I'll admit it... I'm a grey person.

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EquiGirl1

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My older horse is grey, I swore I would never have another one, the grass stains, mud stains, tail goes yellow stains, hours spent cleaning, oh what I would do for a bay I'd say. So now I have a bay as well, clean 1 white sock and a rinse of the tail and we are good to go BUT I just went through my photo album of the boy, done in ages order from 4yrs to now and he was so beautiful when he was younger! Practically black when I bought him, gorgeous steal grey roan colour in the summers, he stayed dark for ages, getting medium colour dapple when he was about 10, he lost the last of his dapple a couple years ago is now completely flea bitten though still is dark from the hocks down aged 16. Yes he took ages to clean, and for a while I considered taking shares out in blue whitening shampoo but when he was clean he looked magical and stood out in the sea of bays at competitions!

He has black skin so his coat though fleabitten is sliver not white and is mane & tail are completely silver. The kids at the yard say he looks like he has a unicorn when its clean (though at the moment I get "I didnt realise how dirty he was until I saw him out in the snow"!!).
So yes whilst I think my bay is beautiful and I dont have to worry about cleaning I am proud to say I own a grey, I love greys, I am officially a grey convert and would absolutely love another one. :D
 
You can have mine if you want?
She's currently grey on the bits covered by her rugs and the rest of her is a mix of yellow and brown :o I'm not even going to get started on the tail ....

But in the summer when the mud dries up she's beautiful :)
 
I too have a soft spot for greys, my first horse was a grey with us from a dappled steel grey youngster to a white flea bitten old lady.
I have a grey now an excessively beauiful TB with beauiful pinky tinge to him I admired him for ages before I got the chance of buying him , I just adore him.
 
Me too!!! I LOVE them - who cares about the muddy bits, you always know that they can scrub up to become beautiful horses again! I probably wouldn't be so keen if I did showing....:eek::eek:

My grey boys have changed colour as well as they've aged - baby is still a real steel grey, older one whitening out with dappled legs and some flea bites on his neck.

I just think greys have a lovely temperament - I'm sure I've just been lucky though so I'll run away and hide now!:rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
I love them too - I have two! Both are quite young though so still have the full pain of a "white" horse to experience (though I did have one when I was a kid!!)

My mare is rugged to eyeballs, full head + ears hood on order but at the moment due to the white stuff on the ground she is sooooo clean it is wonderful!
 
ive got 2 greys and they are so light they are both almost snow white:D very luckily they are both incredibly clean horses and oooh they look so good when they are clean and gleaming:D
 
me too :D I love a grey. My first pony was a grey arab/tb/NF cross and was gorgeous - a real fairytale horse as the arab breeding gave him a beautifully shaped face, lovely tail carriage and stunning paces to go with his lovely colour.

I don't really member the dirt bothering me, either he was exceptionally clean or I was more than happy to spend hours grooming as a teenager - probably the latter ;)
 
At the end of the day its not the colour that counts but who and what they are and that you love them to bits especially when you come down in the morning and they are green from poo and you are off to show! :)
 
I always told myself I wouldn't get a grey after the grief of keeping Rowan clean (he is technically spotty but has plenty of white to clean) but fell in Love with Inka because she has such a fantastic character and I have to admit, I do love her colour! She is only 3 and steel grey at the minute but loves to use her poo as a pillow.
At least her legs are pretty much black so should be the last to change colour so at least I will only have body head and tail to clean for a few years :P
 
I always said no greys but the best horse from my childhood was grey, Polo is (obviously) grey and is by far the most talented and amazing horse I've ever ridden and when I went to the charity to pick out a companion - can you guess the colour of by far the most suitable !!! - Yep grey too !
I'd like to think I'd rule out greys in the future but I bet I end up with more!
 
I love greys.
Heres my old boy...RIP lad. Swore I'd never get another one though, simply for the keeping clean thing......

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Heres my current boy. Hmmmm. How did that happen???:D




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I love greys. I have had my fair share of them and while I now have a chestnut and adore the brush and go I will always have a soft spot for greys. There is nothing that stands out more at a competiton then a beautiful white grey.
 
When I was horse shopping a few years ago I said I didn't want a grey, a mare or a cob.... I ended up buying a grey skewbald IDxCob mare :D She's a bog monster but is absolutely amazing so she's forgiven :p
 
I love greys. I had a white and blue mare who was a total mud monster, nightmare! I then shared a pure white Connemara and learnt the art of getting ponies spotless and inherited a cleanliness OCD, I then went and bought myself my own gorgeous grey Connemara! I definitely have a soft spot for them....
 
Me too. Got mine at 2 & she was almost black, it was only close up you could actually see she wasn't. She'll be 24 in spring, & still not completely white. Has a silvery coloured coat, mane & tail & still pretty flea-bitten. Next to a completely greyed out white pony she is clearly darker & silver, rather than white. I haven't really noticed how hard it is to keep her clean as its been such a gradual change. I don't find greys at all hard to keep clean in general, rather I find dark colours ridiculously easy. I wouldn't buy a horse purely for its colour, but given the choice or when browsing I always go for greys. Even with the melanoma problems they just have something about them.
 
I've got two greys, a bay and a black. Whilst the greys do take some cleaning, the black is actually the hardest work because of the dust which shows up in contrast to her darkness. The easiest is my lovely conker-bay. Love the snowy white horses, 'tho.
 
I would absolutely pick a grey over a bay if I had the choice of two of the same horse, I just think they are lovely and I love how it highlights their facial features and I especially like that they change colour throughout their lives.

Someone should really do a '50 shades of grey' thread and show us the colour change of their greys!
 
I love greys too, even though the one i have now is black.
We spent many happy years showing our appy x. His mane and tail looked silver when he was just bathed.
Now hubby has a little grey sec a he wants to drive when shes older.
We have a welsh b out on loan he is also grey, he was dappled when we got him, with wall eyes and a white mane and tail, so handsome!!
 
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