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Bay, brown or red dun?

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#1 · (Edited)
What color do you think she is? Father is buckskin. Mother is bay dun.





Here she was as a baby with her mom.





Not sure if she is a red dun or bay dun. She seems to have quite a bit of red in her mane.
 
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I really didn't think she was a brown dun, but was hoping more for a bay dun over a red dun. Guess we will see this fall.

Thanks LR for the compliment!!
 
#8 ·
Wouldn't she have to be either a buckskin, palomino or smoky black if her daddy is a buckskin? As for dun I'm not an expert...is it just a modifier like silver or is it like the creme gene and grey where it is determinant?
Love learning about this stuff there is so much to learn!
 
#9 ·
This breeding produced at least one bay dun and one bay. Waiting to see what the foal turns into.

What happened to her legs?
The breeder said she must have gotten tangled into some fence wire.
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#10 ·
Ok... New pics. Still think red dun?






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#12 ·
Depends. I noticed her left hind leg is showing some swelling. So gonna see what the breeder says about it.
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Most bay horses are born without black points. They start shedding in gradually, but often aren't completely black until the horse is two.
 
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She tangled with some wire a few weeks ago and her leg is healing up.
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Ps. I was wrong. Father was a grulla. Not buckskin.
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#24 ·
Another vote for dunskin...but, jeez louise - that hock! :shock: Did the breeder even treat it when it happened...or since? (didn't look like it in the earlier pics). I would think long and hard before purchasing her. The hock is not an area you want to just let go...and all that swelling makes me think there's infection going on and/or scar tissue developing. This can interfere with future soundness and performance. A shame, because she's a very pretty girl.

Might want to have a vet look her over.
 
#25 ·
I vote bay dun. Unless her sire happens to be a smoky grulla, which wouldn't be known without testing (or if he has sired a dilute foal out of a nondilute mare), she couldn't be a dunskin. Bay duns are often mistaken for buckskins (or vice versa. I had several campers over this summer call Abby a dun).
 
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