Gray horses

English: All gray horses are born with a darker-colored coat that gradually gets lighter as the horse ages. Horses born with intermixed black and white hairs that do not get progressively lighter with age are Blue Roans. Horses with a solid gray colored coat from birth, that has no intermixed white hairs, and does not lighten with age are blue duns or grullos. (en:grullo)

Deutsch: Pferde die tatsächlich grau sind, sind gewöhnlich Mausfalben

Fohlen, Foals

English: Foals are born in every posseible color, for example bay, chestnut or black, and lighten as they age

Deutsch: Schimmel können je nach genetischer Grundlage in jeder Farbe geboren werden (Braune, Rappen, Füchse, Isabellen, Schecken) und werden mit der Zeit weiß.

Foals which don't show signs of greying out (yet)

At least 50% of these foals are genetically greys themselves and will grey out with time.

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Foals which have started to gray out

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  White or light rings around the eyes are a classical sign of turning grey
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Graying, Ausschimmeln

English: Gray horses are dark when young and lighten as they age. Most are fully white or flea-bitten by an average age of 10 or 12, though some horses gray faster or slower than this, and some never turn properly gray or white. