What colour is this horse?

[millikins]

Just curious, he's a brumby on a FB page I follow. I can't decide if he's palomino though his mane and tail are sandy, very pale chestnut or one of the pearl variations I'm not very clear on. He's not double dilute as has dark eyes.

 

[Cloball]

Could be a red dun I think I can see leg bars and the body dilution would correct but ears and dorsal less convincing.

 

[FayBelle]

Chestnut/Strawberry roan perhaps?

 

[Burnerbee]

I think, based on Google, that he is champagne, possibly the golden cream variant - which is a real colour scheme for horses that I didn’t know existed until 5 minutes ago! Wait for an expert to come along….

 

[ester]

It doesn’t have the muzzle mottling that you’d expect for a champagne

 

[ester]

More pics here

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[Beausmate]

I would have said palomino, but his knees look chestnut. Pretty pony, whatever the colour.

 

[Gloi]

Could be a red dun I think I can see leg bars and the body dilution would correct but ears and dorsal less convincing.

Or palomino dun.

 

[ester]

He has no dorsal or ear bars in tbe extra pics, I agree he looks to have a dun-ish tone to his dilution but I think he is likely just palo (doesn’t look right for homozygous pearl which would be the only other option dilution wise and no idea if brumby’s have it)

 

[millikins]

Or palomino dun.

That's getting very confusing.

 

[IrishMilo]

Chestnut/Strawberry roan perhaps?

Roans have solid dark points (head, legs) with white hairs over a (black, bay, chestnut) base on the body. This pony isn't roan.

I'd say red dun too.

 

[ester]

No dorsal

 

[ester]

No ear bars (or rims)

 

[Tarragon]

That last photo is a strange one!

 

[Cloball]

I do wonder if there's a bit of editing going on with the colours. Love a colour discussion though and the yawning pic is super cute.

 

[poiuytrewq]

That last photo is a strange one!

Its a Hamster horse! and the colour is officially "kinda orangey"

 

[ester]

He can’t help his chubby cheeks

 

[poiuytrewq]

He can’t help his chubby cheeks

He knows theres a hard winter on its way and is storing....

 

[Littlest Hobo]

He's a real live "Silver Brumby"!

Though I spent my entire childhood thinking they were greys,until I found out the author meant them to be Palominos!!

 

[TinselPoos]

Derailing the thread further… I loved the silve4 brumbies and also thought they were grey (white) so I jus5 asked the lovel AI and here’s just the starter of what it said:

The Silver Brumby, Thowra, was a creamy-silver stallion with a coat that turned silver in winter and a silver mane and tail. His distinctive coat, the result of a cream base color and a silver dapple gene, made him stand out among other wild horses and made him a target for capture by humans.

Appearance

• Base Coat:
  Thowra had a creamy base coat, inherited from his palomino mother, Bel Bel.
  
  

 

[millikins]

That last photo is a strange one!

Lots of them seem to have very wide cheeks, is that a Waler trait?

 

[pistolpete]

Sooty palomino

 

[Cloball]

Derailing the thread further… I loved the silve4 brumbies and also thought they were grey (white) so I jus5 asked the lovel AI and here’s just the starter of what it said:

The Silver Brumby, Thowra, was a creamy-silver stallion with a coat that turned silver in winter and a silver mane and tail. His distinctive coat, the result of a cream base color and a silver dapple gene, made him stand out among other wild horses and made him a target for capture by humans.

Appearance

• Base Coat:
  Thowra had a creamy base coat, inherited from his palomino mother, Bel Bel.
  
  

But that doesn't make any sense as silver dapple gene isn't visible on a palomino it's only expressed on black or bay based horses. Unless AI is trying to say silver dunskin and I definitely didn't get that from the books. I always thought they were either cremello or pale palomino.

 

[TinselPoos]

I doubt Mr AI read the books I will continue to think of them as silvery white. No pink noses allowed.

 

[ester]

good old AI

 

[TinselPoos]

Lots of them seem to have very wide cheeks, is that a Waler trait?

I wonder if that’s from having to chew really tough grasses etc? I seem to remember something about Przewalskis having big cheeks as a defining characteristic.

 

[Cloball]

Quarter horses often have big cheeks not sure why. Silver dapple cream does sound lovely and romantic.

 

[ester]

its a bit of a stallion thing too

 

[ester]

fwiw Thowra was palo, he didn't have a grey parent (redxpalo) to steer it back round to genetics

 

[Littlest Hobo]

Right that's it, I haven't reread them all for ages,so off to unearth my paperbacks.

I looked out over a valley hidden in mist a while ago and I stood there thinking that's how Throwra and Kunama looked out over a valley hidden in mist before the skiers emerged. Some books make an impression you never forget.