Learn Your Horse Colors
Horse coloring is confusing and often misunderstood. In my research I found many color charts that offer misleading information.
Essentially horse color boils down to genetics, whether horses are specifically bred for certain colors or they have been left to naturally reproduce.
Your Handy Horse Color Guide
In order to help eliminate this confusion, I’ve added a new page dedicated to all of the horse colors of the world.
There you will find thumbnails (click them to get the larger version) of each different horse color along with a brief description.
For more in-depth information I have posted a series of articles dedicated to defining the colors more specifically.
For quick access, here is the list
Black Base
Chestnut Base
Cream Dilutions
Dun dilutions
Champagne dilutions
Silver dilutions
Mealy Modifier
Sooty Modifier
Bay Modifier
Grey Modifier
Roan white pattern
Paint / Pinto white pattern
Appaloosa white pattern
And don’t forget Unexplained markings and patterns
Learn more about your horses genetics through their coloring, and look at pictures of all of the different horse colors of the world.
