[tightpaycheck]

I know you can't tell much from the picture, but does anyone have ideas? My new filly was born buckskin, but she is shedding out almost black. Her momma is bay, an dad is a buckskin. I couldn't tell that she had any kind of dorsal stripe, and her legs don't look any darker than the rest of her. I'm thinking she could either be dark bay, buckskin, brown or smokey black. But would a dark bay be born buckskin? And how can you tell the difference? Are there any sure signs? I did try looking it up online already, but none of the sites I saw were helpful.

[Canadian Sage]

The possabilities are:

Buckskin - 30%
Bay - 21%
Sorrel - 20%
Black - 14%
Palomino - 12%
Brown - 2%


And from looking at her pictures, I bet she will be a NICE dark buckskin filly!

[Barefoot]

I'd call her - STUNNING! heheh She's a nice little girl. I'd be very proud of her.

I see Buckskin.
My observations are, she has dark edging around her ears. Dark muzzle, dark mane/tail. And the cream colour her coat is shedding against that streak of white shows the creamyness of her coat. Cant be mistaken for Brown.

She's beautiful..... Congrats!

[tightpaycheck]

Thanks! I'm pretty excited! I spent too much but.... Anyway, all the light parts are her baby fur. She is shed out more now, and you can see she is really dark. How dark can she be and still be considered buckskin? At this point her mane and body are almost the same color.

[Miss Neigh]

Maybe a burnt buckskin. She is beautful by the way.

[Appylvr]

She's gorgeous!!!! It looks to me like you've got a pretty little buckskin there. The dark ones are called Smutty Buckskins. You can also tell by the eyes. I noticed a lot of cream foals have the dark blue eyes when they're little.

I once read of a QH stallion that was registered as a Bay, but after a few years of breeding his owners had him DNA tested because he kept siring buckskin and palomino foals out of non cream mares. He did turn out to be a buckskin, but he was so dark he looked just like a bay.

This is the sire to my Palomino gelding... he's pretty dark, but he's a buckskin.

[prettyqtrs]

Bay x Buckskin gives you the following possibilities...
Bay, Buckskin, Black, Smokey Black, Sorrel, Palomino

I'm going to guess she's either a buckskin or a smokey black. If she's a buckskin, she's just a darker shade of one right now. (Smutty or sooty buckskin). Generally smokey blacks look very smiliar to a black horse-sometimes a shade or two lighter. And buckskins can really vary in their shades- from really light to really dark and everything in between.
You could always have her tested, then you'd know for sure.

But none the less- she's a cutie!

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[tightpaycheck]

Originally Posted by Appylvr

She's gorgeous!!!! It looks to me like you've got a pretty little buckskin there. The dark ones are called Smutty Buckskins. You can also tell by the eyes. I noticed a lot of cream foals have the dark blue eyes when they're little.

I once read of a QH stallion that was registered as a Bay, but after a few years of breeding his owners had him DNA tested because he kept siring buckskin and palomino foals out of non cream mares. He did turn out to be a buckskin, but he was so dark he looked just like a bay.

This is the sire to my Palomino gelding... he's pretty dark, but he's a buckskin.

He is really dark! She isn't lighter around the ears like that, but he may just be sun-faded. She has one blue eye, the other is brown. She isn't halter broke or weaned yet so I couldn't get close enough to tell what color brown her other eye was. Here blue eye is neat, it's a dark blue. I am going to get her tested, since I need to test for lethal white anyway.

[cjohns]

I thought that true buckskins had all 4 black legs. I thought their legs had to be a solid color and the same on each leg????

I think I looked at a color chart about this before because we thought that we had a buckskin and it turned out to be a line back dun.