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The most common horse colors and patterns are bay, chestnut, gray, black, pinto, and dun. A horse's color is determined by many factors such as breed, genetics, age, and even season. Here is a helpful horse coat color chart: Credit: horsebreedspictures.com While many horses retain their original color at birth, this is not always the case.

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Step 1: Pigment. The basics begin with the pigment that create the color in horse hair. There are two pigments, one causes black and the other causes red. Which of these colors is expressed is controlled by the extension gene. A horse has two copies, which are written in capital or lowercase letters, depending on if the gene is dominant or.

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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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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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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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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 Colors, Patterns And Markings Share on Social Media There is a rainbow of horse coat colors. Some are more common, some are rare, many are pretty, some are gorgeous. Come along with me as we go over the basics of all the beautiful patterns, shades, variations, and colors of the equine world.

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Buckskin. Buckskin horses have a body color of various shades of yellow or gold, sometimes with a tannish tint. Their manes, tails, and lower legs are black. The buckskin color is similar to the dun color (below). One difference is that buckskin horses do not have a dorsal stripe, while duns do.

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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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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 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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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 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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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?