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What colour? Dun? Silver? Both?

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#1 ·
I wonder what my new icelandic yearlings color is..
The breed comes in any colour, so that's no help :P

The auktion paper said ''silver yellow'', I don't know how right they were concidering the circumstanses, but silver isn't unlikely (pretty common in the breed as far as I've seen) and as far as I know, dun is also a regular icelndic colour? So it's not impossible that they've mixed, right?

I read this:
Her color is the result of a black base coat diluted by both a dun dilute gene, and a silver dapple dilute gene. *The silver dapple gene diluted the mane and tail to silver, but the dorsal stripe and other dun markings appear to remain relatively undiluted on this mare. The body has been diluted by both the silver dapple gene and the dun gene, causing a pale body coat.
Dun Central Station - Dun Plus Other Dilutions
The pictures is of silver and dun on a black base.. I wonder if they could come on a brown/dark base and if that could be Sólons colour?

Or is he just a light red dun?

Well.. see for yourselves :) What do you think?

He has a light, thin stripe down the back and some leg markings, but fairly light legs, and the center of the mane and tail are dark. It's not very visible on the tail tho since it has so much light/white on it.







I guess I get insecure about if its just a red dun because he's so light, and the dark in the mane and tail doesn't look red at all. (except the tip of the tail but I suspect that's bleached by..stuff) and then the silver-thing in the papers suggests that one of his parents were silver, or something. I dunno..

The both black-silver-duns they had pictures on looks like him except gray.. http://duncentralstation.com/DunOtherD/Misty-sdgrulla.jpg this one lacks a lot of the dark in the mane.. http://duncentralstation.com/DunOtherD/HolySmoke-KMSHA.jpg but this one has more of it and it's the same type of genes, so maybe Sólon is something in between? And then brown/chestnut/red/whatever brownish colour instead of black as a base?

Am I just making stuff extra difficult? Can he be just a light red dun or some other normal colour?
 
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#35 ·
I was just wondering what they had it listed as in Icelandic. I found a list of Icelandic colors, and it has descriptions etc... in Icelandic to English. Like it said Palomino = Leirljós, Ljósa
along those lines. Nothing crazy.
 
#39 ·
When we went to look at the place she was going they all spoke English to me and if I tried to speak German they would respond in English, trying to be nice but I wanted to practice so it was kind of annoying. But I was struggling so I guess they stopped me from embarresing myself. :P
 
#46 ·
Fjord? He's a purebred icelandic horse imported from iceland :P So no, no fjord..
Fjords are dun tho in different variations..
 
#48 ·
Is he registered with Worldfengur? I do believe that the horse's colour is in that registration.

But personally I would call him "Ljósbleikur/Ljósfífilbleikur", but I did have to think for a while. He's not as red as a horse of the same colour at my stables.
I know of a book that goes through almost every icy colour, and I'll probably be going to the library that has it soon, so I can let you know if I find it in there :wink:
 
#49 ·
Rissa: yeah, with way more white :)

Sissi: He is, but he'äs registerd as ''gulbrun'' ''yellow-brown''.. and I don't think that's right at all :3 I don't have access tio it myself but others have looked for me.
 
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