Buckskin

Icelandic: Moldóttur Description: Black mane and tail, often dark legs, a yellow dun body colour Hátíđ from Langhúsum. An unusually dark buckskin in wintercoat. Š-LUKKA A rather dark buckskin foal in wintercoat. Molda frá Tunguhliđ owned by Catharina Hedsäter. Š-LUKKA. Medium buckskin. Ţoka from Hólum Light buckskin (buttermilk buckskin). A very light buckskin mare Š-Siv Janne Johansson. Same mare again 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. Š-Dawn Shaw Foal color: The foal color is often 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. Š-Chantal Jonkergouw A dark buckskin foal. Š-Linda Bergström Some genetics: Some genetics: The buckskin colour is on the C-locus. If a Ccr gene is one of the genes in the C-locus, and the horse is bay (that is, has black base color with a bay color modifier) then the horse is buckskin. Buckskins thus have a CCcr gene combination. The Ccr causes red hairs to become lighter, changes the red hairs into yellow hairs, but the CCcr gene combination hardly changes at all the color of black hairs. So, to put it very simply, a buckskin is a bay horse with a Ccr gene The color in different languages: Norway: Borket, ulsblakk Denmark: Jordfarvet USA: Buckskin. UK: Dun Germany: Falb Dutch: Valk Swedish: Gulbrun (bork) BACK TO COLORS

Icelandic: Moldóttur
Description: Black mane and tail, often dark legs, a yellow dun body colour
Hátíđ from Langhúsum. An unusually dark buckskin in wintercoat.
Š-LUKKA

A rather dark buckskin foal in wintercoat. Molda frá Tunguhliđ owned by Catharina Hedsäter.
Š-LUKKA.

Medium buckskin. Ţoka from Hólum

Light buckskin (buttermilk buckskin).

A very light buckskin mare
Š-Siv Janne Johansson.

Same mare again

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.
Š-Dawn Shaw

Foal color:
The foal color is often 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.
Š-Chantal Jonkergouw

A dark buckskin foal.
Š-Linda Bergström

Some genetics:
Some genetics: The buckskin colour is on the C-locus. If a Ccr gene is one of the genes in the C-locus, and the horse is bay (that is, has black base color with a bay color modifier) then the horse is buckskin. Buckskins thus have a CCcr gene combination. The Ccr causes red hairs to become lighter, changes the red hairs into yellow hairs, but the CCcr gene combination hardly changes at all the color of black hairs. So, to put it very simply, a buckskin is a bay horse with a Ccr gene

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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