This message is from: Steve Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You're right Anneli ... if the primitive dun colors of the Fjordhorse can be broken down as shown below, some ulsduns (white duns) should be black dilutes and not bay dilutes:
brown dun - bay dun red dun - chestnut dun gray dun - black dun ulsdun - buckskin (bay dilute) dun yellow dun - palomino (chestnut dilute) dun kvit - cremello/perlino (palomino/buckskin dilute) dun I would like to make a formal request that we change the English name for ulsblakken (or is that 'ulsblakk'?), 'white dun', to 'wool dun' or 'cream dun' or to use the word 'ulsdun', since 'white dun' is misleading and incorrect in light of the kvit. Or perhaps someone who owns a white dun has come up with a better suggestion. I've heard Dr. Brian say that there is a lot of variation in the colors of the brown dun. Most have the jet black stripe down the mane and a black or dark brown eel stripe, but some have varying shades of brown or grey in their manes and tails and legs with little or no true black. And some have only a partil dosal stripe and some don't have any dorsal stripe to speak of. I would assume the same could be said of the ulsduns, gray duns and red duns. And it is my understanding that some red duns have very little color in their manes and tails. My red duns mane stripe is such a pale brown that I have never bothered to give her a Dutch cut. I can see the stripe in there but it isn't very dark at all. Her tail is pale brown and yellow where my brown duns tail is black. About yellow duns ... remember the yellow dun is a dilute of the already softly colored red dun, so you can imagine that they should have even softer colors on their legs and in their manes and tails than the red dun would. That might mean little to no color in the mane and tail and softly colored leg markings and the reddish/brownish cast taken out of the body color leaving only a soft creamy-yellow pigment in the body color. However, studying the photo of the yellow dun in Norway, her leg marks look every bit as dark as my red duns leg markings do. But her body, mane and tail color is very different than my red duns' colors are. She looks like a very lovely Fjord. I think having a 'most vividly striped brown dun' Fjordhorse class at the shows would be lots of fun. >>><<< Meredith Sessoms >>><<< Moulton . Alabama . USA >>><<< Dorina and NFR Aagot
