Color of this filly!

[Golden Lotus Stables]

Hi Guys,

http://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/446953

Can't seem to determine what color she may be, I know she has silver in her, can she be a dark silver bay or..

thanks

[Devolare]

I don't think she's silver. I think she's flaxen, the white legs give it away. My guess is she's a sooty flaxen red dun.

[Golden Lotus Stables]

But one of the parents if silver?

[Golden Lotus Stables]

can she be a flaxen with a bit of silver gene showing, coz I know flaxen can be carriers of silver gene

[Golden Lotus Stables]

maybe your right lol come to look back at the parent, got her confused for silver but she is flaxen

[Devolare]

Yep, the mother is flaxen too (not silver). And silver doesn't show up on chestnut, so to answer your other question...

can she be a flaxen with a bit of silver gene showing, coz I know flaxen can be carriers of silver gene

you can't have both silver and flaxen showing. Flaxen only shows up on chestnut horses, and Silver only shows up on non-chestnuts. Silver goes for the black in a horse's coat. Since chestnuts don't have black, they're ee, silver doesn't work on them.

[Golden Lotus Stables]

makes sense, sort of forgotten my genetics lol

[Malakai10]

Flaxen-liver chestnut-dun, I'd say, although one wold call it flaxen red dun. Its just that flaxen requires 2 copies of the gene to show... at least in real life. But flaxen red dun is the only colour she could be.

[Arctictea]

For reference:

Silver bay dun

Silver black (young, without dapples)

And your lady,
Flaxen chestnut dun

I can see why you mistook her for silver, she is very similar. But the lightness on her feet give her away as a flaxen, and so she must be chestnut.
When put next to each other, you can also see that she has a redder tint.

As Malakai10 points out, this does mean that her sire has one or two copies of the flaxen gene.

[Golden Lotus Stables]

Thanks Malakai, she does seem to have darker muzzle and legs in her, showing dun