Buckskin

A bay horse that has received a dilution gene from one of it's parents, le result is a coat that varies from off white, beige, gold almost orange to very dark almost black, dark eyes and black mane and tail with often black points.

Le different shades of Buckskin :

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"Moonlight Melba" owner Mrs Reuillard

CREAM BUCKSKIN

Off white coat with a slight hint of gold in the sunlight, black point apart from socks, black and white mane and tail with the points of the ears black.

"Sapho" owner Mrs Boudet

STANDARD BUCKSKIN

Beige coat with black mane and tail black and black points, caracteristic of all Buckskin.
(can have socks).

"Mr Flashman" owner Mr Verges

STANDARD BUCKSKIN

owner Mrs Boudet

GOLDEN BUCKSKIN
Coat dark gold almost orange often difficult to tell the difference between the golden buckskin and the copper bay, apart from the red that is present in the hair of all bay horses, even the pale bay, the red is not present in the golden buckskin. A buckskin will have hints of gold or silver in sunlight wheras the bay will have hints of copper or orange..

BLACK BUCKSKIN (also known as dilute black)

    The coat is almost black, slate or rust over all the body. The dilute black is the darkest of all the buckskin shades, it is alos called smoked. In winter the coat could look like a liver chestnut, dun or brown but all these are incorrect.
   In rare cases the Ccr gene is completely hidden and the horses look black. After looking carefully at a few of these horses you should be able to tell the difference apart from a few extreme cases.
  To determine the real couleur of these horses you need to look at the breeding or a DNA test to isolate the Ccr gene.
   The diluted black is sometimes confused with the liver chestnut but looking at the very bottom of the hair we can see the smoked couleur.

owner Mrs Boudet
the same horse winter and summer.