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Moody Chestnut mares?!?

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#1 ·
We own a chestnut mare and i have to say she is alot more fiery than any other mare i met.

And i've heard the comment from many people saying she's a moody chestnut mare even the vet said it!

I was wondering if any of you had heard this comment? and are chestnut mares really more moody when they're in season than any other colour?
 
#3 ·
I've owned 100's of mares and of every color never found color to have a thing to do with attitude. I think theres more Chestnuts that are but only because thats the most common color. The least common ones are Grullos but only because that color is the lowest in numbers.
 
#4 ·
I've heard this stereotype before as well, but I wouldn't give it any credit. Several chestnut mares I know are the quietest horses I've ever met.
 
#6 ·
My old trainer said that too! I was skeptical as well. How could colour have anything to do with it? That being said, I know a very hyper chestnut mare, but also an extremely calm one too.
 
#8 ·
This is simply like red cars go faster than blue ones... Color really has no affect on the attitude of a horse. What may play a factor is that you own a mare, they do have tendency to be more moody than geldings. It is probably just an expression used about chestnut mare, nothing more.
 
#9 ·
yeh mares are more moody than geldings but i do have two other mares (that aren't chestnut) that are really calm, but that i've met alot of other chestnut mares that are really calm too!

oh and StormyBlues your mares in foal? good luck with that! our mare's only got 3 months left...
 
#14 ·
Nah...definitely NOT true.....LOL. My chestnut Arabian mare was so sweet, I couldn't even tell when she was in heat....she was always pleasant and gentle and loved people, we used her as a lesson horse for a while too....a more sweet and un-moody horse you'll never find. Another crazy myth. LOL.
 
#16 ·
I don't know either way about the truth of chestnut mares being moody since I have met a really psycho chestnut mare and I've met super calm ones.
As to the origin of the saying, maybe it stems from people saying that redheads (humans) are more fiery tempered than all the other hair colors and since chestnut is very similar to a redheads hair color...
 
#18 ·
Lol, I'm also a dork... I have all sorts of interesting historical/mythological names I'd like to give some of my horses sometime. Like... I want to name one Cosimo de Medici, one of the first in the Medici family that practically funded the Renaissance. Another would be Grisaille, which I think looks absolutely beautiful and refers to a painting technique that uses only gray tones.

*cough* But in order that I do not drag this thread too far off topic, I had better give my take on the whole color vs temperament thing. I don't think it has much of anything to do with anything. How could it? Hair is hair, it doesn't have any influence on your brain (unless you are self-conscious because it looks like crap even though you spent forever on it, but I doubt horses care in that way). Am I making any sense? Who knows...
 
#21 ·
I have to say I have a chestnut mare, and she is the moodiest female i have ever come across in my life!! People tell me all the time 'it's a mare thing', or 'it'sa red head thing' (i'm a red head as well!!) Although I must say I've met equally as moody appys, bays, browns, paints and any colour of the rainbow... I think it would be an old wives tale, but it definately applies to me!!
 
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