names for dun mare

[NeverSayNever]

Amber

Sunshine

Posie

Gem - just because i learned to ride on a dun pony called Gem many moons ago

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Bet she was buckskin.

It is only recently that cream has appeared in TBs & none in arabs or connies.

Connies do have cream.

 

[Tuffles 23]

Truffles is a good name....but think how silly you would look if you'd called her Dunalina or gon-n-dun-it.

She came with her name Tuffles but my best friend can not for the life of her remember her name and has always called her Truffles and i don't care if i look silly and i do like gon-n-dun-it as she usually has
But you are right she is not Dun on her passport it says Golden Dun

 

[Meowy Catkin]

But you are right she is not Dun on her passport it says Golden Dun

The colour stated in passports is wrong far more often than it should be.

 

[s4sugar]

Connies do have cream.

You are right - I mean to say no cream in arabs nor dun in connies.

For some reason single cream connies keep getting called dun & they call perlinos blue eye whites.

 

[the watcher]

Passport issuers (and the vets who fill in the descriptions) are under strict instructions as to what colour descriptions can be used, they certainly shouldn't have accepted 'golden dun'

 

[Meowy Catkin]

For some reason single cream connies keep getting called dun & they call perlinos blue eye whites.

 

[Tuffles 23]

The colour stated in passports is wrong far more often than it should be.

Yes i know your right she is a buckskin but when i was little buckskin was only mentioned by John Wayne
And op i like the name Toffee .

 

[weesophz]

Míl. It's the irish for honey. It's pronounced meel, the middle í like teh ee in eek

i really like this

 

[Tuffles 23]

Passport issuers (and the vets who fill in the descriptions) are under strict instructions as to what colour descriptions can be used, they certainly shouldn't have accepted 'golden dun'

Yep very odd but that is what it says and she is 24 years old so very old paper work which has been updated by me but the colour could not be changed .

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Bet she was buckskin.

It is only recently that cream has appeared in TBs & none in arabs or connies.

sorry she wasn't she had a dorsal stripe too

 

[CountryStar]

My sister had one called Bixie (short for Weetabix)

 

[Meowy Catkin]

sorry she wasn't she had a dorsal stripe too

Just to confuse matters - buckskins can have dorsal stripes.

 

[BigBuck's]

I try very hard to call buckskin horses "buckskin" but it doesn't come naturally. I'm an old-timer and in my youth anything yellow with a black mane and tail was called dun. The picture of a yellow horse with a black mane and tail in all my Handbook-of-the-Horse type books was captioned "dun". Buckskin was a (gasp, shock horror) Americanism. So be patient with us oldies who have to learn a different terminology, all you whizzy up-to-date colour geneticists

And to the topic in hand:

Jasmine/Jazz - we have a jasmine shrub in the garden with lovely golden yellow flowers

Dusty, if she is a bit sooty

Shamrock, because she's Irish

Connie, because she is one and because there is con-fusion over her colour

Juno - "juno what colour this pony is?"

I'm getting silly now

 

[kerrieberry2]

I have a dun conny x tb called kelsey, was going to get another last year, but the owners decided not to see at 7months, but I waas going to name the baby Minnie if I got her! because she'd have been a mini version of kelsey haha!

instead I ended up with a conny x tb gelding, whos a beast

 

[Meowy Catkin]

BB - I completely understand.

For anyone who wants to read a nice starter on horse colours with lots of photos, this is a good place to start.
http://www.whitehorseproductions.com/ecg_basics2.html

You'll also see (from looking at the site above) that Sprinter Sacre is a lovely example of a Seal Brown and is not bay or black.

 

[Rosiejazzandpia]

Butterscotch (butters for short)
Sadie
Honey
Truffle
Fudge
Toffee
Coffee x

 

[RutlandH2O]

BB - I completely understand.

For anyone who wants to read a nice starter on horse colours with lots of photos, this is a good place to start.
http://www.whitehorseproductions.com/ecg_basics2.html

You'll also see (from looking at the site above) that Sprinter Sacre is a lovely example of a Seal Brown and is not bay or black.

Faracat knows of what she speaks...I've been trying to commit the whitehorseproductions info to memory, and just today, actually. It is so informative.

For the 'dun' mare...Dun and Dusted='Dusty'

 

[Nicnac]

http://www.whitehorseproductions.com/ecg_basics2.html

Can't look at site as anti-virus software on laptop (work one) has just had complete melt down hissy fit - really really didn't like that url!

FWIW OP; Irish Coffee or Butterkist

 

[trottingon]

Well I'm an oldie too. As far as I'm concerned Buckskin is for cowboys, yellow with dark brown or black mane and tail is a Dun, anything not quite white is a Cream, and "Seal Brown"???? Jeez, that's just feckin ridiculous!!!!!

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Not ridiculous at all Weatherby's have been calling that colour brown years before it was proved to be different from bay genetically.

Stick in the mud.

 

[devonlass]

caramac

That sounds like a perfect choice colour wise at least!!

I had a beautiful bay/yellow dun filly who was the love of my life (had to be PTS at 4 yrs old sadly),but she was called Katie so nothing to do with colour.Suited her though,maybe there is a name that will suit yours and will just come to you at some point,colour related or not??

 

[POLLDARK]

Well if you can't think of a name then it has to be 'Dunno' (Don't Know)

 

[nagseastsussex]

Thanks for all your suggestions. I was wrong she is buckskin and a full connie. we have decided to call her Neala. Will post a picture when we get her on sunday.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Oh lovely. Can't wait for the photo - I do love a nice Connie.

 

[trottingon]

Not ridiculous at all Weatherby's have been calling that colour brown years before it was proved to be different from bay genetically.

Stick in the mud.

Nah, just old......really old

 

[BurlingtonBertie]

Our dun Connie mare was called Buffy.

 

[erwina]

It says in the breed standards of the Irish Connemara pony association that connemaras can be dun? Have 2 dun connies

 

[whisp&willow]

It says in the breed standards of the Irish Connemara pony association that connemaras can be dun? Have 2 dun connies

They call them dun and will continue to do so, but the colour is in fact caused by a different gene, so they are truly buckskin, and not dun.

My mare is buckskin, although passported as dun, as I never knew the diffenence back then. x

 

[Spring]

Used to know a little dun called chamois as in chamois leather! X