>We also need to ask ourselves if grey was a sought after genetic color.
>Horses bred in the desert would do best if they blended in - a dark color
>could be spotted from a distance more easily perhaps. Or at some point
>was grey considered a "royal" color?
No
>I've observed that in excessive heat & humidity conditions most
>chestnut/bays seem to suffer more than the greys. Dark colors attract
>more bugs! True--those annoying flies that burrow in to the chest,
>ticks, gnats--all seem to dive for the darker horses in the field first.
>Chestnuts are especially prone to sunburn (they are redheads after all).
My grays tend to suffer the most with the flies- the bays I have are
generally in very good shape during the summer! I don't believe chestnuts
are any more prone to sunburn than any other horse. I have an old pony who
is chestnut, and he never seem to have a problem of any kind- I have lots
of blazes on my horses, and that's is the only place I have problems with-
they get their summer sunburn then they do fine- but I think it is more of
a photosensitivity problem with the new lush grass coming in than a skin
thing.
Gwen
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