What colour is/are your horse/s?

[Meowy Catkin]

Lemonpolo - I would say varnish roan.

Caramac71 - she's a grey. It's not uncommon for greys to be misidentified as roan in the early stages of greying out.

 

[Lucyad]

Is this dark bay or brown - or seal brown? I thought it was a boring colour but now I understand most of the more complex colours, a have ended up baffled by my 'formerly dark bay' horse!

He is very dark brown, with black legs, mane and tail, with much paler muzzle, slightly paler round eyes, and very pale between back legs. Goes a bit paler than picture in summer.

 

[H4flinger]

Chestnut Haflinger (although he appears more palomino) who is also pangare and carries the grey gene so goes dappled in the summer and a black show cob who has four white socks and white splodges near his sheath which are technically big enough to class him as coloured haha

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Lucyad - He's brown and as he's a dark one I would call him seal brown.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

H4flinger - I don't see grey on your haffy, I didn't think that it was in the breed. Non greys can be dappled.

It should be stated that Haflingers (no matter how pale they are) should never be called palomino as they don't have the cream gene, as H4flinger states, they have pangare.

 

[Lemonpolo]

Lemonpolo - I would say varnish roan.

Caramac71 - she's a grey. It's not uncommon for greys to be misidentified as roan in the early stages of greying out.

That's a new one one me, thank you we know he is out of a welsh mare and can only assume an appy shire!

 

[HufflyPuffly]

Boring over here too.

Bright bay, with no white bar a smudged star

Black, with three white socks and a wonky stripe

Perhaps the most interesting will be Skylla as she is grey but clearly on a black base, 2.5 years now so a lot of colour changes to happen yet!

x x

 

[Phoebe+Sophie]

I have a bay mare and a black gelding. She is Exmoor x Welsh Section C and she is sort of bronze with honey bits in the summer and darker with russet red in the winter. In the winter she also gets gold sort spiderwebs down the inside of her front legs but they disappear in the summer. I don't know what that's called. You can see the exmoor in her face, her mealy muzzle and around her eyes.
Summer coat

Winter coat

Black gelding clipped summer coat

Sorry for the overload!

 

[H4flinger]

H4flinger - I don't see grey on your haffy, I didn't think that it was in the breed. Non greys can be dappled.

It should be stated that Haflingers (no matter how pale they are) should never be called palomino as they don't have the cream gene, as H4flinger states, they have pangare.

You are probably right but he changes colour all year so it can be hard to tell haha

Not a great pictures but his dapples:

 

[SatsumaGirl]

Horses I own or have owned (please note, some are loaned or shared so I don't just have a massive herd to look after and support on my own!):

Black Dales x, rising 30

Golden buckskin Connie x ID

Bay leopard spot with one blue eye, ID x App

2 x Buckskin tobianos (one Connie x cob and one 3/4 Traditional, 1/4 Highland, latter has a wall eye).

Piebald cob with sabino roaning.

Pale or buttermilk buckskin with very pale amber eyes, believed to be a Connie, Highland, cob mix.

Chestnut flaxen frame overo, one blue eye and one darker blue wall eye, Paint x Haffy.

I used to own a beautiful buckskin tobiano very heavy traditional but sold him years ago, having listened to other people, hence why I took on the new heavy youngster when I found him.

Also used to own the most beautiful black based loud leopard spot Knabstrupper x ISH. Biggest mistake of my life, passing him on. Still think about him everyday. He pops up for loan or sale at least every other month but despite this, woman won't sell him to anyone. :-/

Sorry, I ramble.

Thought I'd add in photos as couldn't get them to work this morning!

Pale buckskin

Golden buckskin and the Connie x cob

Piebald cob

The ID x App with my old Knab x ISH before I sold him

Paint x Haffy

My little old man (Dales x)

My old buckskin tobiano (since sold)

My new buckskin tobiano
Not the best photo as it was last summer during the rising 1 phase! He's filled out a lot since.

 

[Lucyad]

Lucyad - He's brown and as he's a dark one I would call him seal brown.

Thanks! His passport has brown scored out and dark bay written over the top - they were right all along!

 

[exmoorponyprincess1]

50 shades of brown!! They are all Exmoors

 

[forelegs]

I've always said that mine was dark bay (thats what his passport says) but now I'm wondering if he is actually seal brown. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me can tell me!

