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Bay is a hair coat color of horses, characterized by a reddish-brown or brown body color with a black point coloration on the mane, tail, ear edges, and lower legs. Bay is one of the most common coat colors in many horse breeds. The black areas of a bay horse's hair coat are called "black points", and without them, a horse is not a bay horse.
Bay: A horse coat color that features black point coloration on a red base coat. All bay horses have a black mane, tail and legs (except where overlain by white markings), caused by the presence of the agouti gene. Most have black hairs along the edges of their ears and on their muzzles, and occasionally will have a slight darkening of the ...
[11]: 32 Genetically, a bay dun is a bay horse with the dun gene. A buckskin is bay horse with the addition of the cream gene, causing the coat color to be diluted from red to gold, usually without primitive markings. Visually, a bay dun is a tan-gold color, somewhat darker and less vivid than the more cream or gold buckskin, and duns always ...
A bay horse, showing black points. The word "points" is given to the mane, tail, lower legs, and ear rims with respect to horse coloration. The overall name given to a horse coat color depends on the color of both the points and the body. For example, bay horses have a reddish-brown body with black points. [3]
AA or Aa horse is bay, black hair shows only in points pattern (usually mane, tail, legs, sometimes tips of ears). aa: If horse has E allele, then horse will be uniformly black. MATP (Cream, Pearl) [5] Cr prl n: Cr/Cr: Horse is a double dilute cream (cremello, perlino, or smoky cream) and will have creamy off-white hair with pale eyes and skin.
They are most often bay, dark bay or brown, chestnut, black, or gray. [1] Less common colors recognized in the United States include roan and palomino. White is very rare, but is a recognized color separate from gray. [2] The face and lower legs may be marked with white, [3] but white will generally not appear on the body.
A skewbald horse, chestnut with white patches. Skewbald is a colour pattern of horses. A skewbald horse has a coat made up of white patches on a non-black base coat, such as chestnut, bay, or any colour besides black coat. Skewbald horses which are bay and white (bay is a reddish-brown colour with black mane and tail) are sometimes called ...
The frame overo pattern is the most common of the three types of overo patterns recognized in the American Paint Horse breed. [1] A frame overo horse appears to be any solid base color (bay, black, chestnut, etc.) with white irregular patches added, usually with a horizontal orientation.