Is she going grey?

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Risng 3 year old is showing all the signs of loosing her lovely bay coat and turning to a Grey
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Really not looking forward to the cleaning..sigh

...just double checking on here that she actually is going grey not just changing some pigment etc as Sire is unknown and she has Sclera(white showing in the in the eye's) so appalossa is a (perhaps unlikely) possiblity...

Pic below...with binoculars around here eye's and greying round the muscle

This summer
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Now

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I think the change is on the way...what do ye guys think?
and how long does it usually take youngsters to grey out?
i cant even imagine Belle as anything but a little bay at the minute!
im wondering what she'll be like as dappled and white!
 
Hmmm, tricky. I would almost say appaloosa rather than grey as normally a grey would have shown more of a change by this age and appys tend to spot out later. She also looks like she has a mottled nose which is an appy trait. Has she got striped hooves? You may well end up with a horse with a frosted blanket or snow cap. Are there any changes on her back? Can you see any raised areas in the fur, spotties tend to have more prominent spots, you can often see them sticking up slightly out of the normal hair. Keep us informed!
 
This was my mare as a 3 year old
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As a 4 yr old

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and at 13 yrs

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She was registered as bay roan when I bought her but as her mother was grey & sire dark bay, this would not have been possible. Your youngster's parentage should give you a clue what colour she may turn out
 
Can't see her going bay roan as roans have solid colour heads. And roans don't grey out unless they're grey.

I don't know if she's going grey or not, but it does look a possibility! £17.50 would tell you for sure! I was suspicious about my lad and coughed up the cash and he's not going grey
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Wow thanks guys i didnt think there would be this much intreast...i just seen the colour change around the eyes and assumed greying and put in the rest in the hopes it was something else

She is a rising 3 year old.Thought to be a connemara cross...but dam is by word of mouth a connemara,not proven as passport is blank and she was bought in a galway mart for meat money
Sire is unknown
She has 2 black hoof's on front,striped 2 on the back

Body pic now
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and one from this summer
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Head shot from summer
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One now
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She looks just like jenhunt's ron
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think he has eyes like that too!

I also had a friend whose horse had a good pair of spectacles, think we assumed that there was some appy back in his heritage not sure if something else can cause them...... he stayed bay. was 8 when she got him!
 
<font color="blue"> She looks just like jenhunt's ron </font>

I was going to say that! Think you are looking at a localised pigmentation anomaly here.

Also, the person with the pics further up - their horse had a grey bottom part to its tail - a sure sign of a grey future, no matter how long it takes.
 
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She looks just like jenhunt's ron
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think he has eyes like that too!

I also had a friend whose horse had a good pair of spectacles, think we assumed that there was some appy back in his heritage not sure if something else can cause them...... he stayed bay. was 8 when she got him!

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glenruby mentioned vitiligo in the Picture gallery to...i didnt think of that!
....methinks belle could keep surprising us yet!
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Anyone out there have a youngster like this?
Its really intreasting to see what a difference a few months can make
 
I would say she is going grey.. appaloosas dont tend to go grey round the eyes like that... UNLESS... they have a grey parent and have got the grey gene, in which case, grey spectacles are a sure sign of going grey.. (also means the spots fade)
Appaloosas often 'roan/colour out' gradually leaving the spots in place..

my stallion 'coloured out' he was born a chestnut blanket and is now a leopard..you can see his photos and change of colour on facebook... ''Mariola Appaloosas''....''Harley Album''
 
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