Dun ShadesCHESTNUT + DUN: This is called a red dun, and some shades are sometimes called "apricot dun" or "peach dun". The red body color is slightly diluted, and the dun marks are a dark red (as the genotype is ee, there is no black pigment, so dun instead creates red stripe/marks). BAY + DUN: This creates a bay dun, also called a 'yellow dun' or sometimes 'zebra dun'. The body color is usually diluted to a yellow color, although sometimes the body remains very red. This is the most common dun. The dun marks are black. BLACK + DUN: This is called Grullo/a depending on horse's sex ('a' is female'); it is also called black dun, blue dun, slate grullo, silver grullo, silver dun, or lobo dun. This is often considered the rarest shade of dun. The black coat is diluted to a mousy-gray, but the coat can be silver-smoky, bluish, or sometimes a mousy-brown. BROWN + DUN: Called "Mouse dun", or sometimes "olive grullo", "muddy grullo", or "wolf dun". The body is a muddy-tan or brown color, not as yellow as a bay dun and not as silver as a grullo. Besides the base colors, dun can act in conjunction with other dilutes and patterns. There are dunalinos (palomino + dun) dunskins (buckskin + dun), and dun cremellos and perlinos (perhaps they could be called dunellos and derlinos?)... the list goes on. Dun, like almost every other modifying gene, can show up on any colored horse, not just base colors. You will find more information under "Composite Dilutes". |