Icelandic: Rauður
Description: Red body colour and mane
Medium chestnut with flaxen mane and two small socks. Hróður from Refsstöðum.
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A chestnut in tölt.
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Liver chestnut with flaxen mane.
Fína from Þorbjargarstöðum
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An adorable chestnut.
Thorri from Ysti-Mór
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Dark liver chestnut (sótrauður)
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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.
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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 color in different languages:
Norway: Lyserod, rod, morkerod, fuks
Denmark: Lyserod, rod, morkerod, fuks
Germany: Hellfuchs, fuchs, dunkel fuchs
USA:Chestnut, sorrel, liver chestnut
UK: Chestnut, liver chestnut
Dutch: Vois
Swedish: Fux
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