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would someone explain to me please why my horse has this colour mane and tail?. the silver is along the neck of the mane and as you can see the tail. any reason to why he may be like this as ive had him almost a year and it hasnt changed. His sire is palomino but i dont think that makes a differance. Sorry to be a pain but its intresting to know. Thank you :o

 
unicorndreams said:
Possibly the rabicano gene - does he also have white ticking in his coat in the flank area?
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He has no white on his flank area but under on his belly is all white. and between his hind legs is fairly light too. I noticed on another photo too that above his white legs the fainted black looks to have a silver shimmer :L
 
OK could be the 'silver' dilution gene then, which affects the black pigment:

"Bay Silver (Red Chocolate)
A bay horse will have diluted black points. A standard bay horse will be unaffected on the body, but a dark bay coat may show dilution. The mane and tail are generally lighter, or a sooty silver color. The legs are usually diluted to a brown/grey color, often with mottling"

Reproduced from here: http://colorgenetics.info/equine/content/dilutions-horses
 
Wild bay.
One of the more extreme presentations and definitely not silver which would give a white mane & tail on a bay.
 
They do. Thanks. :)

The fact that his sire was a pally has no bearing really as the cream gene hasn't been passed on to your boy. You do however know that he has one black gene and one chestnut gene, so if he was a stallion, he could sire chestnut foals.

He, however is black based (black is dominant over chestnut). I agree that he is quite a wild bay as his legs aren't particularly black, but there is some black. His white markings indicate sabino (jagged edges on the socks and the flecking around his stripe). I believe that it is the sabino that is causing the 'grey' hairs in his mane and tail (nothing to do with the true grey gene). This is known as Gulastra plume and is often seen in the tail only, but can occur in the mane too.
 
Thankyou very interesting. it was hard to describe his bay colour to people because he is not a dark bay nor is he bright bay. so know I know. I like the grey within his mane and tail it makes his kind of unusual. :)
 
I used to have one with a Gulastra Plume (tail only). :)

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This sort of colour used to be called a "washy bay". How old is he? When I used to run a stud farm we'd get the odd bay foal with this sort of silvery tail, but it would usually be all black by the time they were 4 or 5.
 
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