what's your favourite coat color

I don't really mind what colour they are, although have a few I would avoid, I seem to have ended up with 3 chestnuts, 1 very bright orange with flaxen mane and tail plus plenty of white, the other two are darker, 1 is not quite liver but is almost at certain times of year, they were not picked for colour, in fact the bright one was bought to sell 25 years ago, I think I have left it too late now:rolleyes: one was gifted to me so colour was irrelevant.
 
Palomino, cremello or perlino, buckskin. Anything yellow really!

And a good dark coloured roan.

And anything with the shimmery Ahkel teke type coat - we had an Arab who was metallic and he passed it on to a couple of his foals.

Blue eyes are a plus in any colour as well!
 
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I love my chestnut's colouring. A light dapply liver ish chestnut (goes dark/liver in winter, deep orange in summer) with a flaxen mane and a darker tail. His hair kind of matches mine too, although mine is artificial!

And a blaze.

Find his colour hard to describe. Orangey.

Basically I'm a sucker for an orange horse though. Usually end up with greys so was pleased to pick up a chestnut this time.
 
Jet black, no white except a star.
Good job I have a Fell and a Dales then.

I started out as a kid with two black ponies and have been through bays, piebald, chestnut - and now back to black.

Proper dapples are lovely but I couldn't be doing with the eventual grey...
 
Really dark bay with a white stripe, just like one of my mares.
I also love dun and buckskin (have a dun Highland), black and proper leopard spot appaloosa
 
I always wanted a black. I’ve now got one black, two black and white, one white and one chestnut roan . IThere’s a horse near me it’s very dark liver chestnut with a very blonde mane and tail and is just stunning.
 
I did have 4 pink ones at one stage. There is a proper chestnut that runs the forest near me, she looks stunning in her summer coat.
 
Anything phenotypically white with mostly pink skin is good fun. I like freckly noses. I have a fewspot and I know a greyed out leopard spot and I think both are very pretty. (might be a bit biased.)

I like my new forest's colour. She's reddish brown with black mane and tail in winter and orange in the summer. (The genetics nerds will kill me for the way I described that lol!)

Champagnes and double pearls and unusual and eyecatching but some things in combination are cool too - we looked after a flaxen chestnut roan with splash white for a little while. She had ice-blue eyes and a pink nose as well.


ETA - as you might have guessed I like lots of colours haha, can't choose a favourite.
 

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My absolute favourite are the mouse dun or grulla colours but am also partial to the gold coats of palamino and Buckskin
 
Buckskin or dun just love them and you never get a bad one (bet that’s a complete surprise looking at my profile pic ) lol ? and yes I particularly bought her because of her colour ( although she also had to move well and have talent )
 
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I love the mouse/dapple type duns (or is that buckskin?) with black points and a nice star I'd melt over!
Also like the dark coats, so black or very dark brown. I've had more dark browns than any other, seem to suit them!
 
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