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Question in title! What colour would you say this little lady is please? She has a dorsal stripe. Can chestnuts have a dorsal stripe?
Vet said palomino but I don't agree. We have palominos & she's much darker.
Her mum was palomino & we believe dad was dun.


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She'll be a dun. She'll not be a palomino as palominos do not have dorsal stripes like the similarly colored dun horse.

Dun horses: the body color can be shades of yellow or gold, with each hair the same color. The mane and tail may be black, brown, red, yellow, white, or mixed. Duns exhibit a dorsal stripe.
 
Maybe darker when clipped??? Anyway, I have no idea, all I know is I need to somehow convince you to send him to me asap :D:D:D:D
 
Spyda said:
She'll be a dun. She'll not be a palomino as palominos do not have dorsal stripes like the similarly colored dun horse.

Dun horses: the body color can be shades of yellow or gold, with each hair the same color. The mane and tail may be black, brown, red, yellow, white, or mixed. Duns exhibit a dorsal stripe.
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This does sound like she's a dun of some sort then.

Thank you for all suggestions!

I'd never heard of a red dun before or a dunalino! Red dun sounds possible?
 
Dunalino perhaps? Although she looks more brownish than red/yellowish, winter coats are deceptive though. Whatever colour, she's cute.

Palominos can be sooty or chocolate too. http://www.ultimatehorsesite.com/colors/palomino.html

Some shade of silver?

I have a dunalino mare (palomino and dun parents)
Looks palomino until you see the red in her mane, the dorsal stripe, and the red rather than yellow face and legs.
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I also have a red dun:
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I have an odd coloured dun, he has a dorsal stripe and primative shoulder stripes, but also has white spots!!!

His mum was bay and his dad coloured.

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Why can't they make up thier minds as to what colour they are!!!!
 
Chestnut with a flaxen main and tail (have a pony the same colour)
But the dorsal strip throws me off. Can that not be added as a marking on the passport and 'ignored' when identifying the colouring.
 
I breed dun shetlands.

She looks to me like a chestnut dun.

I have a few chestnut duns myself, and have bred a few - they tend to be more orangey in their winter coats, and more palominoey in their summer coats - as foals they can be quite orange. Normally, I can tell the chestnut duns from the palomino duns (dunalinos) as the chestnut duns go darker in the winter, where the palomino duns go paler.

If you'd like to see a few other chestnut duns, have a look at my website - we also have a couple of chestnuts, which will give you the comparison!

www.varkiesstud.co.uk
 
varkie said:
I breed dun shetlands.

She looks to me like a chestnut dun.

I have a few chestnut duns myself, and have bred a few - they tend to be more orangey in their winter coats, and more palominoey in their summer coats - as foals they can be quite orange. Normally, I can tell the chestnut duns from the palomino duns (dunalinos) as the chestnut duns go darker in the winter, where the palomino duns go paler.

If you'd like to see a few other chestnut duns, have a look at my website - we also have a couple of chestnuts, which will give you the comparison!

www.varkiesstud.co.uk
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I had a registered shetland with full pedigree papers (before the days of passports) and she was registered as a cream dun. I'd ever heard of it before!
 
LisW said:
Oh wow! He could be her brother!! How big is he? We could have a matching pair!
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He's 31 inches, or at least he was last time I measured him...
I think hes a bit of a mix between a standard and a mini as hes kind of in the middle... bless him :o

He's looking a bit too portly for this time of year too, I must admit... :rolleyes:
 
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Thank you. We think they're all rather beautiful - but we're biased!

The term 'cream dun' is widely used on shetland passports, but it's a bit of a nonsense term really - it just describes the colour visually, it doesn't tell you properly about the genetics. The majority of 'cream dun' shetlands are either palomino dun or chestnut dun.

31 inches makes a shetland a miniature - the maximum height for a mini shetland is 34" when fully grown. A midi is unofficially usually considered to be 34 - 38", but in technicaly terms, a standard is anything from 34 - 42".

The pony in the picture would be unlikely to be considered a buckskin. A buckskin horse is a bay horse with one copy of the cream gene - I'd eat my hat if the original pony colour tested that way.

People get confused by duns, thinking that all duns must have black points. Not so. Dun is not a colour in it's own right, but something that happens to a colour. So you get black duns, bay duns, chestnut duns, etc. So the pony in the original picture could well be a dun - and I think is most likely to be.
 
This is a classic buckskin.
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Varkie is absolutely right about the dunalinos in winter, mine goes a creamy colour, pretty much identical to the palomino in the signature,
the chestnut dun I have doesn't change colour at all.
 
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Does she have stripes on her legs? Duns have other distinctive markings in addition to the 'dorsal' stripe. Without seeing her in her summer coat I would say palomino with counter shading - often looks like a dorsal stripe.
 
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