horse Colors: Perlienno
Genetics:
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Description: Bay horses have a brown or red body color with black main, tail and (usually) legs. The black on the legs often bleeds into the brown body color as it reaches higher up on the legs.
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Foal Colors
Though many horse colors are significantly different at birth from their appearance as adults, Red horses are born looking pretty close to what they will look like all of their lives. The only difference is that the red colors is often a bit lighter at birth and darkens out into deeper shades of red as the horse grows up.
Though many horse colors are significantly different at birth from their appearance as adults, Red horses are born looking pretty close to what they will look like all of their lives. The only difference is that the red colors is often a bit lighter at birth and darkens out into deeper shades of red as the horse grows up.
Other Color Genes Mixed With Red
Other Colors Easily Mistaken for Red
There are few other colors which are easily mistaken for red.
There are few other colors which are easily mistaken for red.
Bay - The bay coloring can sometimes produce a red body, but a bay horse's main and tail are always black, whereas a red horse's main and tail are either red or white, so these is easily distinguished from each other.
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Red Chocolate - Some red chocolates horses may be mistaken for red at certain times in their lives. Most of them have enough black in their mains and tails that if they are going to be mistaken for anything other than a chocolate, it will be bay, but sometimes the chocolate gene lightens the main and tail just enough to make them look red rather than either flaxen or brown. (The Red Chocolate horse is, by the way, not actually derived from a red base color, but from a bay base color. The Chocolate gene (also known as the Silver Dapple gene) alters the horse's coloring much less than a normal chocolate horse whose base color is either Red or Black and who has the distinctive brown body with the flaxen main and tail.) |
Understanding the Breeding Process - Breeding Education
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