[accphotography]

Do you like him any better knowing he is buckskin? LOL

I hope your baby looks like that too!

ACC

[kyryah]

Originally Posted by accphotography

Do you like him any better knowing he is buckskin? LOL

I hope your baby looks like that too!

ACC

Admittedly, yes, I do, ha ha. I know you "can't ride color" but bay is about my thing as much as Arabs are (ducks again.)

I am more a sorrel/palomino type o' gal. I do like buckskins and other dilutes.

I bet if you took a look at my history of owned horses, all of them but 2 out of a total of 9 were red based Either chestnut turned grey, sorrel, red dun, or red roan, lol.

Kristina

[accphotography]

I'm a red lover too. I love red duns, but grullas come close. I don't typically like bay based anything, but some buckskins are really appealing.

ACC

[kyryah]

I love pinto buckskins with minimal white, especially if the mane and tail is black with a lot of white on the face. I have always prefered minmal body markings over loud.

[accphotography]

Me too... I want all my white on the legs and head.

ACC

[Rae]

I would think the "frosting" is courtesy of the haflinger color coming through. My Belgian/Arabian mare is the same way. Pretty sure she's a bay.



Aren't all haflingers chestnut/sorrel, usually with a flaxen mane & tail and a mealy gene? Just like Belgians. And the vast majority of Belgian crosses have the mealy gene, which I believe causes that frosting. I'd think haflinger crosses would be the same way.

[accphotography]

Yes, both Belgians and Halflingers are flaxen chestnut with pangare' 9you called it mealy... same thing).

Well the sire was/is a Quarter Horse, so it is very possible he could have contributed cream (as well as the black gene) to the mix. Arabs don't have cream to contribute.'

I have never known pangare' (mealy) to present this way in the mane and tail of a black based horse without dun or cream... but I'll admit these breeds are not my area.

Your horse doesn't look bay AT ALL to me. In fact, it's color looks so much like a Norwegian Fjord that I would have said dun (except I don't see leg bars).

Don't know... curious now.

ACC

[Bodi]

Could be bay though. Not the gelding but the Arab/Haf. You sometimes see this color in the Belgian/Perch crosses. It's always funky, and I think because the pangare maybe?
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I'm also sorry but I get kind of put off by the saying of, you shouldn't pick a horse just because it's (bay, blue roan, buckskin). That there is somehow some problem because you like a horse and you happen to state one of your reason's for liking it IS for it's color. I'm sorry but if the horse doesn't appeal to me more than conformationally then why in the heck am I feeding it. I'd wrather feed a horse I like conformationally, and colorwise, and that I think gosh dang. That's a gorgeous horse, the color I want and everything else too! Coming from a breed being Percherons who people are so "color dumb" about, and I try not to say that in a negative way, but the simple fact is it is true. Here is a breed that doesn't just come in black and grey, and if your Percheron isn't just black or grey everyone instantly assumes the horse is not purebred, or that you bought it only for color. Yeah, we purchased a blue roan and we bought him for his color. The thing is though we picked him because he was the best available in his color at that time to us.

That doesn't mean we haven't picked plain ol' chestnut mare's in the past because we liked them for them. People just need to look outside the box of the color panic we all seem to have when somebody says they like a horse's color too. I'd much wrather like to eat my chocolate cake with cream cheese white frosting, but should I eat it with chocolate frosting too just because everybody else says I should and that's the norm? My policy is this, be open when it comes to color of horses. I don't judge a horse based solely on color, but anybody with their right mind is more likely to pick a color they like than one they just think is okay.

Nice horses by the way.

[accphotography]

Great post Bodi.

ACC

[Appylvr]

I'm confused??? What is there about the horse in the original post that makes anyone think Splash??? It looks just like a normal solid to me...