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Location: New Mexico | He started out a light sorrel and now is turning like a grulla?
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| Pictures? What color were sire and dam? |
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Location: New Mexico | Pictures added. |
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Location: Duvall, WA | Liver chestnut. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | NipntuckLR - 2015-08-25 11:37 AM
Liver chestnut.
Agreed but I would wait a while, especially to see his foal coat shed out, to really clarify what color he truly is. |
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| If neither sire nor dam carry the dun gene, baby can't either. I agree, I think he is looking a liver chestnut right now.The first foal shed is very unreliable in predicting the adult shade, but IME it tends to be more reliable for black-based colors. By that I mean, the majority of chestnuts and palominos shed VERY dark the first time, conning owners into thinking they have the liver chestnut and the "chocolate palomino" horses. But the vast majority of those don't mature anywhere NEAR that dark. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | He is a chestnut. He's shedding off darker but may actually be redder next year so more sorrel again. Absolutely NOT a grulla. |
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  Champ
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | Red. |
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Location: West Texas | What color was his daddy? |
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 The One
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Location: South Georgia | Sorrel, chestnut, whatever you'd like to call it. It is the red gene. Your horse is not turning color. That is just what a sorrel looks like when they shed their baby hair. |
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Location: New Mexico | Thanks! Father was sorrel. This is my first baby to raise so I'm learning new things everyday! |
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Location: West Texas | Yep, sorrel |
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| Yep mine was that dark when she started shedding, shes now a wonderful plain chestnut. She does have a very dark mane and tail though. Its actually very pretty :) |
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 The Color Specialist
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Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | With 2 red parents, red is the ONLY color option on the foal. Red bred to red will give you a red foal 100% of the time! |
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| As was already said red to red will only produce red ee + ee always equals ee because that's all the parents have to pass on. Also what your seeing with the dark first foal shed is very typical the first foal shed is normally the darkest. |
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Benefit BB
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Location: Kansas/Oklahoma | chestnut |
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