The colors of the icelandic horse


 

Pinto:

  • All imaginable kinds of pinto (skewbald/piebald/tobiano)
  • Splashed white (overo)



    Dun:

  • Red dun (chestnut dun, red dun, palomino dun, apricot dun, yellow dun)
  • Blue dun (grullo, black dun)
  • Bay dun (yellow dun)




    Creme colors:

  • Buckskin
  • Cremello (albino)
  • Palomino (isabella)
  • Smoky black
  • Perlino








    Silver colors:

  • Silver colors (silver    dapple, and silver bay)
  • Silvery mane

    Roan:

  • Roan








    • More common colors:

  • Chestnut
  • Flaxen manes and tails
  • Bay
  • Black and light black (chocolate brown, brown/liver with red hairs in            mane).
  • Grey(dappled) which often becomes white
  • Markings and features

    Color modifiers:

  • Pangare
  • Smutty
  • Shade


    Tricky colors:

  • Tricky colors


    Colors that do not exist in the Icelandic horses:

    Champagne, rabicano roan, many of the appaloosa colors.

    Other interesting facts:

  • Icelandic names for colors translated into English
  • The frequency of colors in the Icelandic horses
  • The number of colors in the Icelandic horses

















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