Forum rules
You can link to a horse using our new custom BBCode:
[horse=1234]Horses Name[/horse]
This will display the most recent photo of the horse as well as a link to him.
Claudebot
kness123 Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Sat May 04, 2019 8:39 pm Posts: 166

Please help with these colors!!!

Post by kness123 »

I desperately need help with classifying colors for my horses...

For example:
How would you classify this Arabian's colorations


I think he has a tiger's eye, but I'm lost with his coat color, I've never seen that before...

And then I have also gotten into breeding North African Barbs, but I don't know what color you would consider most of my NABs, any help there?
Claudebot
BlackOak2 Offline
Premium
PremiumPremium Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Sat Jan 30, 2016 12:41 am Posts: 11159

Re: Please help with these colors!!!

Post by BlackOak2 »

kness123 wrote:I desperately need help with classifying colors for my horses...

For example:

I think he has a tiger's eye, but I'm lost with his coat color, I've never seen that before...

And then I have also gotten into breeding North African Barbs, but I don't know what color you would consider most of my NABs, any help there?
I will help you name the ones you have (including some identifying characteristics), once you get used to the game, check out our color forum help topics. It is extensive and it takes time to learn, but it's worth it, when you can name your own colors. :D

Some things to keep in mind with colors:
First, a foal has a foal coat that blows at 1 year. The foal coat isn't always indicative of adult coats and often times hide distinguishing characteristics.
Second, there are no white markings on the game (no stars, socks, stockings... so on), all the white 'markings' you see are in fact patterns created by the tobiano gene (to date, only tobiano paint has been released in game).
Third, there are no true-white horses in game yet. If the horse appears white in color, it is either a gray horse, a double or triple dilute or some sort of unique combination of pangare, dun and dilution (used here to indicate cream, pearl and champagne). Most of the pseudo-whites are triple dilutes (champagne paired with double cream).

Espresso appears to be a graying silver brown cream. Silver makes the tail and mane on the horses white on black, brown and bay, it's just like flaxen on chestnut. Your horse doesn't have tiger eye, but that's certainly an understandable conclusion since the eyes aren't brown. Tiger eye turns the eyes shades of green (green, hazel, gray-green), but both double cream and cream & pearl turn the eyes blue.

In your sale horses pasture, all of these horses are tobiano (they show patterns), that's easy enough to identify.
Twilight is black.
Cream is a brown dun roan. Brown has a dark body with brown points (nose and stomach). In this case, the dun (indicative of the stripe down the dorsal or spine), has bled the brown body into gray. Roan is also apparent. Roan is any coat color intermixed with white hairs.
Penny is another black girl. Plus she has a hidden cream, so she would be a smoky black. If a horse like this ever throws a double dilute foal (like she has), it means she has a hidden pearl or a hidden cream. She could have a hidden pearl, but it's much more likely that she has a hidden cream.

Your Under Observation pasture.
Dixie appears to be a red dun with Lp (blanket). She has tiger eye. When not paired with champagne, it takes two tiger eye genes to express. So Dixie has two tiger eye genes. Lp will also continue to fade and change her body color throughout her life, this is Lp varnish. This is why it's imperative to get as close to 1 year as possible for Lp offspring and Lp-suspect offspring.
Pepper is a silver dapple. Silver paired with black. Only when silver is paired with black will this dappling effect come out. There are two other dappling effects in the game, those are paired with the graying gene (the dappling will appear then disappear) and the sooty gene (these are rare and extremely hard to breed and make the gene stick).

Your Show Horse Barn. I've already explained Espresso.
Satin came from Royale, this color is correct (Royale in the color field can be used for a number of different identifications, including searching the sales for just specific horses, it is not necessarily a part of the color).
White Sand is a bit more difficult. His head is white, so it makes seeing some hints impossible. This horse appears to be a bay pearl dun. Similar to double cream, double pearl gives the horse pink skin. Unlike double cream, however, the eyes stay dark on a double pearl. There's quite a bit of primitive markings on this horse, so dun is easy to determine.
Socks is a brown dun and appears to also have pangare, sometimes however, sometimes it appears to be pangare and it's not. Pangare distinguishes itself by lightening the same areas that brown lightens, stomach and nose. However, pangare will also cause a slight goggling around the eye (it'll look like the horse is wearing swimmer's goggles), and will lighten the legs from the hooves upward.

Now for your last pasture, your Main pasture.
Dark Cherry is too young to be definite. But he appears to be a bay or brown with tobiano.
Copper is a silver brown dun pangare with snowflakes (Lp) and of course, tobiano.
Vanilla is a smoky brown pearl. Because we know the father is a double pearl and the mother most likely carries a hidden cream and not a pearl, then we know that their offspring has inherited one pearl and since she is unmistakably a double dilute, that means she also inherited the cream her mother was carrying. Thus we conclude that her mother is a cream carrier and we can say that Vanilla is a cream & pearl.
Caramel is still too early to tell for certain, but she appears to be a silver brown dun roan, of course with tobiano.
Haze will likely be exactly like his full sister, Vanilla. Cream & pearl.

I know I likely skipped over offering to name tobiano for some of your horses. Tobiano is quite obvious.
Thus, this concludes naming the colors on your farm!
:D
Cheers!
Don't forget to check it out!
Quick Start Guide For Newbies
Link to additional information.
BlackOak2's Quick-Links
Claudebot
kness123 Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Sat May 04, 2019 8:39 pm Posts: 166

Re: Please help with these colors!!!

Post by kness123 »

Thank you so much! This was extremely helpful!

Return to “What Colour Is My Horse?”