Does anyone know the color of this horse?
Just for fun. I know but does anyone else? It may not be what you think. He is a paint bred. He is grown now and still the same color.
http://spotted. horsecity. com/pages/big_photo. php?mm=1489155&gallery=302277
He is a black horse with a Silver Dapple dilute gene. His dam is the same. He is one of three out of 5 foals from her that have the silver gene and all look the same. Her other 2 foals are black. I originally thought they were chocolate palomino, but the description from the University of California Davis of the silver dapple gene fits the dam and her offspring. The silver dapple only shows on black horses and lightens the body. They have a flaxen mane and tail that may darken as the horse ages. Her sire was a black tobiano and And dam was a QH. I don't know where the silver gene came from. She apparently is homozygous before black since all five of her foals have been black or black diluted. I like this unusual look for a horse. DaisyJK there's your answer. Thanks everybody for the guesses.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 7:45 pm
umm chocolate brown?
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:38 pm
brown
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:36 pm
take his sun glasses off, where the sun can shine right on in.
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:56 pm
this horse is a theroubread
March 22nd, 2010 at 10:44 pm
liver chestnut?
March 22nd, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Maybe grulla?
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:50 pm
cappicino
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:53 pm
I have always referred to that color as “seal brown”.
March 23rd, 2010 at 12:10 am
grulla or chocolate brown.
March 23rd, 2010 at 1:10 am
Buckskin?
March 23rd, 2010 at 1:29 am
Grulla? Pretty foal.
March 23rd, 2010 at 2:23 am
Liver chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail?
March 23rd, 2010 at 3:15 am
if u shave him it would be gray
March 23rd, 2010 at 3:52 am
I would prolly wait until he blows his foal coat and starts his horse coat to know for sure what color this foal is. I would have to say that he would be a grulla though. But like I said you wont know that for sure until he is a weanling or even a yearling.
March 23rd, 2010 at 4:02 am
I’m with Alice H. I know he has a flaxen mane and tail but not sure of what color his coat is. What a pretty baby! Is he yours? Would love to see some pictures now! P.S.Whats a grulla?
March 23rd, 2010 at 4:28 am
chocolate with flaxen or silver mane and tail. Rocky mountians call them a silver dapple but that is a misnomer.
If you are looking at a rocky mountain with this coloration have its eyes vet checked. Rockies with this color have a tendency towards blisters on the retina which can lead to blindness. Not all horses with this color have blistering and not all those with blisters go blind, but the potential is there. The problem comes not in the color but in the fact that the stallion which gave this color to the rockies had a genetic abnormality which causes the blistering. Unfortunately the gen is found on one of the chromosomes which carries one of the necessary genes for this color combo. Thus many of the stallions descendants exhibiting the color also exhibit retinal blisters.
I added that in about the rockies because I was not sure if you had outcrossed his dam or not. If he is pure paint then call him chacolate or dark chestnut with flaxen mane and tail.
He is not liver chestnut that is darker still. Dark chocolate or chocolate. Liver chestnut is near black. Liver chestnut is not supposed to produce produce the flaxen mane and tail since the sooty gene necessary covers it up.
BTW The term chocolate palomino is also a misnomer. Since a palomino is a dilute chestnut. Chocolate horses do not have dilution genes.
Grullas are blacks with the dun gene. No line down its back so it is not a grulla.
March 23rd, 2010 at 5:03 am
Either liver chestnut, or brown?????
March 23rd, 2010 at 5:46 am
this horse is a chocolate palomino
March 23rd, 2010 at 6:06 am
Perlino, a double Dilute out of Pinto/Paint breeding is my guess like this Set of Perlino Carriage Horses Peaches and Cream—check them out-Equine Now listing of perlino paint horses for sale.
http://www.equinenow.com/perlinopaint.htm – 37k – Cached – Similar pages**Wow just looking at your gallery, beautiful horse’s lucky you! And beutiful place to live.
March 23rd, 2010 at 6:39 am
looks like it will turn out to be a dun or bay it looks like a chesnut tho
March 23rd, 2010 at 7:26 am
hmm maybe partially dun? or something like chocolate palomino like lucy said.
March 23rd, 2010 at 7:45 am
it’s a grulla. definately. by bff is a horse judge, she said its a grulla
March 23rd, 2010 at 7:51 am
i would say sorrel, maybe a shade of gray or grulla? remember that it will change though.
March 23rd, 2010 at 8:43 am
Grulla?
March 23rd, 2010 at 9:05 am
Def. a Grulla
March 23rd, 2010 at 9:22 am
One other poster has it right so far.
This horse carries the “silver dapple” gene, or whatever term you want to use. This gene makes the points on a horse a light color – on a black you get a black horse with a light amber mane and tail. On a bay you get a dark body with chocolate or lighter brown legs and mane and tail.
This gene isn’t officially reconginzied by either APHA or AQHA, but it obviously does exist. Morgan is just beginning to recognize it – I have friends who paid big money to import a Mogran yearling stud colt with the gene – he’s a bay version with the light, almost flaxen colored mane and tail.
This coloration is most common in Rocky Mountain horses (and I agree with the other poster who commented that it is often paired with a genetic eye problem in that breed) It is also fairly common in shetland ponies and mini horses – I owned a mini that looked somewhat like a liver chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail. That color confused alot of horse people who wanted to call it a chocolate palomino.
March 23rd, 2010 at 9:38 am
You got a lot of guesses….will you add details and tell us the correct answer?
I’m guessing chocolate palomino, but Jeff or Paint Pony had pretty good answers….I don’t know as much about the genetics side of things, just going by looks.
March 23rd, 2010 at 10:28 am
I would have said chocolate palomino…
But that seems to be wrong…so I’m waiting for your answer!
March 23rd, 2010 at 11:06 am
Why do horse colors have to be complicated? Why can’t they just call palomino horses blonde? Not wanting anyone to be mad! I think its grulla