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Horse Color & Genetics
Colorful horses for sale, horse information, horse articles, stallions, color genetics, colorful foals, horse color, equine color genetics
Formerly ColorfulHorses.com

The Basics
Reading the following is a must... these pages will give you enough information to understand the rest of the genetics pages, plus they will tell you how the site is designed and how the colors are grouped.

Beginning Introduction to Genetics
About the Colors
Color Genes: From A (agouti) to Z (silver)

Base Colors
Black, brown, bay and chestnut are called the base colors because they make up the foundation for every other color. In actual fact, the two main colors are chestnut and black, the only two pigments existing in the horse. All other colors, including bay and brown, are created when one of these base colors has additional diluting or modifying genes.

Chestnut - Black - Bay - Seal Brown

 

Dilutes & Patterns

The Cream Gene - Palomino - Buckskin

The Duns: Grullo, Red Dun, & More

Dun Factors: Dorsal Stripe, Leg Barring, & More

Gray Horse Color

Silver Dapple (also known as Chocolate, Flax, Taffy)

Rare Colors, Markings, & Color Folklore


Bloodmarks: A Rare Marking

Bloodmarkings:
Information, Myths, History, Folklore of the marking.

Hairless Horses
View photos, Q&A, and more.

One white foot...
Superstitions about horse hoof color, and contrasting folklore about it.

 


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