a color question

[Katiean]

I have a black mare that is registered as bay. But she is really really dark. The woman that owns the stable I just moved them to showed me her true black mare and we went back to look at Ellie. The only color difference she has to not say black is the hair on the inside of her ears is lighter colored. She has no brown in her groin or her muzzle. She is out of a silver dapple and by a buckskin.

This is a picture of Ellie as a foal.

This is Ellie Now.

 

[ohmt]

It's hard to tell from these pictures, but she looks black to me. Her breeder probably confused the typical brownish/grayish baby fuzz of a black foal for bay.

 

[Mona]

If I remember correctly, I think this girl is a daughter to a buckskin BTU son I once owned...Waterford?? If so, I am guessing your mare is most likely a smokey black...that is, a black carrying cream.

 

[horsenut50]

To me she looks to be a dark bay. From the second picture it looks she has brown on her flank area and her muzzle plus I can see her black socks. You won't find that on a true black. I have three true blacks and they are really black.

 

[Wings]

I am guessing your mare is most likely a smokey black...that is, a black carrying cream.

That's certainly a possibility, smokey black seems to be the sneakiest of the cream colours! At least you could test her for it.

 

[supaspot]

I have dark bay and black horses and she looks like a dark seal bay to me ,

 

[Katiean]

Yes Mona, she is by the BTU son you are thinking of. I think you said you owned him for a short time? What throws me is the silver blue gray hair in her ears. At this time she shows no brown in her flanks or on her muzzle. Just the lighter hair in the ears. If you body clip this girl she is a bluish black gray just darker than the fuzz in her ears now and you can see no black socks.

 

[Mona]

The lighter color in the ears can be due to carrying cream.

 

[supaspot]

The lighter color in the ears can be due to carrying cream.

Ive heard that several times but every one Ive tested have come back as negative for cream

 

[Riverdance]

Does she have unusually light eyes? If not, if they are dark, she is a black and less likely to be a smokey black There are many blacks that, when in the sunlight fade out and one can see the black legs. A blue or true black will not fad out. Just because other blacks fade out does not mean they are not black.

Light hair in the ears does not mean they are carrying the cream gene.

 

[minifreishorsefarm]

I have a black mare that is registered as bay. But she is really really dark. The woman that owns the stable I just moved them to showed me her true black mare and we went back to look at Ellie. The only color difference she has to not say black is the hair on the inside of her ears is lighter colored. She has no brown in her groin or her muzzle. She is out of a silver dapple and by a buckskin.

This is a picture of Ellie as a foal.

This is Ellie Now.

The pic of her now looks to be a dark bay to me. Got any not so harry pics?

Marsha

 

[Katiean]

I will have to take some new pictures. The pic in her winter woollies is from a couple of years ago. I am going up to trim feet on Tuesday or Wednesday so I will take a couple of new pictures. Even though she is once again in her winter woollies She is now darker than she was.

 

[supaspot]

why dont you test for agouti and then youd get the answer , for a few dollars it would stop you wondering and the answer is back very quickly , mine was back only a week after they received it