My strange coloured Connemara

[Hoof_Prints]

Hi, just wondering if anyone has ideas about what colour my Connemara gelding is? he is fully registered, and passported as "Dun" (Buckskin). I don't have an unclipped photo, but he has a black undercoat with lots of cream flecks. You can see his buckskin colour on unclipped legs, but I've owned many buckskins and none have been so dark , they always go lighter when clipped. I assumed he may be bay, but he is covered in cream flecks and he looks nothing like any other clipped bay I've seen, or seal bay.

So any ideas welcome! he is 6yo and someone said he may be greying out, but he seems a bit old and he doesn't look like it to me.

 

[Leo Walker]

He could be buckskin with sooty. He could also be greying out really slowly, the flecks on the face normally indicate that, but hes a bit old. What colour are his parents?

 

[Hoof_Prints]

he is by Malybay Mist, out of Curraghglass Katie, I will try to find it online and see if I can find their colours

 

[LHIS]

I profess to know very little about colouring or genetics, but he looks very close to my YOs horses in colour and they are chocolate duns apparently. He's gorgeous btw!

 

[Cortez]

We call them biscuit duns here.

 

[honetpot]

I used to have a dark dun Connemara, they look almost black but have a mealy nose. The dilute gene is very Connemara but because a lot carry the grey gene they grey out when they are young.
Its possible that he has the grey gene but its working slowly.

 

[amandaparry1994]

I have this exact thing with my Irish boy! He's a gorgeous dappled dun in the summer, come winter he's practically brown. Clip him and he's steel grey....and he's 13. I've come to conclude he's just an oddball.

 

[ester]

Firstly grey usually happens tail first, he isn't going grey

he is a dark buckskin, possibly with sooty. Imagine all the different shades of bay from bright bay to seal brown, all genetically the same, add a cream gene, that doesn't over ride the original range of shading. His nose would make me think if you took the cream away he would likely be seal brown. Any summer coat pics? Clipped coats are notoriously known as the worse to assess.

I think the grey flecks is just ticking, more obvious on the dark coat. A friends horse is covered in white ticking, he is poss rabicano but not convincing and more odd than yours , even the genetics pages were confused and didn't come to a conclusion.

 

[Hoof_Prints]

Interesting thanks ! I was confused because I have never seen one go dark when clipped, I don't have a summer coat photo unfortunately, so I am just trying to guess by his unclipped legs. My other buckskins were lighter and went grey when clipped, I suppose he is just a super dark version of the others. Whatever he is, the mud blends in very well so I am happy