Those of you with chestnuts...

[Twizzel]

All you lucky people with orange horses, when they are fully clipped, do they tend to go a little bit black?

The cob I ride has been fully clipped in September, November, Christmas Eve and is currently sporting patches of what looks like black hair all over... his face has black bits, shoulder, back, quarters, it all looks very very weird

We are thinking it's maybe his summer coat coming through?

Does anybody else's orange horse go black when clipped or is he just weird?

 

[nbred]

i have a liver chestnut, he has black spots on him, mainly on his legs!

 

[BigRed]

I have a proper ginger chestnut, she does not get black patches, but my previous chestnut mare did.

 

[barbaraNcolin]

My boy gets a few faint ones on his bum which definitely aren't there in the summer!

 

[Kenzo]

By the sounds of it he has ermine marks, a lot of chestnuts can have dark livery brown spotting, sometimes its just the odd random one, sometimes loads of them, sometimes only show at certain times of the year or when the horse is wet palominos also get these, its all down the colour/breeding genetics.

 

[BBH]

My boy never gets hairy enough to clip but he has a few black
' splodges' on his rump in summer. Only small ones but still.....

 

[Hedgewitch13]

Nope she just goes a paler orange. She does get lovely dapples on her coat in the summer though - you have to look side on to see them

 

[Twizzel]

Hmmm but it's only appeared in the last few weeks as the clip has grown out?? He goes a pale orange colour when clipped and as the last 2 clips have grown out he's just gone more ginger, no black... his summer coat doesn't have any darker patches. Will try and get some pics tonight, he just looks rather weird at the moment!!

 

[Kenzo]

Have you made any changes to your horses feed? sometimes that can cause slight colour change and odd blotching, has there been any scaring in that area previoulsy..any rubbing etc, or it could be an age thing, perhaps he will now get them as he gets older...could be a number of things.

 

[ester]

nope, I want to see pics now!

 

[Vizslak]

No both my gingers are just ginger underneath but there was a chestnut horse on my yard when clipped last summer that seemed to have odd dark patches to his coat....oddly though only your post has reminded me of it as I don't think I've noticed the same colouration on him this winter!

 

[*hic*]

Both my gingers are paler ginger underneath.

 

[figbat]

Strictly speaking, it's "chesnut".

 

[Enfys]

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Really!? There you go then.

Minor technicality of course.

I've been spelling it wrongly for years then

I always remember my Observer book of Horses saying that Suffolks were chesnut, anything else was chestnut.

I don't have that problem now, they are all sorrel here - just in about 12 different shades.

 

[Solstar]

mine has tiny little dark patches everywhere- but alot more on his head and legs. I've just clipped him out this morning.

 

[Vizslak]

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Strictly speaking, it's "chesnut".

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eh? no it isn't?!

 

[SpruceRI]

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Strictly speaking, it's "chesnut".

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eh? no it isn't?!

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There was an article in the H&H mag a few years ago about whether the spelling should be chesnut or chestnut.

I think the conclusion was that it could be either !!!

It's chestnut for me!!

Anyway, my chestnut is bright orange/almost pink when clipped.

 

[FanyDuChamp]

Cappy has a couple of black spots, but one is on his white stocking. But more interestingly he gets reindeers spots on his belly in the spring! No idea why he gets them, any ideas?