Icelandic: Bleikur.
Description: A light yellow-redish colour both on body and mane, with a red line going over the back, from mane to tail. The middle of the tail can show some of this dark stripe, but it is usually very unclear.
Dögg from Halldórsstöđum, one of our broodmares.
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Red duns can be a bit dark, like Dögg.
This bright red dun color is called fífilbleikur.
The difference between a fífilbleikur and an ordinary bleikur is that fífilbleikur has a flaxen mane.
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A red dun showing the pale color of a light red dun very well.
Maístjarna from Sauđárkróki
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Many duns have stripes on their legs.
©-Hans Kolding
Foal color:
The foal color is quite similar on a red dun foal and on an adult red dun, only lighter on the foal, that is, the foal grows a bit darker as it grows up. Here can a very definite feature be seen, all red duns have a stripe (eel) on their back, going from their ears back through the tail. A stripe can sometimes be seen on chestnuts, but the stripe on a red dun is a bit brownish, while the stripe on chestnuts is a bit reddish. A foal from 1999 (son of Eva and Galsi from Sauđárkróki). Dögg from Halldórsstöđum, heavy with a foal.
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Some genetics: The red dun colour is on the D-locus. A dominant gene D changes a chestnut with ee-gene combintation into a red dun.
The color in different languages:
Norway: Rodblakk
Denmark: Gul med ĺl
USA: Red dun, orange dun, claybank dun, apricot dun (fífilbleikur), yellow dun
UK: Dun, red dun
Germany: Falbe
Dutch: wildkleur vos/leemvos
Swedish: Rödblack
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