Favorite horse color

This is a fun one as I really like horse colors. I’m fascinated by the genetics and the way the hairs create different colors. I used to have a book that explained by diagram how the hairs were structured to create different colors.  I can’t find it so here’s a website with cool microscope images of horse hairs of different colors.

Palomino hair under microscope

Before I get into my favorites, a quick note about colors I don’t like. My least favorite color is chestnut. I know you’re supposed to buy horses based on a ability and not color, but I just cannot own a chestnut. It took me a long time to find a mule that wasn’t chestnut.

Also, in case you were – quite logically given that I own two of them – thinking that I like palominos, you’d be wrong. It’s really not one of my favorite colors; I’ve just happened in to having two of them. I love the summer coat, but the winter coat is this terrible off-white sadness that is usually covered in mud as well.

Dijon in the summer – golden and gorgeous

Washed out  in the winter

Nilla is technically a pangare palomino. Pangare is described here. You can see her white belly in this gif.

Too fat to flip over

 Nilla also has a lot of roaning which is especially noticeable around the head.

Roaning (and candy canes)

Winter

Summer

Boots with the fur…