not a true colour gene. 50% of offspring from a hetrozygous grey will be grey.
 
Yep. Ari was born chestnut with four white socks and a star - hence his hideous real name of 'Caramelo' (Toffee). He is now dapple grey in his summer coat and much lighter in his winter coat. His dapples are still pink rather than grey and in the summer he has a definitely rosy rump!

FB is like Fairy Dust's horse - bay in the winter, orange in the summer!
 
My filly was born light bay with snow capping on her rump. Her first moult turned her steel grey with bay spots on the snow cap, she went bay roan that winter and was much the same come summer. She went grey again last winter and is now bay roan again with extended blanket spots onto her shoulders! She is nothing like her passport so thank goodness for freezemarking and micro chips! Her mum was a very dark bay and dad a chestnut leopard spot, strangely she looks like her grandfather.
 
cptrayes said:
If your black boy is a genuine black and not going grey but reddish brown, then he might have copper deficiency. Worth a check, it's not a "normal" colour change. No panic, not life threatening and easy to supplement.
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Interesring, didn't know that, thanks. Not sure if he's a genuine black tbh, he's just 4 so thought maybe he was changing slightly as he got older or the sun might be lightening his coat. He still looks black but when I brush him he looks to be changing slightly. Will look into the copper deficiency though, I presume there will be a supplement for it.
 
Copper Trition, from anywhere, or much cheaper Copper Bioplex (1 gramme per day for a horse) from Forageplus.

He might just be fading in the sun, mine do, but if you have cows near you that look like they should be black but are going red, that's copper deficiency. His bare nose skin should be black if he's a genuine black. If not, he's a brown/black or a black/bay, not sure what the difference is between those two but I've seen TBs described both ways at auctions.
 
This is Ted.

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with my daughter.

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Taking his bucket for a walk, you can just see the browniness coming through, not much but changing slighlty.

Please ignore his portliness, trying to get it off, hindered by the fact I can't do anything with him atm till I'm fully recovered.
 
That looks like normal summer colour change to me. Mine went much more red when he had too little copper. Nice pony!
 
cptrayes said:
That looks like normal summer colour change to me. Mine went much more red when he had too little copper. Nice pony!
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I thought it was perhaps summer coat or sun fading. Thank you, he's a little gem, never known such a sweet, gentle, loving baby before.
 
My Shetland was almost black (registered as blue roan) when I bought him as a yearling.

Was like this at about 5yrs old:

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And white by 10yrs old:

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Think that's fairly normal though....
 
The current Appy was solid chesnut when she was born (photo on passport) she was still solid coloured when I bought her, age 9, five years on she is roaning out and has developed spots on her shoulders when she was changing coat this spring :)
 
cant ask for refund now lol its been 21 and half years since i bought her. she still has some very rosy parts on her . jeeeeeepers thats the first time i written that and thought about wow long time ...........
 
Evelyn said:
In her early pics I would have described her as a rose grey - she must definately be grey to have faded out like she has.
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no she was def toffee dun with dorsal stripe even farmkey said she was when they freezemarked her in 1989 the colour of toffee dep colour her mum was dappled and then turned white stripes diamond had stripes on her legs here she is at 15 month old picture of her she had only one white foot and a star thats all the white she had on her the rest of her was solid coloured caramel colour
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definition of a Grey A 'rose grey' is horse who has chestnut hairs interspersed with the white hairs
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she had NO WHITE HAIRS till she was 3 apart from her 1 while leg and a star i have her 3 year old pictures which show her turning in fact i have every picture taken on her birthday since 15 months old

she WAS 100% called dun till she was 8 ish we didn't coloured's classes and sis well against other duns
 
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