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Brown + cream

4K views 24 replies 12 participants last post by  Chiilaa 
#1 ·
So most of you know so many actually 'brown' horses are called bays, because they look like a bay horse, but have a mealy muzzle, lighter underbelly, ect. so they're actually brown.

So a Cremello can produce palomino foals from Chestnut mares, buckskin or palomino from bay/blacks.


But what about when bred to a mare that is 'bay', but actually brown? Then what happens? Usually people list what their studs can produce out of different color mares, but brown is never mentioned.
 
#2 ·
You can call it many things, but the "accepted" term is brown buckskin. Other names include smoky brown and brownskin. However, you get lots of breeders/owners who just don't get that brown is a colour, and then they get called dark buckskin or sooty buckskin.
 
#12 ·
Ah but we know that registry bodies are out of date, and resistant to change. So we, as free thinking individuals, don't bow to their lack of knowledge :-p

Also, I agree. Brown buckskin is delicious, and is almost definitely my favourite horse colour of all time. Which says something, because I like most of them a lot lol.
 
#14 ·
True, but then they probably have other colours they don't recognise. They are all so determined not to change lol. Even the Arabs, which have 5 colours and two white patterns still don't recognise brown lol.
 
#23 ·
brownskin is the one I hear the most often I think.... but brown creme is right behind it. I usually just say brown with creme myself. Now...a double creme dilute on brown? What would we call that if we want a new name for brown with creme? I think I heard someone call it smokey brown before...but that's about it. LOL

Browns with creme are one of my FAVORITE colors
 
#24 ·
Dilute brown, smoky brown, brown buckskin.... they're the most universally accepted terms that I've seen used. Depends where you live.

Double cream on brown will probably just be called smoky brown perlino and double cream on black smoky black perlino. Or they'll all just continue to be called smoky perlino. :-|
 
#25 ·
I am more inclined to use "smoky" for black dilutes, and "brown based" for brown dilutes. It's most common for black with double cream to be called smoky cream, and a single cream to be smoky black.
 
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