Summer coat:

Clipped:

He has some very light patches (muzzle and parts of his legs):

Hope the pictures have worked!

 

[Wagtail]

Forelegs, he looks like seal brown to me, especially in the third photo. Lovely colour.

 

[blitznbobs]

I have a little chestnut, a bay tobiano ,a bay roan, a black tobiano and a v dark brown (looks essentially black but she is brown)

 

[SpringArising]

Forelegs, he looks like seal brown to me

Me too.

 

[Annagain]

Mine is what I think Faracat would call mud on a poo base

with a wee dilute.

....and what he should look like

And just so he's not left out my share horse. Fleabitten grey with chestnut flecks (although not so obvious in this pic as they tend to blend together in winter and just create an overall off white colour) but even at 19 he still has quite a dark mane and tail - his mane is a darker grey but the dark bits of his tail are chestnut. It's a little bit muddy in this photo but not far off its normal colour.

 

[Beausmate]

I've also had two chestnuts - one, a Suffolk x Hanovarian who was properly orange, a 'chesnut' from his Suffolk dam and a Welsh C x Arab, who was slightly less orange, with a lighter mane and a glorious technicolour dream tail! It was every colour bar white, started black in the middle and grew paler as it neared the sides, ending up flaxen.

I had a PBA, who was totally black until she was nearly five, when she very slowly started to grey out. Dad is fleabitten, mum is probably seal brown, maybe black tobiano.

 

[kez81]

Currently have a chestnut Arab with white socks and a small star on forehead, a bright bay new forest pony with no white markings and then there is Boo! Boo is buckskin with a white blaze and white socks, he has black knees and his mane and tail are mostly black with white streaks. In winter he is pale sandy buckskin and in summer he is darker with bronzing down his neck and over his rump with dapples everywhere.

 

[Enfys]

Palominos. Buckskin. Bay. Red and white overo.

Yesterday, not that you can really see the colours!

Buckskin

 

[Meowy Catkin]

P+S - I would say a brown and a really dark seal brown.

There's lots of gorgeous brown horses on this thread.

Annagain - my grey sometimes rocks the muddy, pee and poo stained look too. My tactic is to not look too closely at how clean she is - much less stressful.

 

[Dusty85]

Ive got a Bay mare.

Summer coat is a gorgeous conker red colour

 

[Annagain]

P+S - I would say a brown and a really dark seal brown.

There's lots of gorgeous brown horses on this thread.

Annagain - my grey sometimes rocks the muddy, pee and poo stained look too. My tactic is to not look too closely at how clean she is - much less stressful.

Out of interest Faracat, is my share horse just a bog standard grey that happens to be fleabitten, or is there more to him with the dark mane and chestnutty bits in his tail. He's very fleabitten, esp in summer - almost like a negative of a chestnut roan? I think I read that a fleabitten grey isn't homozygous (and therefore lessd prone to melanoma) while a "white" grey is? Is that true? My two would back that up as at 19 both, A is riddled, but M has none.

 

[southerncomfort]

Chestnut/Chestnut and um....chestnut!

 

[Gloi]

Mud coloured

(Meant to be black & chestnut dun)

 

[Phoebe+Sophie]

P+S - I would say a brown and a really dark seal brown.

There's lots of gorgeous brown horses on this thread.

Annagain - my grey sometimes rocks the muddy, pee and poo stained look too. My tactic is to not look too closely at how clean she is - much less stressful.

I thought browns had brown manes and tails without black points? I thought you couldn't really go wrong with bay! That's really interesting about Will, I know true black horses are rarer than you think. He does fade a lot in the summer. Here's more of Will, does it confirm yours thoughts Faracat?
More of clipped summer coat

Unclipped summer coat

Thanks!

 

[Casey76]

Pics of my two black beasts...

 

[Crugeran Celt]

I have a black with three white socks and a small star, a bright bay with four white socks and large star, two chestnut pintos and a palamino. All very ordinary colours. Even the pintos are almost all chestnut with minimal white markings. I would love a dun.

 

[Wagtail]

P+S - I would say a brown and a really dark seal brown.

There's lots of gorgeous brown horses on this thread.

I thought the same about the darker of P+S's horses but wondered if the lighter one could be a bright bay with pangare?

 

[s4sugar]

Wild bay minimal frame overo mare & chestnut (OLWS tested hetrozygous but not expressed) with pangare & rabicano gelding


will sort out photos.