Silver Bays - If you have one...can you share a clipped photo?

[wingnut]

My youngest weaningling, Missy, is what we're calling a silver bay. I don't know if it's the fact that it's winter or what, but I'm spending inordinate amounts of time wondering what she might look like when all that weanling/winter wooly fuzz is gone. When I part her hair, the hair from the skin and up about 1/2" is solid gray. Her mane becomes more silvery every day, while her tail remains a mix of flaxen and red bay(?). And her face is getting darker all the time.

This is a photo from October:

She's also the one in my avatar.

So, if you have someone in your herd with similar colors...or started out with similar coloring, would you post a clipped or summer photo?

Thanks!

 

[CheyAut]

One of my silver bays clipped:

Summer coat

Winter coat

Another clipped

Summer

Winter

And a third clipped

Summer

Winter

 

[normajeanbaker]

Mine is a bit darker then the one you have pictured, but here is my silver bay clipped. She is pretty light for the first few clippings, but gets darker and darker as the summer/fall go on.

 

[Dona]

BEAUTIFUL Silver Bays here!

Usually, when you clip a Silver Bay's "winter" coat.....they will look like a Silver Dapple. That is because Bays are a black based horse, and under that red winter coat, the hair is very dark gray or black next to the skin. The Silver gene affects black....making the undercoat look like a Silver Dapple when the outer red color is clipped off.

Now, after the summer hair grows in....it is red again. (no dark undercoat) So when Silver Bays are clipped in summer, they will keep their reddish shade, sometimes with dapples.

 

[angelspeeper]

First I must apologize for not having pictures. But I have two that look alike unshaven...just like the original poster's horse. One horse's papers list him as a silver bay, the other one list him as a sorrel. Both are red with a flaxen mane when unshaven. But you really see the difference when you shave them.

My sorrel shaves out red with a flaxen mane everytime. But my silver bay is quite another story. I only have owned him since spring of last year, and he was already starting to shed out. At that time he was still red. When we clipped him for a show, He clipped out red, but where the are usually black points...his were silver.

Now this winter we had to clip his head because his briddle got too tight, and he clipped out grey. But mytrainer said that is usual with bays and silver bays. He said in Spring he will again clip out red.

Just by looking, I would say if you see any silver where a bay would usually have black points then your horse is a silver bay, if no silver then its a sorrel with a flaxen mane/tail.

 

[wingnut]

Wow!! You guys really came through! Thank you!! I can't wait to show my husband and kids the *potential* of what could be under that winter/weanling fuzz!

Thanks!!

 

[WhiteTailsMinis]

Joy - my little boy looks the same color as yours in winter woolies - and we've always referred to him as Silver Bay. BUT after these responses I'm starting to second guess?

Here's our little guy we think (or thought) is silver bay (clipped from last July as a weanling) -

Full of fur now he looks like this (taken couple weeks ago) - he's on the FAR RIGHT:

 

[Dona]

Joy - my little boy looks the same color as yours in winter woolies - and we've always referred to him as Silver Bay. BUT after these responses I'm starting to second guess?Here's our little guy we think (or thought) is silver bay (clipped from last July as a weanling) -

Full of fur now he looks like this (taken couple weeks ago) - he's on the FAR RIGHT:

I do think your little guy is a Silver Bay. His lower legs are a light silvery color & he is showing faint dappling. He is young yet, and until a Silver Bay matures, they usually don't show the "subtle" darker shading on their legs. There are so many different "Shades" of Bays....and the silver gene can affect them all a bit differently. His coloring should intensify as he ages.

 

[wingnut]

Marlene! Good grief! That's Missy's twin!! At least in that last photo!

 

[Loess Hills]

[SIZE=10pt]We had a little silver bay filly, Loess Hills Aces Silk N Sassy, who as a weanling looked light palomino. As she matured, her lower legs were darker, and she also had the striped hooves associated with the silver dilution gene. Genetically we knew she was a silver bay because her dam carried the silver dilution gene, and sire was homozygous black.[/SIZE]

Here she is at 3 months:

As a yearling:

And in winter coat as a yearling:

http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv255/l...ni/SilkyJan.jpg

 

[Lucky-C-Acres-Minis]

My silver bay mare probably won't help since she's actually a silver bay ROAN, she's really much redder in color than I'm used to seeing on silver bays:

I haven't actually had to clip her, just let her shed out last year, but here is a photo of her at Little Kings a couple years ago clipped out:

The very first foal born her was a silver bay filly:

When clipped she was silver dapple like Cheyaut's first horse

 

[WhiteTailsMinis]

Joy - my little boy looks the same color as yours in winter woolies - and we've always referred to him as Silver Bay. BUT after these responses I'm starting to second guess?Here's our little guy we think (or thought) is silver bay (clipped from last July as a weanling) -

Full of fur now he looks like this (taken couple weeks ago) - he's on the FAR RIGHT:

I do think your little guy is a Silver Bay. His lower legs are a light silvery color & he is showing faint dappling. He is young yet, and until a Silver Bay matures, they usually don't show the "subtle" darker shading on their legs. There are so many different "Shades" of Bays....and the silver gene can affect them all a bit differently. His coloring should intensify as he ages.

Thanks Dona - appreciate that info - so we're on track then. I'll be anxious to see him clipped this year as a yearling.

 

[wpsellwood]

We have 5 out of 12 silver bays heres a couple pictures

 

[WhiteTailsMinis]

What beautiful horses everyone! Just beautful!

 

[BM Miniatures]

Here is my Silver bay

 

[wingnut]

Rose: Thanks for mentioning the striped hooves. I didn't realize that was considered one of the traits of a silver gene.

 

[Loess Hills]

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Rose: Thanks for mentioning the striped hooves. I didn't realize that was considered one of the traits of a silver gene.

I notice in your pictures the darker muzzle and dark around the eyes and ears, and I'm certain when she sheds out this summer her lower legs will be darker, too. Defenitely one of the indicators of bay.....................and the silver dilution gene just dilutes that color down so it can appear reddish or sorrel, but we know it's really not!

 

[wingnut]

[SIZE=10pt][/SIZE]

Rose: Thanks for mentioning the striped hooves. I didn't realize that was considered one of the traits of a silver gene.

I notice in your pictures the darker muzzle and dark around the eyes and ears, and I'm certain when she sheds out this summer her lower legs will be darker, too. Defenitely one of the indicators of bay.....................and the silver dilution gene just dilutes that color down so it can appear reddish or sorrel, but we know it's really not!

Oh geeze....now I'm really going to be beside myself waiting!

 

[Jill]

Her color is similar to our gelding, Sunny. Clipped and fuzzy shots so you can see:

[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

 

[DreamStoneRanch]

My youngest weaningling, Missy, is what we're calling a silver bay. I don't know if it's the fact that it's winter or what, but I'm spending inordinate amounts of time wondering what she might look like when all that weanling/winter wooly fuzz is gone. When I part her hair, the hair from the skin and up about 1/2" is solid gray. Her mane becomes more silvery every day, while her tail remains a mix of flaxen and red bay(?). And her face is getting darker all the time.
This is a photo from October:

She's also the one in my avatar.

So, if you have someone in your herd with similar colors...or started out with similar coloring, would you post a clipped or summer photo?

Thanks!