The horse's wrist is her calling card. A lot is said about ravens, nests and gray horses, but red horses are also very beautiful, and the red horse deserves a separate story about itself.
For any type of such a color is characterized by uniformity of colors of legs, body, tail, and mane. This makes the red horse different from other suits. For example, red horses are often confused with nests, but the latter have black legs and other mane and tail.
Tail and mane hair can be darker than the main hair or lighter than the main hair. The main thing is that they do not have hair of other shades than the main one.
Varieties of such specimens of nature gave us a great many - from very light (cream) to black - chocolate. Experts have noticed that the lighter ones are sharper, but the darker ones are more enduring. The character of the horse is not affected by its wool. It depends only on the breed and the individual nervous system of the animal. The skin of these animals is mostly grey, although there are rare specimens with pink skin.
Eyes of red horses are mostly brown, and can also vary from amber to almost black. In rare cases, there are green and even blue eyes. The latter are characteristic of pink-skinned animals, while the former are characteristic of horses with white marks.
A red horse can be light, dark, red and just read.
Depending on the main shade, the following varieties can be distinguished:
- The red horses themselves range from gentle apricots to deep chestnut horses;
- The red ones - in their wool the main cover is diluted with reddish redish;
- Dark red horses are brownish and closer to brown horses. The wool can be light brown or burnt coffee or black chocolate. These animals have no redness;
are light:
- Bulanai - golden-sand main body with dark mane, tail, and legs in the region of the metacarpal joints. Blanes can be: light-Bulan, golden-Bulan, silver-bulan and balance in apples;
- Nightingale is close to the previous one. The main difference is that the mane and tail are lighter than the whole body;
- Isabella is not similar to the previous two, but close to them genetically. They have pink skin, blue eyes, and delicate creamy wool.
In addition to these species, red horses are colored, typical of wild ancestors. They are characterized by dark stripes all over the body and dark stripes along the ridge.
Such "wild" suits include:
- Savasana is a pale body, lighter belly, almost black legs in the lower part of the body, as well as dark mane and tail;
- Mouse - ashes, light or dark brown, torso; black or grey tail, mane, bottom of legs and backstrap;
- Fly ash - ashes with reddish flames in the groin, near the eyes and mouth, on the groats and joints of the feet;
- kauraya - reddish body and brown mane, tail, and limbs;
- playful - brown body and very light, ash mane and tail;
- Tipped legs and head can be any of the above, and the wool of the main body has a large number of "gray" hair.
Genetics
Let's say at once - the gene responsible for such coloring is available to all breeders without exception.
All suits are formed at the genetic level as a result of a complex oxidation process occurring in the chromogen.
The pigment responsible for the color we describe stands at the beginning of this complex chain. It is from this pigment that epistatic (subordinated) pigments are formed, which are responsible for the horses' bogs and nests. At the crossing of ravens and nests, it is quite possible to receive red offspring. The gray gene is the dominant one for everyone else, and it does not have epistatic dependence.
The so-called alleles are responsible for the inheritance of the suit at the genetic level. For example, the pigment eumelanin, which forms ravens, is allele E, and the pigment pheomelanin, which determines the red ones, is allele.
Characteristically, when mating parents only described by us coloring offspring always turns out the same. If one of the ancestors is a redheaded man and the other is a nest or crow, then the hair of the offspring can be any of the three listed.
The rare gene called Cremello is responsible for the Isabelle gene, Flaxen for the playful gene, and Dun for the brown gene.
Animal hair can change over time. For example, most of the horses mistakenly mistaken for white horses are early gray animals. In addition, depending on the climate and housing conditions, a red horse can turn into a nesting or even a raven horse, and - forever.
The breeds of this color
However, there are breeds for which this is a hallmark and a business card. Such breeds, for example, include the domestic Don and Budyonnovsk breeds. There are many such animals among Akhalteke's, French riding and related trotters.
In general, red horses are very beautiful. In the rays of sunlight, they look golden, which inspires many artists to create a variety of paintings and poems.