[guess who]

Originally Posted by Haas Horse Farm

Actually that could be a correct advert... in that a dun like any other color can go gray...

A grulla/grullo (either spelling is correct) but most registries use grullo...
is a black horse with the dun gene... They can vary in color tone drastically on the same horse... These are all the same mare....





Here is a sight that might help you understand colors better. Two things on it are incorrect in that they do not address brown as a color and they call champagne with cream... ivory... instead of ivory the term cream is added to the base color so a sorrel champagne which is called gold would be a gold cream....
http://www.geocities.com/colorgallery/genetics.html

Once you think you have that site down... here is another site with more detail...
http://www.horsecolor.com/

She looks really nice in the top photo

I understand most colour things, but i've never ever seen a grulla advertised here, and pains are just not very common at all, though they're starting to appear a bit

As for the dun/grey thing, I know they can change colour but this horse was 14 :S Or it was dun/chesnut or something.. still, I wouldn't be particularly put off if people listed the colours wrong. hehe.

[Mare]

Color experts help!! So could you color people please tell me what I have.

[accphotography]

Originally Posted by Berlunz

haha I love it, A palomino with a black mane and tail lmao thats classic. We went to see a horse once and the owner said it was "Tan" lmao. My mom read me the add and I responded with "Wow now they even have tanning beds for horses! Who knew, maybe we can take Honey and darken her up to a brown". It was just a plain old sorrel horse in the end but I love the names people come up with for horse colors.

I have a "tan" horse. Really... honestly.. she is tan. I suspect she is just an interesting chestnut, but I will be testing to see.

ACC

[accphotography]

Originally Posted by Haas Horse Farm

My pet peeve is silver grullo ... without the silver gene!!!! errr that is just wrong!!!

This is a HUGE pet peeve of mine as well.

ACC

[Shannon]

Originally Posted by accphotography

This is a HUGE pet peeve of mine as well.

ACC

Silver grullo actually has been used to describe a grullo with a creme gene. I believe this was before Silver (Z) was really identified.

[accphotography]

I've noticed that... but that is also very annoying since there IS a real term for that. And even with that in mind there are STILL LOTS of simple black duns with nothing else that are called silver grullos (no cream, no silver).

ACC

[Shannon]

Originally Posted by accphotography

I've noticed that... but that is also very annoying since there IS a real term for that. And even with that in mind there are STILL LOTS of simple black duns with nothing else that are called silver grullos (no cream, no silver).

ACC

LOL, this is very, very true. "Hey my horse is kind of silvery, let's call him a silver grullo!"

[accphotography]

Exactly. LOL :-D

ACC

[Haas Horse Farm]

Yep and DD were called Albinos once too... but that does not make it a correct term.

[Top Dun]

I got an e-mail today along those lines.

I'm particular to Dun horses and have said so on my website of my critters. Well I get an e-mail from an individual who has an appraisal service, and does equine consulting etc. The individual mentions that she read about how I like dun factor horses and then goes on to try and sell me a Buckskin. Granted on a bay horse, Dun and Cream create a similar appearance, But you don't get the same look in the red and Black horses with cream. Seriously you'd figure someone who claims to be an equine appraiser and consultant would know the difference between dun factor and the cream gene.