Horses passport does not have correct colour!!

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I have been offered a lovely pony that I have known for the last 4 years - however its passport says its liver chestnut when its grey - the markings and whorls all match barring the star and blaze as it has a white face!!

I am told it could have been chestnut as a foal - not sure what to do I know the pony is genuine!

Any advice? The plan is bring on pony and sell!!
 
Entirely possible to grey out like this - if microchipped you could check identity easily, if not the passport may have previous owners details and you could contact them to check. If you do buy obviously it would save future problems if you get the passport changed or ask current owners to get it altered as a condition of sale.
 
I'd contact the authority that issued the passport. I had this situation with my welshie and they just sent me a colour/markings chart to fill in and then they changed his passport to his new colour (born bay and turned grey) 😀
 
I had this problem with my Irish connie gelding, when I bought him he was recorded as a dun colt in his passport, he had to be DNA tested anyway for British registration, so I had the vet check out the whorls etc and correct and sign the markings page, he was then a very white grey as a four year old. (Iwish he'd stayed Dun!)
 
Common thing, especially in thoes Passported as a foal, as foals can change colour in dramatic unexpected ways. I have several much more elderly cobs who were Passported much later in life, and they have the wrong colouring on their Passports. Just make sure everything else matches up, especially Microchip if present.
 
All grey are born chestnut, black or bay so he's obviously been passported as a baby. Don't worry about it. You can get it changed if you want.
 
Get a vet to verify it do a new id and get passport changed. Normally if id done as a foal they state if they could go grey and can be updated.
 
Mine says coloured in passport, both parents were coloured, I would class mine as black as only bit of colour expect face and legs is a little patch of white on belly, strange what some ppl seem to put them down as, and your stood there thinking what?? Is thst the same horse??
 
My horse used to be an inbetween sort of colour mix, I wouldn't say he was chestnut or bay... I honestly don't know what the colour was. According to his passport he had lots of white markings too. Now he is grey none of these markings are visible. When I asked the passport people whether I would have to change the details on passport she said if there was ever any reason to check for his markings they would just dampen down the areas which would make them visible.
 
Our old pony's passport said bay, she was dapple, then went white... Its quite normal. To be sure, check the whorls are in the right place or microchip.
 
Thanks thats all very reasurring all the whorls and stocking etc clearly m0atch the only thing that does not show is the Star and strip on her face as her face is completely white.

She was passported in 2005 born 2004 no microchip!! so sounds very possible - as I know the mare I am more concerned about our ability to resell

(current owners have agreed to help with cost if I need to do anything!!)

I will ring the issusing passport agency tomorrow - hopefully just a simple change needed!:)
 
I had a grey whose passport said liver chestnut .
I did look into whether it ought to be changed but was told that it's so common with greys its never queried .
 
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