Icelandic: Leirljós
Description: Yellow colour both on mane and body.
An unusually dark palomino, looking almost like medium chestnut with flaxen mane and tail. Palominos always have a light mane and tail. Bjarmi from Ármótum
A dark palomino.
A medium palomino.
Víkingur from Tumabrekku.
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Svalur from Svaðastöðum, in winter-snow and winter coat, looking rather white.
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Svalur again, now in "summercostume", looking more yellowish, and the blaze can be seen now.
This shade is the most common shade in Icelandic palominos.
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The common shade of palomino.
Dagur from Langhúsum.
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A very light palomino.
Smella from Hverhólum.
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Foal color:
The foal color is a very light palomino color, even white, but in most cases with brown eyes.
A newborn palomino foal, after a chestnut mother and palomino stallion. Hrímfaxi frá Højgaard.
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Some genetics:
The palomino colour is a Ccr gene on the C-locus. A palomino horse has ee on the locus for chestnut, which means that the horse is chestnut. A palomino horse also has CCcr in the C-locus, which changes all red hairs into yellow hairs, making the chestnut a palomino. You can not have a palomino with CcrCcr gene-combination in the C-locus, a horse with that combination becomes Cremello (albino).
The color in different languages:
Norway: Gul, gulblakk
Denmark: Isabella
USA: Palomino, Isabella
UK: Palomini, Isabella
Germany: Isabell, Palomino
Dutch: Isabel
Swedish: Isabell
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