Saturday, April 30, 2016

Wanna bet?

Thanks for th kind comments about my poor head. I will get better. :)

On another note, wanna bet on what color my horse is? I still don't have the DNA results back, and I'm stumped.

Here's his lineage, with color in parentheses:

Note his mom is listed as a red dun but there's no dun in her background. I think those buckskins are actually dun. Here she is:
http://www.dreamsweptfarm.com/horses/q-z/wyndi/wyndipic.html

Oh my gosh I just found a baby pic of Duncan!
HE'S SO CUTE I'M GONNA DIE!

Here he is sometime later, with a different name and missing part of his ear:

They're not glamour shots, but here are pics from today:





 Notice how the tips of the hairs are dark, then they're goldish, and the summer coat is dark. And he's filthy. :)

He has been on a good daily vitamin mineral supplement for 6 months, so he shouldn't be deficient in copper, but he could be, and he definitely could have been when he grew his winter coat.

Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things, but I don't like not knowing, and since we'll know soon, it's fun to guess. What do you think? Faded black? Smokey black? Sooty dun or grulla? Really dark chestnut? Brown? I can't even commit to a guess.

Updated to add eye pics:

The lighter stripes in his eyes under his pupil are interesting.

13 comments:

Kara said...

I think he's black. Does he have brown eyes? Or are they a bit lighter than a "normal" horse?

Andrea -Mustang Saga said...

They're kind of an interesting color, with a lighter stripe. I'll add a pic to the post.

Andrea -Mustang Saga said...

They're kind of an interesting color, with a lighter stripe. I'll add a pic to the post.

megpie12 said...

Black chestnut maybe?

Jenna Blumer said...

I have no idea what color he could be, but it's a beautiful one! He really has such unique coloring.

Fiona said...

Seal Brown...going gray?

T.L. Merrybard said...

Squeee! A foal pic! How lovely that you found one!

Andrea -Mustang Saga said...

I think that's a definite possibility.

Andrea -Mustang Saga said...

Thanks! I think he's pretty cool myself. I saw another curly this week that was being called black, but was this color. I wonder if colors look different on curly horses?

Andrea -Mustang Saga said...

I think he's too old to go grey, unless he's older than I think and it's a bit of old man grey. But he could be seal brown.

Andrea -Mustang Saga said...

I love it! Of course they're all cute, but I think he's especially wonderful. :)

Andrea -Mustang Saga said...

I love it! Of course they're all cute, but I think he's especially wonderful. :)

Monsters Groom said...

Curly horse are always kinda greasy. We found dawn dish soap and ivory soap to be the best for bathing. They will always grow a Curley winter coat and shed it out completely to be bare skinned in the summer. He may also lose his all his mane and tail each year. I bet he is a smoky grulla