What colour is/are your horse/s?

Minnies_Mum said:
Do the colour experts agree with my wild bay assumption on my boy? Pics on page 22 of this thread, I can't get photobucket to upload them again, would love to know what you think.
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He seems to have a very pale muzzle so I did wonder if he was brown, but usually brown horses are darker. I think you need Faracat for this one. :)
 
My 'barely counts as a coloured' Irish cob :P

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She has a dapply patch on her neck behind her ear on this side!
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And a random little polka dot on her back this side!
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A lot of white to keep clean! Worth it though :o

ps: Her feet in particular are a lot cleaner now, those shots taken within first week of ownership. She's since had two very thorough baths and now she sparkles! (until she hits the field that is lmao)
 
A dark brown with ticking throughout (not roan, but similar)
Taken a few years ago, - she is a hairy lean yak currently, not fit for show!
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And a bay - of 2 weeks. Got a photo, but again not fit for show due to bad hair cut!! lol
 
Fools Motto said:
A dark brown with ticking throughout (not roan, but similar)
Taken a few years ago, - she is a hairy lean yak currently, not fit for show!
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And a bay - of 2 weeks. Got a photo, but again not fit for show due to bad hair cut!! lol
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Is it possible she is a brown buckskin like my mare? She's a little darker but the pale muzzle is less red than would be the case if see was a normal seal brown.
 
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Moses, my 13.2hh( still growing) piebald traditional gypsy cob
 
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Ffin 15.3 hh Dark bay shire x
 
We have a collection of Appaloosa's (not sure of the collective noun!)
Black blanket spot
Bay lacy blanket
Seal brown frosted hip
Bay extended blanket that I expect will turn to a bay near leopard
Few spot with 6 chestnut spots! and due a baby in June
oh and a Skewbald Sele Franscais !
 
Wagtail said:
Is it possible she is a brown buckskin like my mare? She's a little darker but the pale muzzle is less red than would be the case if see was a normal seal brown.
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I highly doubt it. Her parents were both bay. At times she looks black, and it is only due to her muzzle that I know (certainly assume) that she has to be brown. Would love a buckskin again though, (had some in the past) never get a bad one!
 
I have a skewbald....
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a palobald......
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A spotty dotty kinda thing....
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and a Poobald.....
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who should look like this...
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I think my horse is a bay blanket spot but I am not sure if he is a varnish roan. He has got more white on him then when I got him but the roan bits on the bay seem to come and go. He also had more white in his mane and tail when I got him. He is 9 this year and still pretty bay. I will try to post some pics. Not sure I know how to do it though.

This is him now

This is him when I first got him nearly 3 years ago
 
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Wagtail said:
I agree that they are both genetically identical in respect of the E+ gene but there are modifying and intensifying genes at work as well. Jet black (non fading) is recessive to fading black due to the intensifying gene being affected by the fading gene (Jeanette Gower - Horse Colour explained). Of course this is a relatively old book and so may be wrong. I haven't looked into it other than read this book.
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It's certainly a hotly debated subject. Maybe one day it will be fully explained, but there is gathering evidence that formally 'fading black' horses stop fading once fed a good vit&min supplement, which does make me lean towards it being a nutritional issue.

http://www.balancedequine.com.au/nutrition/bleaching.html
 
Faracat said:
It's certainly a hotly debated subject. Maybe one day it will be fully explained, but there is gathering evidence that formally 'fading black' horses stop fading once fed a good vit&min supplement, which does make me lean towards it being a nutritional issue.

http://www.balancedequine.com.au/nutrition/bleaching.html
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Those top two pics of my boy were taken in August/sept last year, he's still pretty black ( well the bits that aren't roan lol) he lives out from April to Oct/Nov rugged if necessary but not all the time.

I don't feed him any specific vit supplement but wondering if the Rabicano gene is making him keep his colour or is it the turmeric lol
 
The Tank said:
He is gorgeous, BB
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Thanks :) I think so too but I maybe biased after 14yrs of ownership lol he has gotten more roan as the years have went on. He was described on his passport as Black Cob when I bought him at 10 all those years ago lol

Faracat said:
Or you could be lucky and your grazing isn't badly deficient in any important minerals. :)
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I'm liking the sound of that from him being barefoot and never footy :)
 
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bay and white filly, splash white and sabino in the mix as well?? bald face & one & a half blue eyes.


piebald miniature shetland, lots of areas where his white is mixing into the black bits.

chestnut mare, normal gingerness in the winter but her summer coat is gorgeous, very coppery and shiny and covered in pale black spots and white flecking throughout her coat!
 
Fly is passported as bay but his mane and tail aren't actually black so I'm assuming he's actually seal brown?

the photo shows his summer coat although he is usually more dappled. In the winter he is much darker with lighter patches around the eyes and muzzle.
 
So its starting to seem that in fact, a lot of the horses we presume are bay are in fact seal brown. From being a little girl I have always know that bay means they should have black points, but I guess as I got older all I really looked at was main body colour, mane tail and legs.

I read this thread the other day and now each time I see a "bay" horse I'm automatically looking at the muzzle/eyes/flanks and correcting my self in my head!
 
ElandFly said:
Fly is passported as bay but his mane and tail aren't actually black so I'm assuming he's actually seal brown?
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the photo shows his summer coat although he is usually more dappled. In the winter he is much darker with lighter patches around the eyes and muzzle.
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He's a lovely colour. A kind of walnut. I suspect that he is brown rather than bay, yes. My girl is brown based and her mane, tail and points are really dark brown rather than black.
 
Buzz's mane and tail are properly black, and his legs just passed his knees and below his hocks. I used to have a lovely roan and white cob mare, will dig out a picture. She was known as moo as she looked like the cow from the magic round about.
 
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