What color are black foals?

[lovinarabs]

We had a foal born yesterday afternoon to a black dam and silver bay sire. The baby is dark, but not sure if he will be bay or black. What color are black foals at birth? Am I right that they aren't black, but darken with age?

 

[anita]

Black foals are born noir ( french) schwarz ( german)

Hope this helps without to mention b.......

Anita

 

[user 488]

Black foals can also born a mousey (ashen) grey...

You might want to take a look at this[SIZE=18pt].....Equine Color......BLACK[/SIZE]

 

[Marty]

I have three. Mine were all born smokey or greyishy but I never had one born coal black. They changed after the first clipping and are true blacks

 

[littlesteppers]

Here is my schwarzes foal :bgrin

 

[Bess Kelly]

Mine have been more of a charcoal grey look when first born.

 

[rockin r]

Both of Dayjas parents are true solid black...

Dayja 6 hours old...

Dayja at a few months...

Dayja at 6 months...

 

[lovinarabs]

So this little guy will probably be bay? He is alot lighter than the black babies.

 

[Songcatcher]

Bay indeed. However, after shedding he may be a lot darker than now.

 

[shane]

IM SO GLAD TO SEE THESE PICTURES...my mare has just had her very first foal, and she is black, and the sire is grey and i was certain that i would get a grey foal,

and i actually got a Black colt with white spots on his rump, its so weird as i always always wanted a black colt with a white spotty rump lol, im so over the moon,i couldnt describe the colour other than to say it looked like a donkey colour,

congratulations on your foal..... :aktion033:

 

[_minihorses4ever_]

Willie as an itty bitty baby: :bgrin

 

[shane]

gosh he looks so like my boy

: do they also have a black dorsal stripe running from head to tip of the tail?

 

[Miniv]

Our black babies start out more of a charcoal gray and then darken. We used to have a blue pinto mare with the graying gene and some of her babies would be born pitch BLACK. It was those we knew would probaby gray out.

MA

 

[Meavey]

Yes they often have big fake dorsals, they wil disappear after shedding or cliping, it´s a natural camouflage thing.

Alot of black foals are mistakenly registerred as dun.

 

[xxs]

Well..I have only had two blacks born,and they were born BLACK..but, they both turned out to be Appaloosa! LOL!! :bgrin

this is the colt

and this is his full sister..but she did turn a deep red at a few days old so I registered her as a chestnut . Now, with her being 3 yrs, I will have to change that as she truely is black.