what roan?

[skewpie]

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q144/skewpie/mypictures0001.jpg

this cob has black mane and tail black and white roan mix body hair and brown and black mix head and legs..brown ears strange but gorgeous...she is in foal to black overa

[chev]

She looks like she's a wild bay roan. Wild bays have reduced pigment on the legs and often have a sort of salt & pepper mane and tail. If she does have black pigment (have to say on my screen it looks like red) she's bay based; if the pigment in mane, tail and legs is in fact dark brown she'd probably be liver chestnut roan.

You have a 50% chance of a roan foal, and 50% chance of overo pattern.

[skewpie]

thanks chev ,she does have a few brown hairs in her tail n mane tho predominantly black ..never heard the term wild bay before.. she does however have the temperament of an angel...vastly important ,thanks

[chev]

Looking at the pic in daylight and on my good screen I'd have to say chestnut roan. The tail has nowhere near enough black to be bay.

[skewpie]

thats a surprise i had a real good look at her today and the mix of tail hair is small amount white a lot more brown than i thought and the same mix of def black I do know ive never seen either horse or pic of that colour mix before..is it that uncommon

[chev]

It's fairly common in Weshies to have odd mane and tail colours. Nobody's entirely certain of the genes that control that particularly. This is one of our youngsters - the bottom half of her tail is white, the top half a strange greyish with light and dark hairs in it.

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

This one is also chestnut - yet this shot looks like it could be bay. Same pony as previous pic.

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

Same pony again - you can see how dark her coat goes and look at that white in her tail now!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/bronyfelin-ponies/CNV00010.jpg

Different pony now - but her mane looks black, and she's chestnut.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/bronyfelin-ponies/lilicanter2.jpg

And again, doing an impression of a bay...

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

Gives you an idea of teh variation in mane and tail pigmentation in chestnuts!

[skewpie]

mm fascinating ive been trying to get my scanner working as i have pic of her as foal i just found in which she is most def bright chestnut! so odd where all the black came from,her mum in the background looks dun!!!!

[chev]

It won't be black - not true black pigment. But some red horses (chestnuts) have an awful lot of pigment in the hair shaft, which can (and do) look black to the naked eye.

[josiex]

As Soon As I Looked I Would Say Strawberry Roan, Because To Me ..


It Looks Pink :D