Comments on: Horse Color Anecdotes

By: Evelyn Germaine

Evelyn Germaine — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:49:48 +0000

“Now, there’s a horse of a different color,” we think. It’s funny how humans also get stereotyped in the same way based on their physical features. Has anyone heard if hoof supplements can change a horse’s color?

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:16:52 +0000

I have a bucksin and she certainly acts like she can’t be killed .. or pushed around by anyone, including the much bigger geldings!

Melissa

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:36:57 +0000

Sherry, you didn’t say if it’s a bay dun (with black points) or a red dun (a chestnut with a dorsal stripe).

If a bay dun, you could end up with a bay, bay dun, or a black foal (since both bay and bay dun are black based colours), and also possibly a chestnut or perhaps a red dun foal, if both parents have the right genes!

If the sire is a red dun, then you might get a bay, bay dun, chestnut, or a red dun.

Quite the range of possibilities, eh? Hope you have a beautiful healthy foal, no matter what the colour turns out to be!

Susan

By: Sherry

Sherry — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:52:17 +0000

Hello,

My question is….I just bred my Bay Half Arabian/American Saddle Bred Mare to a dorsal striped Dun stallion. What color foal could I end up with?

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:45:00 +0000

LOL Funny but mostly wrong in my 36+ years of horses! I had a crazy grey, a quiet kids’ horse sorrel, three lucky paints none medicine hats, a quiet black that was sure-footed with GREAT white feet who showed the white of his eye, a fast skinny bay, a clunky fat chestnut, and numerous others – including an Appy Palomino with light blue eyes who was NOT blind, a roan mini, and many others… and I’m not quite 40, I’ve just ridden and owned many that all lived long long lives but one… just like people, don’t stereotype!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:03:59 +0000

Nice poem! Guess it lives up to poetic license, since most people have known exceptions to the ‘rule’. A well-known writer in horsey publications once told me, ‘guess it’s true that bay horses never die, they just end up at the “_________” place.’
Thank you for the opportunity to post my thoughts.

By: Brooks

Brooks — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:12:10 +0000

I have 2 chestnuts. One’s laid back and pretty fast. The other is hot and long strided and so far quick as a cat. I also have a sorrel that can be on the hot side of things…. Never really had a problem out of white feet yet. *knock on wood* And I have a palomino out of buckskin mare, who really did last and last although it was at bucking… not riding.

By: Bettty

Bettty — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:54:32 +0000

Have a sorrel that’s hot (good thing she is a mini) and a black that takes his corners too fast in the snow and wipes out. The buckskin is definitely the energizer bunny he is still full of life at the end of the day at the shows while my daughter and I (we both show him) are exhausted. Cute poem!

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:05:26 +0000

So where is the palomino in this poem? Mine seems to be in the Dun group, if that makes sense.

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:58:21 +0000

We had to put our bucksin down at 10 due to ringbone – we only had him a year. We had a great sorrell kid horse that did love to run but I would never call him hot! However my beautiful pinto will always be my favorite!!

By: Linda V

Linda V — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:53:31 +0000

Those old wives were just wrong! My chestnut with 2 white feet and a white sclera is drop dead quiet, pokey slow and has great feet. His nickname is “speedy” and not because of how fast he goes.

However, he is a bit on the chubby side…

By: Fiona Bugera

Fiona Bugera — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:32:24 +0000

I love this little poem…my buckskin will outlast me I think. Also have a very hardy bay, a racing fast chestnut, and a sorrel who may put me in the grave on day. Got to love them all!