This message is from: GAIL RUSSELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I posted a while back about my now-yearling colt who I thought was grey, but he did not match the descriptions I have always had of grey babies - in that his back stripe is definitely a sort of rosy brown and his leg markings are the same. I now know that this colt IS a grey, but he still has the rosy brown markings. The best I am able to figure is that the grey underneath has been diluted by sun bleaching (the hairs underneath his stripe do seem to be a smokey grey - but NO WAY are they black or charcoal colored.
I have seen pictures of other grey duns that look just like this - including some pictures of Erland. Everyone else seems to be seeing a charcoal grey backstripe when I am seeing a rosey brown. I could be the one who is deluded but my current guess is that the backstripes and leg markings on the winter coats of the greys are much lighter, and when sunbleached, they are rosy brown, and not grey at all. >>Another question: we talk about the five different fjord colours - >>brown, red, grey, white/uls and yellow dun. But what happens if a grey >>dun horse also has the creme-gene(C)? I guess they should be called >>'smokey grey dun' or something. What do they look like? Do we know of >>any such horses? At least we should add this colour to the possible >>fjord colours, since there must be a chanse for a fjord to be 'smokey >>grey dun' or am I wrong on this one? >> Gail Russell Forestville CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
