Silver bays - Can I see your pictures

[PaintedMeadows]

I have a filly here out of a silver bay sire and a bay dam and I have always thought she was a very red sorrel but her mane is turning more flaxen, and her tail is lightening with a black strip down the middle. She is a pinto so her legs are white all the way up. I'll try to get some pictures on here but having issues right now. I would like to see those pictures if you have them. Thanks!!

 

[Watcheye]

My first miniature Mckeever was a silver bay.

 

[Shari]

Edda.. icelandic foal Silver Bay

Need to take current photos soon. Genetic tested to confirm Silver Bay..but she does fade.

loosing foal coat so just starting to see her charcoal lower legs

 

[PaintedMeadows]

Thank you ladies. They are both very pretty. My Rosie is very red and always has been. Her mane was really red when she was born but it is starting to turn the same color as her sire's and he is a silver brown/bay. Here he is on the left and Rosie on the right.

Her tail has a black core to it and is surrounded by the red that is turning very light and white. Her sire's tail has alot of black in it as well as silver, white, brown and cream. Levi's tail on the left and Rosie's on the right.

Here is Rosie in the summer. She is 1 1/2 years.

Do you think she is actually a silver bay? My other sorrels don't have the black in their tails. Just curious if it is worth testing her. Dam was a bay.

 

[suz]

Here is my guy before clipping - red

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/suz...cko10-01-09.jpg

and after clipping - gray

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/suz...goodclipped.jpg

 

[targetsmom]

Here is my silver bay pinto colt when he was 4 days old. Although he looked sorrel, I knew he couldn't be because his dam was homozygous for black. He was tested and carries silver - along with the LWO and gray genes from his dam, so he doesn't look like this now.

 

[barnbum]

I have a silver bay in a Rosie too. And she's a red one!

On the right....

 

[Shari]

Thank you ladies. They are both very pretty. My Rosie is very red and always has been. Her mane was really red when she was born but it is starting to turn the same color as her sire's and he is a silver brown/bay. Here he is on the left and Rosie on the right.

Her tail has a black core to it and is surrounded by the red that is turning very light and white. Her sire's tail has alot of black in it as well as silver, white, brown and cream. Levi's tail on the left and Rosie's on the right.

Here is Rosie in the summer. She is 1 1/2 years.

Do you think she is actually a silver bay? My other sorrels don't have the black in their tails. Just curious if it is worth testing her. Dam was a bay.

She honestly looks like a pretty chestnut to me.

Maggie, my mini, is a Medium Liver Chestnut and she has all kinds of mix colors in her mane and tail, including black. Her daughter Theia is a bright Chestnut Tobinao Sabino and because of this she has white in her tail.

Another way to tell if you have a Silver Bay.. is when they are born the skin around their eyes are black and if they are chestnut, they are always a shade of pink.

I have had a number of both Chestnuts and Silver Bays born on my place over the years.

Barnbum, but you can see in your mare.. she has charcoal lower legs.

Best thing to do if anyone is in doubt is have your mare tested paintedmeadows.

 

[barnbum]

Barnbum, but you can see in your mare.. she has charcoal lower legs.

That's part of being silver bay, right?

 

[normajeanbaker]

Here is my silver bay mare.

Clipped:

Winter coat:

 

[Shari]

Barnbum, but you can see in your mare.. she has charcoal lower legs.

That's part of being silver bay, right?

Yes

 

[Kendra]

Okay, so he's not an especially "red" silver bay, but he's a beautiful colour, and I wanted to play!!

 

[MBennettp]

I have two, the first is Dawn:

The second is our stallion Joe who is a siver bay dun

 

[eagles ring farm]

Here is our Silver Bay mare "Bee"

winter

summer

Our Silver Bay mare "Missy"

Missy's Silver Bay Filly "Revi"

 

[Devon]

Martins Mardi Gras Eligent Man aka "Eli" my Silver Bay ASPC/AMHR(Hardship) Gelding

He has small silver hairs in his normal coat and Silver Mane and Tail

 

[lcwallis]

Here's Redrock Shimmer Lites

 

[twister]

Here is my mare OnTheBit Silk Lilly

Winter Coat

Summer Coat (clipped)

 

[Lucky-C-Acres-Minis]

Here's my silver bay roan mare:

And this is her 2008 colt, he's registered as a chestnut, but a few have raised the question as to him possibly being silver bay.. His sire is Parmela's little black stud Buckeroo Merlin..

 

[Jill]

Here's a beautiful, many time National Champion, umpteen time Grand Champion and Halter Hall of Fame boy that Erica, her cousin, Clem, and myself all share and love:

[SIZE=12pt]Tibb’s Sundowner (HOF), a/k/a Sunny[/SIZE]
1998 AMHR Silver Bay Dun Gelding

Halter Hall of Fame / 3x National Champion / 6x Reserve National Champion / 20x Grand Champion

Grandson of Boones Little Andy -- He's a hoofed teddy bear

 

[wingnut]

Here's a pic of our newest weanling filly, Missy. I posted a color question here a couple of weeks ago and was told she is a silver bay. Her dam is black and her dad is a buckskin pinto:

This is a closeup of her mane which has a lot of silver/gray mixed with the flaxen

Here's a close up of her face where you can see the dark areas around her eyes

And I don't know if this has anything to do with being bay, but I love her striped hooves:

Like others have mentioned, she looks like she'll have charcoal legs.