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Buckskin.

Icelandic: Moldóttur.
Description: Black mane and tail, often dark legs, a yellow dun body colour.

Hátíð from Langhúsum.
An unusually dark buckskin in wintercoat.
C: Lukka.

A rather dark buckskin foal in wintercoat.
C: Lukka.

Medium buckskin.
Þoka from Hólum.

Light buckskin (buttermilk buckskin).

A very light buckskin mare.
C: Siv Janne Johansson.

Same mare again.
C: Siv Janne Johansson.
Gnúpur, an unusually light buckskin, so light that there have even been theories that he's champagne. But his skin is not mottled like on a champagne horse, that color doesn't exist in Icelandics. But this light buckskin is of a beutiful color.
C: Lukka.

Foal color:

The foal color is much lighter on a buckskin foal than an adult buckskin. A foal that is born looking buttermilk buckskin can be a medium or dark buckskin as an adult.

A buckskin foal that will become dark buckskin later in it's life.
C: Lukka.

A buckskin foal.
C: Linda Bergström.

Some genetics:

The buckskin colour is on the C-locus. If a Ccr gene is one of the genes in the C-locus, then the horse is buckskin. Buckskins thus have a CCcr gene combination. If a horse has a CCcr combination, and is chestnut, it becomes palomino. The Ccr causes red hairs to become lighter, changes the red hairs into yellow hairs, but the CCcr gene combination does not change the colours of black hairs.

The color in different languages:

Norway: Borket, ulsblakk.
Denmark: Jordfarvet.
USA: Buckskin.
UK: Dun.
Germany: Falb.
Dutch: Valk.
Swedish: Gulbrun (bork).

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