Buckskin

[No_Angel]

How do you know if a horse is buckskin?

[Emerald_city]

sorry not sure how you 'know' my friend had a QH x mare and it was buckskin but had it on the passport so no help im afraid.

[No_Angel]

my fillys dam is supposed to be buckskin, i always thought she was bay.

[Sexy Sietske]

A buckskin looks very much like a dun. I believe, correct me if im wrong, that buckskin is a bay horse with cream gene. There body colour will be more flat than that of dun in that its colour will be the same top to toe, apart from the black points, mane and tail. They may have a 'false' dorsal stripe which is a shade darker than the coat where as dun horses have a black/dark dorsal stripe. Duns also have darker colouring on the faces and can have zebra stripes on the legs. So basically a buckskin is a pale bay, if im correct that is :p

[MelanieD]

Buckskins usually have 'blonde' bits in their mane and tail which bays don't have. A lot of people pull the mane and tail taking the all the lighter bits out though so can't be sure the horse definitley is bay rather than buckskin if they aren't there.

[No_Angel]

This horse is also an appaloosa which makes identifying the base coat even more difficult.

[Sexy Sietske]

Do you have a picture and the parents/grandparents colours, also sibling colours would help.

[chev]

Buckskins are bay horses that carry the cream gene. Mane, tail and legs remain black, but the bay body is diluted to a golden shade (not the flat, washed-out colour of dun; a dun will also usually have some dilution on the legs too, not the pitch black of buckskin).

This mare is buckskin;

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/bronyfelin-ponies/Walk.jpg

(No comments on crap rider please! :o )

Appaloosa patterns won't hide it, unless you have a varnish roan. Varnish (Appaloosa) roan gradually washes all colour off the body.

[No_Angel]

Chev I will have to send you a picture of her, her ad says she is buckskin, but I thought she was a snowflake with a bay base coat.

[chev]

The absolute definite way to say for sure (some sooty buckskins - dark bay + cream - can be difficult to identify for example) is to test for the colour. A test that comes back positive for black, bay (agouti) and cream means you have an indisputable buckskin. Negative for any of those three means it's not bucksin. :)

[michelle c]

is my mare buck skin?

[chev]

Yes, she is :)

[No_Angel]

ah brill:D

So what colour combination could you get from a chestnut and a buckskin?

My filly was chestnut when I first saw her but now seems to be lightening, she now looks more palomino.

[ambatt]

29.17 % buckskin
29.17 % bay
16.67 % palomino
16.67 % chestnut
4.17 % smoky black
4,17 % black

Those are your foal possibilities...

[No_Angel]

ah so it was only a 16% chance that she came out her colour, ah, shes special:D

[teabiscuit]

29.17 % buckskin
29.17 % bay
16.67 % palomino
16.67 % chestnut
4.17 % smoky black
4,17 % black

Those are your foal possibilities...

how do you work that out :confused:

[Squeaker Toy]

Good question...
And they're so exact, too. Decimals and everything. Do you have a particular formula?
-Squeaker Toy

[evilgiraffe]

You sit there with a piece of paper and the possible gene combinations and off you go. It's not so hard. You've just got to look at all the possible different combinations, which complicates things. If there were only one or two genes controlling colour it would be much more simple and easier to work out - with lots of genes having an input it's not surprising that you get percentages to several decimal places. :)

[Frances]

My horse is Duckskin Bum!

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e302/Frances144/124-2426_IMG_2.jpg