Different Coat Colours!

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Today I am going to be talking about and explaining all the different colours of horse that you can find. There's definitely a lot of them so I'm not going to get all of them, but I'm going to try get the majority. :joy:

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Table of Contents

•Colours and Breeds Affect each other•

•Tricky Looking Colours•

•All those Colourful Coats•

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Colours and Breeds Affect Each Other

So first of all some colours are common to certain breeds, for example:

Haflingers are almost always flaxen chestnut, and friesians are almost always black.

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Where as other breeds like the Thoroughbred or Arabian I have basically every colour of coat you can find.

Some breeds have to only have specific markings, such as Dartmoors shouldn't have excessive white markings.

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Tricky Looking Colours

Did you know that there is no such thing as a white horse?

Yes, coat colours can be quite confusing sometimes!

There is no such thing as a white horse, they are all classified as grey, even Lippizanners! Lippizanners are born bay or black and turn grey as they mature. The same thing goes for most light grey horses.

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Also, there is a type of paint horse called the solid paint horse. This type of horse has to ed Paint Horse parents, but has none of the features of the classic Paint Horse! It is a solid colour horse usually Bay or chestnut, although other colours can appear as well

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All those Colourful Coats!

Bay

The bay coat can vary from a rich, chocolatey brown, to a light, hazel brown. They have black or dark brown mane. They can have multiple face and leg markings that can be white or black.

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Black

All the horse is black except for face and leg markings. There is a dark bay horse that has a bay muzzle called a seal brown, so don't get confused by the two.

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Pinto

These horses have a 'white' coat with large patches of colour. There is many types of paint horses, including overo, tobiano, skewbald and piebald.

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Grey

A mix of black and white hairs that make a grey tone. There is so many different types of Grey's, like steel grey, dapple grey, fleabitten grey

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Chestnut

Chestnut is an orange brown colour that can have leg and face markings. There is multiple kinds of chestnut, such as sorrel and liver chestnut.

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Roan

A solid colour with white hairs all over the body, this gives the coat an overall lighter effect. You can get multiple types of roan, like blue roan, red roan and strawberry roan.

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Buckskin

This colour is a sandy brown and has a dark coloured mane and tail. The horse can have a dorsal stripe, leg markings and face markings.

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Grulla

This colour is related to the dun gene and has a mouse coloured coat with black mane and tail. It usually has a dorsal stripe and occasionally zebra like markings in the back of the legs.

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Palomino

Palomino is a cream to gold colour, similar to buckskin. It usually has the same coloured or a lighter coloured mane and tail. You can find ones with dark coloured coats but they are usually more lighter coloured.

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Chocolate Palomino

Here is an example of a beautiful colour known as the chocolate palomino, they have palomino mane with a dark bay body.

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Brindle

This is a very strange colour that you may not know about. The coat is usually a solid colour coat with grey or brown streaks throughout the whole body.

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So that is all! I hope you enjoyed reading this little informative post I put together! I know that there are WAY more colours, but I just did a few of the most common ones and a few interesting ones. P.s thank you for 800 followers!!

            Anyways, bye!

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