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