Are all chestnuts the same color, or are a liver chestnut, a light chestnut, and a light chestnut with flaxen mane 3 different colors?
Let's
take the tobiano gene as an example. Thake the color pinto (tobiano)
and add to it all the other versions of colors, so you have
black-pinto
bay-pinto
yellow
dun-pinto
etc,
and
you'll have maybe 20 different pinto colors to start with. The color
combinations
are so many.
Shall we count:
Tobiano
(15-20 combinations possible)
Overo
(15-20 combinations possible)
Yellow
dun (light, medium, dark)
Blue
dun (light, medium, dark)
Bay
dun (light, medium, dark)
Buckskin
(light, medium, dark, with or without legstripes)
Cremello/perlino/creme
black
Palomino
(light, medium, dark)
Smoky
black (light, medium, dark)
Silver
dapple (light, medium, dark and 15-20 combinations possible)
Roan
(15-20 combinations possible)
(Champagne?!?)
Chestnut
(light, medium, dark/liver)
Flaxen
chestnut (light, medium, dark chestnut color)
Bay
(light, medium, dark)
Black
Pale
black
Grey
Blazes
(black horse with blaze, chestnut horse with blaze etc...)
Snips
(-"-)
Stars
(-"-)
Sclera
(-"-)
Pangare
(-"-, light, medium, dark)
So
it all depends on what you call a color. If you only count the base
color genes,
the
colors are not very many (all the dun colors are for example caused by
the
same
gene). If you go to the other extreme and call a silver dapple blue
dun
pinto
another color than a horse that is silver dapple blue dun pinto with a
blaze,
then you can count the colors in the hundreds.
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