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..
She is not chestnut but do see see how that 2nd picture could look that way the other pictures of her in my horse photos show her "color" better. blondish brown with brownish liver under her mane and tail.. some black in her tail..
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.
I don't know much about what colors Icelandics can be...
This horse is a sable ivory/cream champagne (aka brown with champagne and one cream dilution). She looks vaguely similar...so maybe something weird like this is going on with this little girlie.
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.
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....
Well, she still looks red-based, in which case silver is irrelevant because silver does not act on red. Do you happen to have any idea about her parents' colors?
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..
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.
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.
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.
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-
Champagne most commonly causes amber colored eyes. However, chestnut + champagne = gold champagne, which looks very similar to palomino and nothing like this mare.
This is more of how her color looks to me.. these picture are more red than she is.. Sorry still don't see the red LOL ... and I see her everyday..but you guys know more than I so I am just trying to represent her color better..
I'm sorry, but what color do you see? She certainly isn't a black-based horse. I don't mean red like human red hair that's orange, I mean like red-brown. Yes, she has some light colors in her mane and tail, but that's pretty common for chestnuts.
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