another color question

[Silver1]

I know its silly, but this horse looks purple to me, and I'm wondering if it has a name:

http://www.akhal-teke.co.uk/images/MAKSAT-main-2.jpg

[Lovemyappy]

looks grey to me, maybe lighting?

[CMR]

It probably looks purple because of your computer resolution.

[Pink's lady]

Nope, looks purple to me to - a nice shade of lilac :D

Think it's mostly to do with it's very clean coat showing the balck/blue skin underneath

[elise]

Isn't there such a thing as a blue roan? But I'd just say it was gray myself.

[julesandjoy]

Yes, there are blue roans but this doesn't look like one. This one simply looks gray.

Any color horse can gray out if they carry the gene for it.

A blue roan is a black horse who also has a roan gene. The points are all black and the body has an equal number of black/white hairs which, from a distance, makes the horse look purple. A bay roan looks silver and a red or strawberry roan looks pink (Notable strawberry roan QH whose name is Peptoboonsmal!)

I believe that roans are more or less noted for a strong upside-down "V" shape at the knees which delinates the solid hair on the legs and the white-mixtured hair of the upper legs and body. The horse in this pic is simply graying out - no distinct "V". sylvia

Edited to add -- you can go to dreamhorse.com and do an advanced search for roans, specify picture ads only.

[ambatt]

It is flea-bitten grey, if you look closely you can see the bay/chestnut marks. Horses that carry the grey gene are born the colour they would have been born if they were not grey carriers, i.e. chestnut, bay, black. The lightening effect of the gene as the horse greys out means the horse goes colour genes. I have seen some greying out Arabs that have been definitely pink!

Some Andalusian horse are a purplish-grey where the coat is called Mulberry, however it lightens with age as with other greys.

Edited to add: the only lavender coat colouration is Lavender Foal Syndrome found in Arabs, however these foals do not survive as it is a lethal genetic condition that is poorly understood.

[Trewsers]

Ambatt, does that mean my Storm would have been born bay or black? She's a fleabitten grey:) How strange, I can't imagine her being any other colour than what she is now.:)

[chev]

If the horse in the pic was classic roan (so blue roan) the head would be black or dark brown, not grey.

This is a very clean grey that's probably been bathed with something to add that blue shade (we used to add blue to the water when we bathed greys for showing!) coupled with odd colour reproduction - I have to say there's nothing purple or lilac about it on my screen!

All greys are born base colour - there are a few that are born grey but usually they are bay, black, chestnut, or palomino, or dun or whatever colour they are genetically before they start to go grey. Grey then starts to add black and white hair to teh coat, and finally replaces all original colour with grey or white hair. Even the ones that are born grey are genetically black or chestnut, with whatever other modifiers they have in there. Grey is basically a 'colour replacing gene' - that replaces the original (or genetic) colour of the horse with grey until the original colour is no longer visible, or visible only in the freckles seen on fleabitten greys.

[shaiarabians]

Its definately a grey

below is an imported qh to australia a blue roan stallion

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/shaiarabs1/blu1done.jpg

liesl

[ambatt]

Ambatt, does that mean my Storm would have been born bay or black? She's a fleabitten grey:) How strange, I can't imagine her being any other colour than what she is now.:)

Bay, black or chestnut although I think fleabitten greys are usually bay or chestnut, at least the 'ticking' is.Out of two fleabitten Arabs I had one was more bay and the other much redder and presumably chestnut(which would fit in with their back breeding.)