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| I have a sorrel filly that just turned 1 on April 2nd. Her mom is grey and her dad is black. I just started to notice as she sheds out more that she is getting white hairs in her flanks. Small patches now, but she has a lot more shedding to do. Could she turn grey this late in the game? She has some silver in her mane, but her flanks is the only area for white hairs right now. Does any one have photos of their greys that started out as sorrel?
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Idahome | Is there a possibility of a rabicano gene somewhere? I have two full bro/sis sorrels that have some roaning in their flanks. Each year they shed out they have a little more. On their dam's side there were a few horses that carried the rabicano gene. |
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  That's White "Man" to You
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| A friend of mine has one that started to look like a roan at age 3, now at age 12 he finally looks like a grey. |
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 Always Off Topic
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Location: ND | could take years.... |
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| I meant to put that in the original post. No roans or rabicanos anywhere in her pedigree. Just grey...
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 The Bird Lady
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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | I have a yearling that was born sorrel and is turning gray. There was gray at the base of her tail when she was just a few months old, then it showed up in her mane. Now she has gray in her flanks. I imagine in a year or two she will be a rose gray and then gray to a white just like her dam. |
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Location: Deep South | dhdqhllc - 2014-04-15 2:53 PM
could take years....
Agreed. I've seen them start to turn grey as 2-3 year olds, then continue getting lighter for the rest of their life. |
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Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | Our colt we r running is turning grey at 2 Y O |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | I'd say she's graying. |
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 Hummer's Hero
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Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | I have on that was born bright red sorrel with no white, then shed off the color of black coffee (almost black but withe a red hue to her). Didn't show any grey hairs until she was 2, and then only a few around her face, girth, flank and tail head. As a 3 and 4 year old she lost the red hue and turned black (not genetically black) and began greying around her face/behind her ears, and under her mane, and in her girth area. Many people thought she was a blue roan.
She's slowly greyed, and is now 9. Still very dark for her age, but last couple of years she's gotten big grey dapples in her darker areas. Face is lighter every year, legs have stayed very dark tonthis point. I get tons of compliments on her. |
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 Ms. Manners
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Location: Oklahoma | Any white hairs coming out on her face, around her eyes? Sounds rabicano, and it may very well be in her pedigree - just hidden by grey. Do you know what color her skin was when she was born? If it was the usual purple/pink color then she is sorrel. If she was born with dark skin, like you see on a black, bay or brown, then she is going grey. Can always send hairs in for a color test too . . . |
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Elite Veteran
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| Nothing on her face yet. Some silver hairs in her mane. Have a baby pic from the day she was born, but can't resize right now. I think her skin is dark. |
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Expert
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| Pictured as a baby than as a 3 year old. |
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Expert
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| Nevermind, it won't let me post pictures or edit my reply...... |
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Elite Veteran
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| Can you send pics to my email? [email protected]
I am very anxious to see |
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