What colors of horses exist

What colors of horses exist

Beauty created by the nature is always unique. Being improved, its forms gain a surprising variety and completeness. Colors of various animals, for example, of horses can be an example of that.

In the world there are some animals, so graceful and fine as a horse. She became both the friend of the person, and his assistant at the same time. The beautiful, strong and clever animal since the IV millennium accompanies BC the owner on hunting, in work and in art.

Four main horse colors

For a long time horses were divided into bay, black, gray and red. All derivative of these colors appeared later and made rather big modern list. These coloring of a horse color were formed in a natural environment.

Later breeders of horses by artificial selection received two main colors: black and red. Sometimes add to them also bay. Than less breed was exposed to artificial formation, especially coloring of horse skins in the subsequent generations is various. Colors of racers consist of combinations of skin color of a horse and her wool. Sometimes also feelings of a variation turn out affecting an eye. The beautiful horse of izabellovy color long time reckoned with blue eyes and a pink shade of wool as result of gene marriage, as well as all albinos in the nature. Owners of horse-breeding farms consider a duty to protect purity of breed and extremely carefully are engaged in removal of new colors, observing the main esthetic and other standards. Such horses participate in exhibitions and competitions, they are called chistokrovka and descend gene material to the subsequent generations.

Various world of horse beauty

Black call horses whose wool has a clean black color. Black in suntan is the black horse who burned out on a bright sun to shades red. Meets as well an ashy-black shade of hair of horses. It appeared as a result of crossing dun, solovy and izabellovy colors. The color has them a chestnut or dark-brown shade. Bay call a horse with wool of a brown shade of various tones on the case and black color of the lower part of legs, a mane and tail. Dark bay and korakovy horse colors differ in mix of black and brown shades of wool and brown "burn marks" near nostrils and around eyes and also in a groin. Red horses have entirely red wool. It can be from apricot to brown and dark-chestnut. The main difference of red color from bay — legs of the same shade, as a trunk. Myshasty, kaury and roan colors are also types of red breed. The gray or gray-haired horse can be a crow at the birth, but with each molt such foal becomes more and more light. Gray in buckwheat and in apple wool appeared as a kind of gray-haired horse color too. Still they are skewbald and dappled and also dun colors. Besides colors there are horse shades and blind areas — spots of wool of various flowers. They settle down standing, a forehead, around nostrils of horses. The world of beauty of horse colors presented by the nature to the person is so various that on this subject the whole scientific works are written. And it is possible to admire them infinitely long.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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