Three horses and a burrow!

**finn's mom** · 11-05-2005, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by Addie

does look alot like a red roan...I am very educated in horses, even if it gives a slight sorrel color, it could still be red roan. If it is darker at it's head and rear and legs and lighter on it's back and stomach and fades into the legs and rear and head, so it looks like a roan, though it could be a strawberry roan...

Blue Roan:

Blue roan gies the impression that the color is Blue, but it is actually a light grey and dark grey, no more, no less...light greay in the middle and dark grey on the head and legs. Sometimes with red or strawberry roan it is simply a variety of colors, like the strawberry roan is only a dark and a light sorrel...and it makes it look like a strawberry red

But, isn't there white in a roan? Geez, I'm only going by what y'all are showing me and what I saw...she looked nothing like that, her coat was the same color all over, just dusty. And, she had definite white socks, no fading at all. And, the other horse was dark, but, not grey anywhere...blech. I'm not trying to be a pain, but, I just don't see what y'all are seeing...unless what I read is not what roan is. But, every photo I've seen (the ones y'all have shown me and the ones I've found on my own) show roans as having white intermixed with the other color....

**areias** · 11-05-2005, 08:40 PM

In your first picture, the way the sun hits makes her look roan. Addie I think was just showing pictures, of what she likes.

**finn's mom** · 11-05-2005, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by areias

In your first picture, the way the sun hits makes her look roan. Addie I think was just showing pictures, of what she likes.

Yeah, I know the first picture was giving people that impression...but, even with the second close up...and, I was just going by Addie saying "does look a lot like a red roan"...

**Toby's my baby** · 11-05-2005, 08:56 PM

No, in the second picture you can definently see that she is NOT a red roan. She is definently a Chestnut. I am very educated in horse too, and I now for sure that she is a Chestnut, so Kari, we have to give YOU the credit, you were right all along!

-edit- Her mane and tail arent black though are they? Because then she would be a bay

. See, this horse stuff is complicated

**finn's mom** · 11-05-2005, 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by Toby's my baby

No, in the second picture you can definently see that she is NOT a red roan. She is definently a Chestnut. I am very educated in horse too, and I now for sure that she is a Chestnut, so Kari, we have to give YOU the credit, you were right all along!

-edit- Her mane and tail arent black though are they? Because then she would be a bay

. See, this horse stuff is complicated

Well, it wasn't so much about me being right...it was more about me making sure i understood what the crap a roan was. ha ha. But, no her mane and tail are basically the same light reddish/brown as her coat. I called her a bay when I first saw her and he said she was actually more of a sorrel.

I think chestnut and sorrel can basically be just about the same thing, right? And, yeah, one thing I did know...was how complicated the color thing is.

**Toby's my baby** · 11-05-2005, 09:03 PM

Lol. you are so funny Kari, what would we ever do without you.

Yep, then she is a Sorrel / Chestnut, they are pretty much the same in my eyes too.

Good job Kari!

**finn's mom** · 11-05-2005, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by Toby's my baby

Lol. you are so funny Kari, what would we ever do without you.

Yep, then she is a Sorrel / Chestnut, they are pretty much the same in my eyes too.

Good job Kari!

Holy pajamas, I can finally rest my brain. Ha ha, that's my Horse Colors 101 lesson for today.

I'm glad I can make you laugh! That's a very sweet thing to say.

**Toby's my baby** · 11-05-2005, 09:23 PM

Lol, I love you Kari

**finn's mom** · 11-05-2005, 09:27 PM

Originally Posted by Toby's my baby

Lol, I love you Kari

Yay, love you, too!

**luvofallhorses** · 11-06-2005, 10:31 AM

oh my gosh, what gorgeous horses!!! Thanks for sharing them beauties with us.

**areias** · 11-06-2005, 12:43 PM

Haha, we can all finally rest.

Unless of course, you want to go over the color of my horse...that's a headache right there.

**Addie** · 11-07-2005, 09:01 PM

Well, whatever, and it doesn't necessarily mean if there is a black tail it's a bay cause i have rode a horse *Trained by a professional breeder and trainer* and she said it doesn't matter if the horse is chestnut and haas a black mane and tail, it's still chestnut, and it's only bay if it's a DARK brown

**areias** · 11-08-2005, 12:32 AM

No matter what color brown (except a buckskin or dun), if the horse has a black mane, tail, and black points (black legs fading to brown and black muzzle fading to brown) it is a bay.

**Addie** · 11-09-2005, 05:33 PM

whatever...

**finn's mom** · 11-09-2005, 09:30 PM

This site is amazing. And, wildly confusing! Ha ha, there are so many things that go into determing the colors. Wow. Anyway, I thought with the interesting little debate going on in this otherwise undebatable thread, I might just post this link. I've been reading a lot of the stuff about chestnut and sorrel (they are the same, which is kinda what I thought), and, started reading about the modifiers and all that other stuff. Just thought I'd specifically share the page about "bay", but, the other pages are interesting too if anyone wants to check them out. Cool stuff.

http://www.equinecolor.com/bay.html