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Location: Midland, TX | This is my little colt by Fiestas Gotta Gun born this afternoon!!
Will he stay sorrel or turn grey? He is a lot darker than the pics show. Anyways just curious! :)
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Looks like you got a pretty sorrel to me, unless he's got some white hairs around his eye's like his eye lashes, eye brow area, then I would think so, but as far as I can tell, sorrel. He a pretty boy  |
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Location: north dakota | I've had horses that didn't have a gray hair on their bodies till they were 2-3. |
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Location: Dubach, LA | He's so cute! Who cares if he's grey?
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Thats my thought too, who cares as long its a sweet healthy baby, and he is a little handsome fella |
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Location: In a happy place | Very pretty baby. |
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Location: Midland, TX | Oh I love him no matter what lol I'm actually in love lol but like she said I do want to get the papers right haha and I've never bred to a grey before.
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| My 3rd EYE sez he will be gray ... look at his front cannon bones and you will see they are a faded shredded red color ...
in two months when he starts shedding out around his eyes ... look for white hairs showing up in the bullseye area ..
Don't be concerned about registering him sorrel if that is what you see and then later changing to gray ...
all it takes is a new set of pictures and turning in his first set of papers .... keep the changes form you get from AQHA
when you get his first set of papers ... or wait till he is 5 months old to register and you will be 95% correct by that time.
This is the reason our nutty color DNA gurus ... are always asking what was the base color on grays so they can come
up with 10-15 colors the foal may turn out to be ... lol ... |
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | I am voting he is going to be a sorrel. He is very cute. |
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| This is what my grays usually look like and by two years old they are a loud gray color ..
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Location: Montana | Very cute baby! Congrats.  I don't know what color he'll be. I'm going with sorrel, but I've not ever had a horse bred or registered a foal and only am going by what I've read.
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| I read somewhere that they will turn gray if the skin around their eyes is dark colored? I had a sorrel filly and her skin was a pinkish color for a short time when she was born. His looks dark? I'm gonna say gray :) Very cute! |
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Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | Definitely gray. Sorrel babies that will stay "red" are born with pinkish eye rims and muzzles. (Wher e ther is NO white markings) Sorrel that will gray are born with dark skin around eyes and on muzzle like this colt has. If they are gray, they also often have lower legs that are a funky "grayish" color. |
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Location: CA | Grey. Like blacks, they're usually not born grey.
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| My gray was born buckskin and stayed that way until he was a yearling. Then for,one year more he switched between buckskin and grey. After second year he shed out as a definite grey. He was registered grey. Took pics and as long as one parent is a grey, AQHA changed the color on his papers. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | RacingQH - 2014-05-10 11:06 PM Definitely gray. Sorrel babies that will stay "red" are born with pinkish eye rims and muzzles. (Wher e ther is NO white markings) Sorrel that will gray are born with dark skin around eyes and on muzzle like this colt has. If they are gray, they also often have lower legs that are a funky "grayish" color.
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Location: Midland, TX | Thank y'all all for the answers! I was also wondering about the odd grey color on his legs and also heard that the greys are born with black feet too. It would be neat to have a grey considering all I've had is palomino of sorrel. But I love him even if he goes bald!! Haha super happy so far with FGG and this baby is so sweet and acts like he's been on this earth for years! Lol |
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| BARRELHORSE USA - 2014-05-10 8:39 PM
My 3rd EYE sez he will be gray ... look at his front cannon bones and you will see they are a faded shredded red color ...
in two months when he starts shedding out around his eyes ... look for white hairs showing up in the bullseye area ..
Don't be concerned about registering him sorrel if that is what you see and then later changing to gray ...
all it takes is a new set of pictures and turning in his first set of papers .... keep the changes form you get from AQHA
when you get his first set of papers ... or wait till he is 5 months old to register and you will be 95% correct by that time.
This is the reason our nutty color DNA gurus ... are always asking what was the base color on grays so they can come
up with 10-15 colors the foal may turn out to be ... lol ...
I would agree. You should start a poll so we can all duke it out, gray vs sorrel. Then do an update so we can know who's right. :-))) |
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