Horse colour variations.

[teresagarsden]

I am loving this :O)

 

[iAMASHOWJUMPER]

And my friends silver bay ( hes for sale ;-( )

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he's stunning! what breed is he?!

 

[QueenOfCadence]

I have a sooty palomino (was informed of it here on HHO by another member XD. Can't remember who though). It makes perfect sense, but for years I strongly believed that there was no name for his colour

You must excuse his lovely tail in this next pic - he thinks it's hilarious to scrape his tail against trees the day before a show

 

[Shantara]

I love this colour!

Not a horse, but an albino Zebby!

 

[merlinmagic]

Colour genetics are fantastic - Wouldn't we all love a short course/ Demo on colours and their variations. Anyone with suitable knowledge like to set one up ? Just make sure you come to wiltshire !! lol

My old mare was stunning - a very rich and deep proper gold palomino but had chocolate brown dapples all over with a steel grey mane and tail - any idea what this would have been called?

 

[Enfys]

Colour genetics are fantastic - Wouldn't we all love a short course/ Demo on colours and their variations. Anyone with suitable knowledge like to set one up ? Just make sure you come to wiltshire !! lol

My old mare was stunning - a very rich and deep proper gold palomino but had chocolate brown dapples all over with a steel grey mane and tail - any idea what this would have been called?

Photo?

Generally, so I am told, so don't take this as gospel, any grey hairs in mane and tail indicate 'sooty'

Scroll down for sooty pictures: http://greenfield.fortunecity.com/dreams/799/hc/palomino.htm
http://www.ultimatehorsesite.com/colors/palomino.html
Chocolate palomino: http://www.doubledilute.com/palomino.htm

 

[**Vanner**]

Oh my lord - that is beyond delicious!!!!

 

[Enfys]

Oh my lord - that is beyond delicious!!!!

He'd be better if he were all that colour though

I wonder if he will grey out in time?

 

[Stinkbomb]

And my friends silver bay ( hes for sale ;-( )

he's stunning! what breed is he?![/QUOTE]

They are both miniature horses

 

[JFTDWS]

And a bonus picture of fany too

Who doesn't love it when FDC posts photos of her Fany?

 

[SWTeke]

Smokey buckskin

Buckskin

Chestnut sabino with one blue eye

Cremello

Another cremello

Sooty buckskin with one blue eye (foreground)

Smokey buckskin

Perlino

Didn't realize quite how much variety we had on the farm. Plus part of the breed can be having a metallic sheen to the coat, making these variations all the more beautiful

 

[supaspot]

This is a silver bay tobiano

and a bit more grown up as a yearling

has he been tested ? Im sorry but I cant see silver in him at all , it looks like a bay foal coat with sun bleaching
this is a typical silver bay colour-see how the legs have a slight charcoal affect , silver bay can come in a slightly darker shade and have silver mane and tail , the mare in the centre is silver black and the horse in my avatar is silver smoky black

 

[stylemichelle21]

Smokey buckskin

Buckskin

Chestnut sabino with one blue eye

Cremello

Another cremello

Sooty buckskin with one blue eye (foreground)

Smokey buckskin

Perlino

Didn't realize quite how much variety we had on the farm. Plus part of the breed can be having a metallic sheen to the coat, making these variations all the more beautiful

You certainly have a lot of variety! The cremellos are beautiful.

 

[Megibo]

Love the Pangare haflinger and the little badgerfaced cob Some stunning horses

ditto they were sooo cute

 

[Megibo]

mine looks sort of like a sooty bay, but i think she's just normal!

in summer she is very light bay with faint dapples, and in winter very dark bay with obvious dapples though this year before being clipped she had a red tinge to her

 

[Spring Feather]

I have a reverse brindle rabicano. No photos but the horse is jet black with golden brindling and a light grey tail. It's not attractive to me but other people seem to find it intriguing.

 

[TuscanBunnyGirl]

Would you say she's just a dapple grey?

 

[Spring Feather]

Would you say she's just a dapple grey?

What d'you mean JUST dapple grey dapple greys are beautiful!! I digress, yes she looks dapple grey, probably born chestnut hence the reddish hue.

 

[TuscanBunnyGirl]

What d'you mean JUST dapple grey dapple greys are beautiful!! I digress, yes she looks dapple grey, probably born chestnut hence the reddish hue.

haha sorry i mean "Could she be a magnificent dapple grey?! "

She does seem to have a reddish tinge to her so was wondering if anyone thought there might be something else going on

 

[Spring Feather]

haha sorry i mean "Could she be a magnificent dapple grey?! "

And the answer would be "why of course madam, she is mightily magnificent"

 

[rhino]

Have just found this picture - any ideas?

 

[Potato!]

Apparently my haffys pangare! I didnt know, but somebody on here (sorry can't remember who!) told me, I always wondered why he wasn't solid like other haffys.

My haffie was like that as was every other haffie i have known

 

[soloequestrian]

Great link!

My chestnut mare gets Birdcatcher spots - at the moment she is sporting one that looks like a teardrop tattoo under one eye, very punk!

 

[arizonahoney]

Brownbread Stud have some very strikingly coloured HIPO's...

 

[meandmyself]

They didn't talk about Rose Greys!
Some beautiful horses.
I never knew you could get brindle horses!!!

Rose grey is caused by a chestnut going grey.

 

[Enfys]

has he been tested ? Im sorry but I cant see silver in him at all , it looks like a bay foal coat with sun bleaching
this is a typical silver bay colour-see how the legs have a slight charcoal affect , silver bay can come in a slightly darker shade and have silver mane and tail , the mare in the centre is silver black and the horse in my avatar is silver smoky black

Yep, been tested by the people who bought him. Doesn't have a black hair on him, I'd just call him a dark chestnut myself actually, but there you go, people want to know so much more nowadays don't they? He's still just a damn good kids pony regardless of what colour he is.

 

[Ibblebibble]

Wow there are some gorgeous horses on this thread i didn't even know you could get brindle in horses,
it is all so complicated nowadays, glad it was simpler when i was at college and we touched on colour genetics, i found that confusing enough lol, now it would blow my mind

 

[Polotash]

Love that link! The bay arab with white streaking and the bridles are GORG!

Also found out my TB mare has "Bend Or" spots which I never knew before!

 

[cob&onion]

y cob is quite unusual, classed as a tobiano skewbald in her chaps passport. In the summer she is grey Mottled and very very white with pink skin and jet black ears and a solid white/pink face!!

My welsh colt is dark bay/black and in the winter has a lighter colour between his legs and under his belly - almost like a grey colour, his mane was very bleached in the summer so all the ends are tinted orange

 

[miss_c]

Interesting, particularly the Chimera.

There is a member on here, sorry, I know who you are, not your HHO name though, who has a skewbald horse with very distinctive chestnut patches like that.

Do you mean my Titchy, Enfys?