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I love grey (white) horses. I have seen one advertised and I really like him and he is very bombproof ( which I need now as I have lost confidence) He is 9 years old and has gone lighter ( he was very dark as I have seen an older video of him) but still has black legs and mane and a partially black tail, I would actually love him to go very light (white)

Does anyone know if a black mane will go white on a steel grey horse or will it stay black???
Is there anyway of telling or is it just a case of wait and see???

Thanks
 
With my old pony, bless him, he started off as steel grey with mainly black legs. This was when he was 5. His mane and tail had a lot of black in it at this time.

When he was about 8 or 9, he went a simply gorgeous dapple grey; mane and tail went lighter and a lot of the black hairs went, although there were just a few. Legs stayed quite black, but more grey with it.

From about the age of 14 or 15 he went much whiter and ended up as a fleabitten grey. Mane and tail just a few black hairs, you had to look for them, mainly white. Legs mainly white.

He was a lovely little chap, I KNOW that "the perfect pony" existed, because I had him, he was mine. He was worth his weight in gold and I miss him such a lot even after 30 yrs of missing him.

Go for the grey: you won't be sorry. But you WILL have fun keeping him clean!!! LOL
 
Greying varies from horse to horse - it all depends on how fast it happens. It's just like human hair greying. Ultimately the horse will go white but it might take a while.

However, choosing a horse based on whether or not its tail will grey out sounds extremely foolish. I hope temperament and health will be first in your decision...
 
i have 2 greys
one i have seen photo's of when he was young and he started off very dark grey with a black mane and tail, he is now 13 and has a silver mane and tail and lots of chestnut fleabites
the other is not so flea bitten but still has a black mane and black and silver tail, he is also 13
i think they look lurvly!!!! :D
 
I have two greys (own one and share one) both 19. Mine is completely white. His legs were quite dark when I got him aged 9 but his body was white. The other (share) is VERY fleabitten with strands of chestnut, dark grey and black through his mostly white mane which gives an overall silvery effect.

He was very dark, almost black when my friend bought him a t 5 and stayed quite dark until 15-16 when he went fleabitten almost overnight with the shedding of one winter coat. As he gets older, he gets more fleabitten rather than whiter!

They're all different and you can't really tell when they'll go white - but believe me a darker grey is sooo much easier to manage! His temperament sounds fab and that's the first thing you need to go for.
 
A fleabitten grey on my old yard used to be almost totally black. You need to look at his genetics-2 generations if you can to see how he might turn out, but all the iron grey/dapples I've known have gone lots paler as they age.
 
Hi
Yes you are right, temperament and health should come first, I just have a liking for greys even though I have an old Spanish grey that has melanomas
I have been looking at a lot of horses and have narrowed it down to 3 ( one of them is completely white, the other is a dapple grey with almost white mane and tail, he is pretty bombproof as well.

All are healthy , calm temperament etc ( wish I could have all 3 lol)
 
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