| What color is a horse? The words for a
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| | horses.
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| horse's coat color have very specific
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| | Dun horses have a sandy yellow to reddish
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| meanings.
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| | brown coat. Their legs are usually darker
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| A bay horse has a body coat that is a
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| | than their body and they sometimes have
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| shade of brown with black legs, mane, and
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| | faint zebra stripes on their legs. Dun
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| tail. Within the bay group, there are
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| | horses always have a dark stripe down the
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| blood bays which is a more dark reddish
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| | middle of their back along their back
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| shade of brown and bright bays which can
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| | bone, known as a dorsal stripe.
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| look a golden brown. There are also black
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| | Sometimes the dorsal stripe continues
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| bays, which might appear to most people
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| | down the horse's tail and through the
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| as a black horse. Truly black horses are
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| | mane. Many dun colored horses also have
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| a more rare color.
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| | face masking, which makes the horse's
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| Most horses that you might think look
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| | nose and sometimes the rest of the face a
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| black are black bays, which is a very
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| | darker color than the horse's body.
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| dark brown. You will see lighter colored
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| | A buckskin horse has a sandy yellow or
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| hair between the hind legs and tummy area
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| | tan color with black legs, mane, and
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| and around the muzzle. This makes them
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| | tails. Buckskins are similar looking to
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| black bays instead of black horses.
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| | duns, except that buckskins do not have a
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| People also call this seal brown.
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| | dorsal stripe or other primitive markings
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| A chestnut horse has a coat that is a
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| | that are seen in duns.
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| shade of red, while the legs, mane, and
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| | Palomino horses have gold-colored coat
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| tail may be lighter or darker than the
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| | with a white or light cream colored mane
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| body, or the same color, but never black.
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| | and tail. A palomino coat can range from
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| A chestnut horse can be any shade of red,
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| | a light off-white shade to a deep shade
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| reddish-brown, or orangey-red. A very
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| | of gold.
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| dark brownish red with no black on the
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| | Roan horses have white hairs mixed with a
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| legs, mane, or tail is known as liver
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| | body color to produce blue roan, which is
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| chestnut. It is a more rare color. Sorrel
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| | roan mixed with black, red roan, which is
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| is another word for a light chestnut
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| | roan and bay, and strawberry or rose
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| color.
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| | roan, which roan and chestnut.
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| Grey horses have black skin with white or
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| | There are other white body markings and
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| gray hair. A grey horse might look white,
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| | spots that can affect the horse color to
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| but if its skin is dark, it is a grey.
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| | be a Paint or an Appaloosa, which also
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| Grey horses are born a dark color, such
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| | have breed registries just for them.
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| as black or brown, and their coat grows
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| | (We'll save those topics for another
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| lighter as they grow older. There are
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| | article.)
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| light grey, dapple grey, flea-bitten
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| | So next time you see a brown or black
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| grey, and steel grey variations in
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| | horse, look carefully - What color is the
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| coloring. A white horse must have pink
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| | horse?
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| skin, which is more rare than grey
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