Silverbay

Icelandic: Jarpvindóttur (sometimes called rauđvindóttur, which is the same color, just a wrong definition, as the base color can not be chestnut (rauđ)). Description: The horse has a bay body colour and flaxen mane. The most beutiful version of silver bay. Pá from Laugarvatn Dark silver bay. Kvistur from Leysingjastöđum. The silver bay color can be difficult to distinguish from flaxen chestnut, especially flaxen liver chestnut. But a silver bay has dark legs and fetlocks. A silver bay yearling Š-Marled The reason why Icelandic people call this caller mistakenly rauđvindótt, and why it seems that silver bay is so much more uncommon than silver dapple. A silver bay usually looks like this horse, and is difficult to distinguish from a chesnut with a flaxen mane. The difference is the black feet, they are black because the base color is bay. In very rare cases it happens that a mare in this color is taken to a black stallion, and to everyone's surprice, a silver dapple foal is born. Š-LUKKA A beutiful silver bay competing in dressage Š-Britt Ingrid H. Grimnes Sometimes it is very hard to see that the horse is silver. This horse a bay base color and a mane that looks sunfaded, but is in fact very dark silver. It can be hard to know for sure if he is silver or not, exept by looking well at his pedigree and his offspring. This is Thyrnirós from Tunguhlíð, an old (and out of shape now) broodmare, and the mother of the silver bay here above. She is obviously buckskin, but bucksking often have light manes. Her grandchildren revealed her silver dapple base color, because her son had silver dapple offspring with non-silver dapple carrying mares. ©-LUKKA Foal color: It is always easy to differ between a silver dapple and other colors on the very first day. After that it becomes difficult, untill the foal has shed it's foal coat. If the inner edge of the eyelids on the newborn foal is pink it is a chestnut or other red based color (and the foal is not silver dapple). Reminds of a red haired human. If the inner edge of the eyelids on the newborn foal is black (that is, the foal is all ready wearing make up) it is a black base coat, so the foal is a silver dapple! So: look at the newborn foal: 1) light grey beige with same or lighter mane/tail and make up on = black silver dapple 2) reddish color with lighter mane darker tips of ears greyish legs and make up on = bay silver dapple 3) reddish color with same or lighter mane and in need of make up (pink skin closest to the eye) = chestnut Silver dapple foals also have striped hooves but that is not a sign to guarantee on since since markings can interfere. Some genetics: The silver colour is on the Z-locus. You need one dominant gene Z which changes a black body colour into a chocolate-brown, and black mane and tail into a flaxen mane and tail, or silver-grey mane and tail. The color in different languages: USA: Silverbay Dutch: Zilverappelbruin Swedish: Silverbrun In Europe they are usually called by the Icelandic name Vindótt. BACK TO SILVER HORSES

Icelandic: Jarpvindóttur (sometimes called rauđvindóttur, which is the same color, just a wrong definition, as the base color can not be chestnut (rauđ)).
Description: The horse has a bay body colour and flaxen mane.
The most beutiful version of silver bay. Pá from Laugarvatn

Dark silver bay. Kvistur from Leysingjastöđum. The silver bay color can be difficult to distinguish from flaxen chestnut, especially flaxen liver chestnut. But a silver bay has dark legs and fetlocks.

A silver bay yearling
Š-Marled

The reason why Icelandic people call this caller mistakenly rauđvindótt, and why it seems that silver bay is so much more uncommon than silver dapple. A silver bay usually looks like this horse, and is difficult to distinguish from a chesnut with a flaxen mane. The difference is the black feet, they are black because the base color is bay. In very rare cases it happens that a mare in this color is taken to a black stallion, and to everyone's surprice, a silver dapple foal is born.
Š-LUKKA

A beutiful silver bay competing in dressage
Š-Britt Ingrid H. Grimnes

Sometimes it is very hard to see that the horse is silver. This horse a bay base color and a mane that looks sunfaded, but is in fact very dark silver. It can be hard to know for sure if he is silver or not, exept by looking well at his pedigree and his offspring.

This is Thyrnirós from Tunguhlíð, an old (and out of shape now) broodmare, and the mother of the silver bay here above. She is obviously buckskin, but bucksking often have light manes. Her grandchildren revealed her silver dapple base color, because her son had silver dapple offspring with non-silver dapple carrying mares.
©-LUKKA

Foal color:
It is always easy to differ between a silver dapple and other colors on the very first day. After that it becomes difficult, untill the foal has shed it's foal coat. If the inner edge of the eyelids on the newborn foal is pink it is a chestnut or other red based color (and the foal is not silver dapple). Reminds of a red haired human. If the inner edge of the eyelids on the newborn foal is black (that is, the foal is all ready wearing make up) it is a black base coat, so the foal is a silver dapple!

So: look at the newborn foal:
1) light grey beige with same or lighter mane/tail and make up on = black silver dapple
2) reddish color with lighter mane darker tips of ears greyish legs and make up on = bay silver dapple
3) reddish color with same or lighter mane and in need of make up (pink skin closest to the eye) = chestnut

Silver dapple foals also have striped hooves but that is not a sign to guarantee on since since markings can interfere.

Some genetics:
The silver colour is on the Z-locus. You need one dominant gene Z which changes a black body colour into a chocolate-brown, and black mane and tail into a flaxen mane and tail, or silver-grey mane and tail.

The color in different languages:
USA: Silverbay
Dutch: Zilverappelbruin
Swedish: Silverbrun
In Europe they are usually called by the Icelandic name Vindótt.

BACK TO SILVER HORSES