Name for a Dun Mare

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Need some help with a name for a Dun mare, shes an ID x.
I quite like Cookie Crumble or Cookies 'n' Cream, every name I think of has either a food or drink theme, need some inspiration. Thanks.
 
allatno10 said:
Need some help with a name for a Dun mare, shes an ID x.
I quite like Cookie Crumble or Cookies 'n' Cream, every name I think of has either a food or drink theme, need some inspiration. Thanks.
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My sister had a beautiful yellow dun mare, years ago, she called her Britvic! The mare was slightly nuts too so the fizziness of the name suited her as well as the 'yellow' colour! :D
 
allatno10 said:
She's a Dun.
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Are you sure? Not many breeds have the true dun gene (ID doesn't). It's actually more likely that she's buckskin (cream gene).

Buckskin
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Also buckskin
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She's got the dark line going down her back, she's not as cream as the picture above, now you've got me thinking, she could be buckskin, just brought her and waiting for the vetting to be done, she's being sold as a Dun. 😳
 
What is her breeding?
Dun & Buckskin are the result of different genes that happen to look similar in some shades.
Very few British breeds have the dun gene but several use the term when buckskin is correct.
 
allatno10 said:
She's got the dark line going down her back, she's not as cream as the picture above, now you've got me thinking, she could be buckskin, just brought her and waiting for the vetting to be done, she's being sold as a Dun. 😳
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Just to make things even more tricky, Buckskins can have dorsal stripes. Does she have leg barring? What is the other part of her breeding? Do you know who her dam and sire are (also what colour they are)?

It's surprisingly common for horses to be passported wrong for their colour, or advertised as the wrong colour. The countless 'palomino' Haflingers for example.


The difference between dun and buckskin hasn't reached everyone yet. There are plenty of people who still believer that buckskin is just the US term for dun. It was once, but now that we understand the genetics better, they have been assigned to different colours, caused by different genes. Although a bay/yellow dun does look similar to a buckskin.
 
Also, if her parents have nice show names, you can use them as inspiration to name their daughter. :)

PS. looking forwards to the photos and I hope that you have many wonderful years with your new horse.
 
A buckskin is a sandy coloured horse with a black mane (if the mane is brown it's not a true buckskin) anyway continuing... A buckskin also has a dorsal stripe down the centre on its back it doesn't matter about the *creamness* of the colour its all about the dorsel stripe, a dun dose's not a stripe also a fun can have a brown or black mane 😉
 
Dun is a single dilution gene which affects all horse colours resulting in the range of sandy duns, red duns, grullos, grey duns and smokies depending on the original base gene. The bay dilution is the one that produces the colour which causes all the confusion with buckskins. To be a true dun, the horse must have black points, legs, mane tail etc and a dorsal stripe which is distinctly darker than the rest of the coat. Leg and shoulder barring is also a sign of a dun and doesnt usually occur in buckskins. Duns should not have white markings. Dun is often present in native breeds.
Bucksin is a cream gene dilution of a bay horse. The gene produces buckskin fron bay, palomino from chestnut but is recessive to black having no eefect on colour. The cream on bay dilution result is a golden colour body with a dark black/brown mane and tail. Buckskins can have black points the same as a dun but can also have white markings on the face or legs. Buckskins do not have a true dorsal stripe, the hair may appear darker (known as countershading) at the spine but it is not a distinct stripe as in a dun. So quick way to check if your horse is a dun, is to see if the stripe is a distinct line that is noticeably darker than the rest of the coat. If yes then more than likely a dun. Although just to make things more confusing it is possible to have both cream and dun dilute genes present in one horse! My big lad is a buckskin (conniexvanner) and he has a black mane and tail with blond bits running through it, countershading and dapples in his coat and white face and leg markings yet his passport has him as dun!
 
allatno10 said:
Need some help with a name for a Dun mare, shes an ID x.
I quite like Cookie Crumble or Cookies 'n' Cream, every name I think of has either a food or drink theme, need some inspiration. Thanks.
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Biscuit
crunchie
Butter Popcorn
Butter Me Up
Sunny/Sonny
Desert
Cactus
Sandy/Sandi
Goldie (rather cliche, I know)
Honey
Spice (Show name Sugar & Spice)
Tanner/Tanni

Sunshine
Dark Sunshine
Rey/Ray of Sunshine
Sunbeam
Fool's Gold
Jewel
Crown of Gold
Golden Rose
Chrysanthemum (Crissy)
Daffodil
Daisy
Honey
Lilly
Mimosa
Star
Tansy



ANZAC biscuit
Biscotti
Bourbon biscuit
Butter cookie
Chocolate chip cookie
Florentine Biscuit
 
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kez81 said:
Dun is a single dilution gene which affects all horse colours resulting in the range of sandy duns, red duns, grullos, grey duns and smokies depending on the original base gene. The bay dilution is the one that produces the colour which causes all the confusion with buckskins. To be a true dun, the horse must have black points, legs, mane tail etc and a dorsal stripe which is distinctly darker than the rest of the coat. Leg and shoulder barring is also a sign of a dun and doesnt usually occur in buckskins. Duns should not have white markings. Dun is often present in native breeds.
Bucksin is a cream gene dilution of a bay horse. The gene produces buckskin fron bay, palomino from chestnut but is recessive to black having no eefect on colour. The cream on bay dilution result is a golden colour body with a dark black/brown mane and tail. Buckskins can have black points the same as a dun but can also have white markings on the face or legs. Buckskins do not have a true dorsal stripe, the hair may appear darker (known as countershading) at the spine but it is not a distinct stripe as in a dun. So quick way to check if your horse is a dun, is to see if the stripe is a distinct line that is noticeably darker than the rest of the coat. If yes then more than likely a dun. Although just to make things more confusing it is possible to have both cream and dun dilute genes present in one horse! My big lad is a buckskin (conniexvanner) and he has a black mane and tail with blond bits running through it, countershading and dapples in his coat and white face and leg markings yet his passport has him as dun!
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Almost but duns can and do have white markings. The gene is entirely separate from the dun gene. However for the breeds that dun is found in (esp Highlands) white markings are very frowned on.
 
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