This message is from: "Mike May, Registrar NFHR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At 10:08 AM 5/11/00 +0200, you wrote:
This message is from: "Anneli Sundkvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mike wrote:
>> According to the Spoonenburg article all Fjords have the Dun Gene. So I
still think calling them Dun is the correct terminology. Most of them do
have some eel strip although it is very light or missing in some places.>>
I agree! All fjords are dun, I think it's rather the word 'yellow' that is
misleading since apparently not all yellow duns are yellow. I think they
are called 'isabella duns' (isabellblack) here in Sweden. An isabella
horse is nothing but a diluted chestnut, no matter what shade of the
colour it come in. Most of them are yellowish, but they might be anything
from very light cremecoloured to dark golden.
I agree the color descriptions of the Fjords into English may not be the
best. A lot of people think we should call the White Dun a Uls Dun
instead. The problem is that other than people that have been around
Fjords for awhile wouldn't know what that meant. The same would be true
for us using Isabella dun. I have never heard of the color isabella
before. (In fact my spell checker says that neither isabella or uls are
correctly spelled).
Actually the Grey Dun is a confusing one too. Here in the US a Grey or
Gray horse is a totally different color than the grey dun Fjord. If these
were Quarter horses all of the grey duns would be Grullo. <sp>
Mike
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