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Bay
Bay is a hair coat color of horses, characterized by a reddish brown body color with a black 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...
Bay Silver
A chocolate-brown colored coat with a silvery mane and tail.
Black
Black is a hair coat color of horses in which the entire hair coat is black. Black is a relatively uncommon coat color, and novices frequently mistake dark chestnuts or bays for black. However, some breeds of horses, such as the Friesian horse,...
Buckskin
Buckskin is a hair coat color of horses; referring to a color that resembles certain shades of tanned deerskin. Similar colors in some breeds of dogs are also called buckskin. The horse has a tan or gold colored coat with black points (mane, tail,...
Chestnut
Chestnut is a hair coat color of horses consisting of a reddish-to-brown coat with a mane and tail the same or lighter in color than the coat. Genetically and visually, chestnut is characterized by the absolute absence of true black hairs. It is one...
Chestnut with Flaxen
Usually, a chestnut horse will have a mane and tail the same color as its body. Chestnut horses with lighter colored manes and tails are called "chestnut with flaxen", due to the suspected action of a yet-to-be-determined "flaxen" gene.
Cremello
Cremello is a horse coat color consisting of a cream colored body with a cream or white mane and tail. It occurs when a horse is homozygous for a dilution gene sometimes called the cream gene acting on a red (chestnut) base coat. Such horses have...
Dapple gray
Dapple gray is a type of coat color seen on horses. It consists of a dark hair coat with "dapples," or dark rings with lighter hairs on the inside of the ring, scattered over the entire body of the animal.
Dapple gray is an intermediate step in...
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Dark Bay
Very dark red or brown hair, also called "black bay," "mahogany bay," or "brown."
Dun
Dun is a brownish-gray color, sometimes seen in the hair coats of horse, characterized by a body color ranging from sandy yellow to reddish-brown. Dun horses always have a dark stripe down the middle of their back, which may continue into the tail...
Fleabitten Gray
Fleabitten gray is a color consisting of a white hair coat with small freckles of red-colored hair throughout. The fleabitten pattern can vary widely. Some horses may appear almost pure white, while others may have so many speckles that...
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Gray
Gray or grey is a coat color of horses characterized by progressive silvering of the colored hairs of the coat. Most gray horses have black skin and dark eyes; unlike many depigmentation genes, gray does not affect skin or eye color Their adult hair...
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Grullo
Grullo is a color of horses in the dun family, characterized by tan-gray or mouse-colored hairs on the body, often with shoulder and dorsal stripes and black barring on the lower legs. In this coloration each individual hair is mouse-colored, unlike...
Liver
Liver is a term used to describe certain types of dark brown color in dogs and horses.
In dogs, it is a dark brown shade.
In horses, "liver chestnut" is a term used to describe a chocolate-colored chestnut horse. A liver chestnut is the same...
Palomino
Palomino is a coat color in horses, consisting of a gold coat and white mane and tail. Genetically, the palomino color is created by a single allele of a dilution gene called the cream gene working on a "red" (chestnut) base coat. However, most...
Perlino
Perlino is a color in horses created by a dilution gene, also known as the creme gene acting on an underlying Bay coat color.
When such a horse is homozygous for the dilution gene, it will be perlino. Perlino horses have a light creme-colored coat...
Roan
Roan is a coat color found in many animals, notably horses, cattle and dogs. It is defined generally as an even mixture of white and pigmented hairs that does not "gray out" or fade as the animal ages. There are a variety of genetic conditions which...
Strawberry Roan
A chestnut horse with a roan pattern.
