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The basic coat colors of a horse are bay, chestnut, and black. White is not considered a base color which is actually the absence of pigmentation in the horse's skin and coat. Brown is sometimes said to be a base coat color but it's not, actually technically there are only 2 base colors red (chestnut) and black.


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Smoky Cream. Another rare color is the smoky cream. These horses have black as their base coat, with dark pink skin coloring and blue or glass eyes. The smoky color comes from a double cream dilution gene. The result is a pale, coffee-to-cream hue with manes and tails in smoky blue, yellow, sooty, or coffee-brown.


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What Are Common Horse Colors? Combinations of two pigments (or the lack of them)—red and black—result in four main coat colors: bay, black, chestnut, and gray. The rest of the colors are variations of these four and depend on how a gene is presented in a particular horse. Color Basics Chestnut A chestnut is a red horse.


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Equine color comes down to two basic pigments: black and red. Stacey Nedrow-Wigmore Just to get things started… did you know that gray isn't considered a color, but rather a pattern of white hairs? Read on! The ABCs of Color Actually, the above subhead should read "The A's & B's of Color."


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There are only four basic horse colors. Bay, brown, black and chestnut. Everything else is a variation on these four colors.or the absence of color.giving you white. The term ' markings ' refers to the white areas on a horse, usually on the face and legs. The term 'black points' is used to describe a black mane and tail with black legs.


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5. White. There are many types of horses with unique and beautiful coats, but a true white is very rare. As a matter of fact, the majority of white horses tend to be grays with a white hair coat. A pure white horse will have snow-white hair along with pink skin and brown eyes (though some can have blue eyes).


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The two basic pigment colors of horse hairs are pheomelanin ("red") which produces a reddish brown color, and eumelanin, which produces black. These two hair pigment genes create two base colors: chestnut, which is fully red, and black, which is fully black. All other coat colors are created by additional genes that modify these two base colors.


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1. Horse Colors: Bay A horse is describing as being bay if the body coat is bay, although the shade may differ from dull red, approaching brown, to a yellowish color, approaching chestnut. The tail and mane are black, and there is a black on the lower parts of the legs and tips of the ears. 2. Horse Coat Color: Chestnut


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Roan. Roan horses have white hairs or ticking throughout their coats. Roans are born with their coat color and do not change (at least much) over time. Roans come in a variety of base colors.


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Horse color chart To have a head-start of the various colors horses have, here is a comprehensive presentation of the basic colors and some horse breeds where basic colors and combined colors could be seen.


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Horse Color#1: Black If a horse is truly black, it should have no other color in its coat besides potential white markings on its face or legs. Many horses that appear to have a black coat aren't truly black but instead have a dark bay coat.


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The dazzling array of horse coat colors originates from just two primary pigments: black and red. From these, four fundamental colors emerge: black, gray, bay, and chestnut. The various shades we observe stem from the interplay—or occasionally, the absence—of these pigments, creating a wide spectrum of beautiful colors.


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Horses can be found in a wide variety of different colors but the most common colors are black, bay, chestnut, sorrel, brown, dun, buckskin, gray, pinto (or Paint), spotted, roan, and palomino. One of the rarest coat colors though is white. How many horse colors are there?


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This comprehensive horse color chart helps you identify horse colors and markings plus gain a deep understanding of Quarter Horse color genetics.


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Having various color patterns, these creatures become more unique and exquisite by pleasing the eye of their owners. Here we described the most typical horse colors as well as their patterns but the list can be extended with rarer colorings and markings. We also included a horse color chart to show how different the horse coat color pattern may be.


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1. Bay. Horses' coats are made of two basic colors of hairs - red and black. What's known as red is actually a reddish-brown color. Bay is the name given to coats that contain a mixture of these two colors. Bay horses can have coats that look anything from a light reddish brown to a dark chocolate shade.

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