It's a bloomin BAY ROAN.

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I'm bored and was surching through some horses for sale and thought I would do a search for Strawberry roan ponies. I love that colour and wanted to see some pics of some pritty ponies. Anyway on doing the search and viewing the ads almost half the ponies where actualy BAY ROAN. Does no one know the diffrence between the colours anymore or am I compleatly wrong :confused::confused: I was under the impression Herbs was a bay roan but if these people are right he is a pink pony. :confused:
But as if that was bad enough I found one advertised as strawberry roan and it was quite clearly chestnut :rolleyes: Do they just hope everyone who comes to view the pony is colour blind :p ;) :D :D.
LOL It's raining and can you tell how bored I am.
Rant over. :cool:
 
Bay roan - white and bay mixed mane/tail will be black and legs will have black points
strawbrry roan - chestnut and white mixed, chesnut mane/tail, no black points
blue roan - black/dark grey and white mixed, with black mane/tail and black points.

So LW - You are right, there IS a difference!!
 
Lippyx Yay someone who knows the diffrence. Honestly it's so obvious but I wonder how many people think the are actualy getting a strawberry roan pony. I know it's not the end of the world calling a pony the wrong colour but it's just one of those things that bugs me. LOL
 
LauraWheeler said:
Lippyx Yay someone who knows the diffrence. Honestly it's so obvious but I wonder how many people think the are actualy getting a strawberry roan pony. I know it's not the end of the world calling a pony the wrong colour but it's just one of those things that bugs me. LOL
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I agree LW. It like the colour chart of learning about horses, is not so important any more! It was one of the first things I learnt when I was younger!!

I am now in the process of teaching my 2 yr old niece the correct colours. She has just learnt piebald!!
 
What colour would you call this?
He was black and white as a baby, previous owner gave me cute pics :D

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I would call him blue and white too. He'll have coloured patches on his skin for life - so he's officially a "coloured" horse, although I would imagine that the "blue" patches will grey out over time and that eventually he'll look to all intents and purposes just like a normal grey until you look close up at his skin.
 
Yup blue and white - favourite colour for coloureds if that makes sense! but they do lose all their colour as they get older and eventually will "just" be white (grey!)
 
LauraWheeler said:
I know it's not the end of the world calling a pony the wrong colour but it's just one of those things that bugs me. LOL
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It can make all the difference selling to colour snobs, believe me, that's why I don't buy bays unless they are BOGOFs.
If I can call a bog standard dark chestnut and white pony a sooty palomino overo then I can guarantee I will have more callers for him.

Nuts eh?:confused:
 
Crazydancer said:
Slightly off the roan discussion, but again about adverts - saw an ad last night for a horse that was supposedly 'dun with a flaxen mane and tail.'
Okaaaaaay...... :confused:
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could you send me the link to the advert please? The pony I just sold was chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail but had a dark brown dorsal stripe and zebra stripes, sounds liken they could be describing him!!
 
Penny was advertised as a 'strawberry roan' - she was born chestnut and is greying out. However, at this moment in time, she can easily be described as 'grey roan' - if that exists.
Meg is dark brown, but with a few white hairs running through her coat. She gets more grey hairs as each year passes, working the way from back to front - ie grey flecked flanks. Some say she is Dark Brown Roan, but technically she is Dark Brown with ''ticking'' - often seen in Welsh ponies and TB's - of which she is half and half!!
 
Faro said:
I would call him blue and white too. He'll have coloured patches on his skin for life - so he's officially a "coloured" horse, although I would imagine that the "blue" patches will grey out over time and that eventually he'll look to all intents and purposes just like a normal grey until you look close up at his skin.
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agree... my friends have a blue and white papered gelding, who aged 12 looks just grey, and only appears to be "coloured" when you clip him and can see his skin pigments.
 
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