Pics of Duns please

Lots of lovely photos - there is just 'something' about duns/buckskins, they all look so beautiful or handsome :)

Any excuse to post pics of mine..

Me and my old boy hunting for the first time.
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Same old boy in retirement.
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My mouse dun Mini Shetland.
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Gingerarab, I don't really understand the difference between duns and buckskin other than to do with colour dilution and or genes. I'm sure someone can give a good answer or maybe look on google?

Jane
 
Dun and Buckskin are my favourite colours :D
There are some gorgeous Highlands on this thread. :)

Some pictures of my buckskin Welsh Cob (Fudge) showing how his colours change throughout the seasons.
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Goldie a red dun Shetland Pony.
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Well OK, any excuse to show off my lovely neddies...

Emerald, mouse dun highland mare with her 3 1/2 month filly foal. The foal is by a chestnut arab stallion and is a red dun
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and at one day old
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This is her two year old gelding by the same stallion, also a red dun
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and Emerald with her full Highland son
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and the lovely lady herself
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Gorgeous ponies, absolutely lovely. Numpty question but what is the difference between red dun and chestnut. You red duns look very much like a chestnut I know.

FDC
 
Love love love duns & buckskins :) There all so gorgeous :) Gimme a yard full of duns and spotties and I'd be one very happy lady :)
 
Love all the pictures of Duns! This is my 2 year old WBX

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also someone was asking about the difference between Buckskin and Dun. So I have copied the following information from the web

Buckskin is a hair coat color of horses; referring to a color that resembles certain shades of tanned deerskin. Similar colors in some breeds of dogs are also called buckskin. The horse has a tan or gold colored coat with black points (mane, tail, and lower legs). Buckskin occurs as a result of the cream dilution gene acting on a bay horse. Therefore, a buckskin has the Extension, or "black base coat" (E) gene, the agouti (A) gene (see bay for more on the agouti gene), which restricts the black base coat to the points, and one copy of the cream gene, which lightens the red/brown color of the coat to a tan/gold.

Buckskins should not be confused with dun-colored horses, which have another type of dilution gene, not the cream gene. Duns always have primitive markings (shoulder blade stripes, dorsal stripe, zebra stripes on legs, webbing). Unlike buckskins, who have the creme gene, dun horses have the dun gene. However, it is possible for a horse to carry both dilution genes; these are called "buckskin duns" or sometimes "dunskins." Also, bay horses without any dun gene may have a faint dorsal stripe, which sometimes is darkened in a buckskin without a dun gene being present. Additional primitive striping beyond just a dorsal stripe is a sure sign of the dun gene.
 
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Signs of a true dun are dorsal stripe, cross on withers, leg stripes, pale stripe under belly, spider web markings on forehead and ears dipped in chocolate. My boy has all these markings and no white. All due to his Highland dam.

Not all duns have all these markings. All very confusing and don't get me started on buckskins or various grey colours!

Jane
 
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