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Naming My Colors

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I think I'll need help with some of these. I think I got most of them down though.

Here's the first:
Golden Bleak

Buckskin or Palomino and with or without dun? I know he carries one cream gene, but I can't tell if he inherited two chestnut genes or is a wild bay expression. I also can't see any stripes so I think he missed getting the dun gene from either parent. The white mane and tail certainly doesn't help.
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Re: Naming My Colors

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BlackOak2 wrote:I think I'll need help with some of these. I think I got most of them down though.

Here's the first:
Golden Bleak

Buckskin or Palomino and with or without dun? I know he carries one cream gene, but I can't tell if he inherited two chestnut genes or is a wild bay expression. I also can't see any stripes so I think he missed getting the dun gene from either parent. The white mane and tail certainly doesn't help.
Palomino as a base. The coloration on the face makes me think dun as well(especially in his picture at 5.05 years).
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Re: Naming My Colors

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Thank You Raikit.

Here's another...
Impressions Of The Blue Crown

Silver brown dun? or an odd expression of wild bay/bay? Perhaps I'm a bit further off base?
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And another...
Sandy Flecks

An expression of varnish? Or do I have it correct as flaxen chestnut?
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Re: Naming My Colors

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Is there an easier way to define bay versus wild bay than fetlock-black length?
For instance, are these two horses bay or wild bay?
Sometimes I can go back into their ancestry and figure it out, but these two (related) are still stumping me.
Golden Blue Nobility

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Silver Bay Roan? Is there perhaps another reason why the roan coloration has such a bright color? Could this be an extension or an unusual expression of the silver gene?
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Silver brown roan, but is there a cream there too?
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Chestnut, but does she have pangare/mealy? Or is that an expression of something else?
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So this one is... different. Best I could fathom, is silver wild bay. There is little indication in her ancestry of pangare or dun and there doesn't seem to be any hidden dilution genes.
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Both her parents carry dun, but does she have it?
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