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Examples of chestnut horses.

Icelandic: Rauður.

Description: Red body colour and mane.

Medium chestnut with flaxen mane and two small socks.
Hróður from Refsstöðum.
C: Ragnar Eiríksson.

A chestnut in tölt.
C: Britt Ingrid Grimnes.

Liver chestnut with flaxen mane.
Fína from Þorbjargarstöðum
C: Lukka.

An adorable chestnut.
Thorri from Ysti-Mór
C: Lukka.

Dark liver chestnut (sótrauður)
C: Lukka.

Foal color:

A chestnut foal has a chestnut body but lighter (mealy) feet, tail, muzzle and under the tail.

Chestnut with blaze.
The feet and tail will become darker when the foal grows older.
C: Lukka.

C: Lukka.

C: Lukka.

C: Lukka.

Some genetics:

The chestnut colour is on the E-locus. A recessive gene E changes all black colour on the horse into red, so the horse becomes chestnut. All chestnut horses thus have the ee-gene combination, they are homozygous chestnut. Two black horses can thus have a chestnut foal, but two chestnut horses can never have a black foal.

The colour in different languages:

Norway: Lyserod, rod, morkerod, fuks.
Denmark: Lyserod, rod, morkerod, fuks.
USA: Chestnut, sorrel, liver chestnut.
UK: Chestnut, liver chestnut.
Germany: Hellfuchs, fuchs, dunkel fuchs.
Dutch: Vois.
Swedish: Fux.

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