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A roan has intermixed light and dark hairs similar to a young gray horse, but unlike a gray does not lighten to white. Dun horses have a solid-colored hair coat that also does not lighten with age. Gray horses are prone to equine melanoma. [4] Variations of gray that a horse may exhibit over its lifetime include:
Similarly, horses with a bay base coat and the cream gene will be buckskin or perlino. A black base coat with the cream gene becomes the not-always-recognized smoky black or a smoky cream. Cream horses, even those with blue eyes, are not white horses. Dilution coloring is also not related to any of the white spotting patterns.
A pinto horse, with patches of white and of another color. A pinto horse has a coat color that consists of large patches of white and any other color. Pinto coloration is also called paint, [1] particolored, [2]: 171 or in nations that use British English, simply coloured. Pinto horses have been around since shortly after the domestication of ...
Image showing the variation between winter and summer coat color on the same palomino horse. In the United States, some palomino horses are classified as a color breed . However, unlike the Appaloosa or the Friesian , which are distinct breeds that also happen to have a unique color preference, Palomino color breed registries often accept a ...
Many colors are possible, but all variations are produced by changes in only a few genes. Bay is the most common color of horse, [ 2 ] followed by black and chestnut. A change at the agouti locus is capable of turning bay to black , while a mutation at the extension locus can turn bay or black to chestnut .
Bay horses range in color from a light copper red, to a rich red blood bay (the best-known variety of bay horse) to a very dark red or brown called dark bay, mahogany bay, black-bay, or brown (or "seal brown"). The dark brown shades of bay are referred to in other languages by words meaning "black-and-tan."
Bay roan (sometimes called "red roan") A "blue roan", roaning over a black base coat Red roan, roaning over chestnut, sometimes called "strawberry roan" Roan is a horse coat color pattern characterized by an even mixture of colored and white hairs on the body, while the head and "points"—lower legs, mane, and tail—are mostly solid-colored.
A Heck horse. In terms of equine coat color genetics, all of these shades are based on the dun gene acting as a dilution gene over the black gene. Because the grulla color is not due to the gray gene, a grulla horse remains the same basic color from birth, though some minor shade variation may occur from summer to winter coats. If a grulla also ...