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palomino with sootyfactor??? please help

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#1 ·
First picture is her wet... Icelandic Mare..
When she is dry she is a lighter palomino color with a smokey liver undercoat.
Chocolate Palomino or palomino with sootyfactor? I am confused.. thank you in advance..
 

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#2 ·
Are you sure she's a Palomino? She looks more like a chestnut to me. But I'm not really a color guru.
 
#7 ·
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't Icelandics have some funky color genes that don't show up in stock breeds like silver?

She doesn't look very palomino-y to me either, even if she was carrying sooty.

That being said, she's gorgeous, whatever her color might be.
 
#9 ·
Maybe it's just my eyes, but it looks like something is making the color....I don't know, flat? I wouldn't say pali, but I think something's going on there. Doesn't look like a plain old chestnut.
 
#11 ·
Personally, I just see chestnut, especially in that second picture. I think the third one only looks "off" because of the angle and lighting. Her eyes don't strike me as actually amber either, just a trick of the lighting going through her cornea and skewing the iris color.
 
#12 ·
Yes Icelandics carry the silver gene, she does have a amber brown eye color. Her papers say Black with golden highlights. Just spoke to a man that thought that palomino with sooty factor best described her color...she is very light with her winter coat right now. She has some Liver chestnut under coat... I really have no Idea??? if you look at my horse pictures you can view more pictures of her....
 
#20 ·
I did some research... because a lot of icy's are named for their color.. I seems that her fathers name means snow storm in icelandic ( we were thinking silver) Ugla her name means Snowy Owl.. that is all I know she was born in Iceland. I do not see red in her at all? But like I said that one picture does have some red in it..
 
#17 ·
It is entirely possible she is a chestnut with sooty. Especially with the shades of red she appears to change between.

I ask about her parents because it would narrow down our possibilities and there might be a chance it might not even be genetically possible for her to be palomino.
 
#19 ·
She looks chestnut to me. If she was palomino, I would expect the mane and tail to have a far more cream tone to them - even with sooty, they don't become so red, they tend to just look dirty.
 
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#21 ·
It may be possible she's carrying silver, but because she's red-based (every color has either a red or a black base, then other modifiers are added to change the actual color we see), we wouldn't know because silver doesn't change the color of red (ie, chestnut, palomino, cremello, red dun, etc). And guessing colors based on a name doesn't help this case very much.

And I agree with Chiilaa, after looking at your other pictures, her mane is too red to be palomino. Sooty palominos just look dirty, while your mare's mane also has pieces of dark red in it.
 
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I don't remember what modifier causes what color eyes and such, but she has amber eyes. Would silver do that? Not that we'll ever really know without genetic testing for sure, but in the interest of learning...

ETA-I was thinking that I saw dorsal stripe!

I'm thinking Red dun+ a dilute of some sort. This is a plain red dun icy-

 
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