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Location: Georgia | Runninbay - 2017-03-09 8:16 AM
I've always been attracted to horses with big "snips" lol. Cant explain why. That being said, I wouldn't pay a dollar more for a horse just because of a white marking. I honestly prefer solid legs.
Wanted to add....my 2014 filly is a little chromed up. I have had 2 people offer me over what I think she is worth, I assume because of her unique markings.
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Location: Georgia | My mother will literally not buy or even consider a horse if it has 3 or 4 white legs. She lives by that old wise tale about white feet. It gets on my ever lasting nerve, I myself love some chrome. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Runninbay - 2017-03-09 7:24 AM
Runninbay - 2017-03-09 8:16 AM
I've always been attracted to horses with big "snips" lol. Cant explain why. That being said, I wouldn't pay a dollar more for a horse just because of a white marking. I honestly prefer solid legs.
See to me this is not chrome but rabicano roaning (not true roan all the way around). But many people will call this horse a red roan. Genetically its not though. |
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Georgia Peach
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Location: Georgia | oija - 2017-03-09 10:07 AM Runninbay - 2017-03-09 7:24 AM Runninbay - 2017-03-09 8:16 AM
I've always been attracted to horses with big "snips" lol. Cant explain why. That being said, I wouldn't pay a dollar more for a horse just because of a white marking. I honestly prefer solid legs.
See to me this is not chrome but rabicano roaning (not true roan all the way around ). But many people will call this horse a red roan. Genetically its not though.
She would be considered a rabicano, even though she has to be registered as a sorrel because it is not a recognized coat pattern. I just consider anything with extra white markings as "chrome" :)
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| If you're buying a prospect for resale color definitely does make a difference in my experience. But if your buying a prospect for you to hang on to it doesn't really matter. I think color catches the attention of some buyers then if your horse is solid enough it'll finish the sale. That said I don't think most people will buy one just based on color or that color adds value but it can make buyers slow down a little when scrolling through sale ads. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Runninbay - 2017-03-09 7:24 AM Runninbay - 2017-03-09 8:16 AM
I've always been attracted to horses with big "snips" lol. Cant explain why. That being said, I wouldn't pay a dollar more for a horse just because of a white marking. I honestly prefer solid legs.
That bay has the cutest face, looks like he/she put his/her face into a can of white paint, lol..
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Location: Northern Ontario | Well, I bought a loud tobiano paint mare because she was the one that fit my conformation and temperatment standards(not much nice horses here) Anyway, I prefer a plain bay, Brown or black horse....and roans.... they are my favorite. but a good horse is a good horse(even if its a paint lol) |
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Location: Where you need a paddle... Oregon! | I prefer no chrome/very little to no white. |
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| wyoming barrel racer - 2017-03-08 11:25 PM
Pesonally no, but I do love hind socks and a strip down the face. But if you had a plain jane sorrel colt and a sorrel colt with chrome, most would pay more for the chrome. That is my experience selling horses.
I agree with this also. I personally love chrome but it wouldn't make or break a sale for me. I will look at horses no matter what color they are. However, I know enough friends with breeding ops that it makes a difference. The plain sorrel never gets as much attention as the one with the chrome or the buckskin. I know of a super nice gelding with not a speck of white but built very nice who hasn't sold but all of his siblings have because they were flashier. |
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| IMO "chrome", or white marking draw your attention to a horse. If you're at a sale and see three sorrels, and one has socks and a blaze, most people are automatically drawn to that one. Now I don't think it adds much "Value" to the more well bred horses as some have mentioned. I just bought a well bred project colt and he happens to have a nice blaze, and back socks, and front half socks, I've already had people tell me he's "flashy". I think "chrome", just makes them have an extra bit of eye appeal, which some people are willing to pay more for. |
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Location: Louisiana | I honestly don't care about colors, although I can appreciate a pretty horse. But yes, many people definitely care and because people care, it will affect price.
My husband has it in his mind that he wants a buckskin colt. Have you shopped for one of those?
Does white matter? His 4yo was given to him in exchange for riding a horse for 30 days. Because the guy didn't like his 4 white stockings and blaze. He doesn't look like a plain "ranch horse" lol. Bred to cut, smart, quiet, good solid feet, but too much white so practically given away. He's worth a whole lot more than what he charges to ride a horse for 30 days haha.
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| grew up on a big black ranch gelding with a blaze and 4 white stockings, people would actually rent him from us for the Tucson rodeo parade, he carried the flag many years. These screenshots of a video don't do him justice, he had silver hairs all throughout his tail too,
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Location: Way up North | I have a really chromed out red dun mare, high whites on all 4 with lots of white on her face and splashes under her jaw. People either think she's gorgeous or horrid, not much inbetween. Her full brother is a solid bay dun with a tiny bit of white on his face. He is very pretty but doesn't get the attention the mare does so I do think chrome makes a difference just in the fact it gets people's attention and more eyeballs looking at a horse usually makes a faster sale. |
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Location: Windoming | I had a sorrel with flaxen mane and tail with four white stockings and a blaze face that was a looker. A guy actually stopped me along the highway where I was riding him and asked me how much money it took to buy a horse like him. Too bad I wasn't smart enough to sell him on the spot, as it turned out.......... |
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| While I wouldn't buy or not buy based on color, it is SURE an added plus to have a pretty one  |
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Location: Northwest | Silly Filly - 2017-03-10 8:05 AM
I had a sorrel with flaxen mane and tail with four white stockings and a blaze face that was a looker. A guy actually stopped me along the highway where I was riding him and asked me how much money it took to buy a horse like him. Too bad I wasn't smart enough to sell him on the spot, as it turned out..........
I had an older friend tell me that you never turn down a buyer because the horse will always get hurt immediately afterwards. She told me that about an hour before I turned down a buyer for a mare of mine. Week later she was hurt and lame. |
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| I think it depends on the horses color. I'd definitely prefer a buckskin with no white socks or stockings
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Location: Arkansas | gunner07 - 2017-03-10 9:33 AM
grew up on a big black ranch gelding with a blaze and 4 white stockings, people would actually rent him from us for the Tucson rodeo parade, he carried the flag many years. These screenshots of a video don't do him justice, he had silver hairs all throughout his tail too,
There is just something about a black horse to me. And when you throw in some white, well I just drool!!! I love your boy! |
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Location: Texas | I have my own personal preferences on colors and markings but markings or lack thereof don't change the price to me.
If I had two foals that were equal on all levels except for color, like palomino vs sorrel, the palomino would be priced a little higher than the sorrel. But if I had to foals that were equal on all levels except for markings, I wouldn't price them differently. |
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Location: Phoenix | Less white for me! I could see it going both ways. |
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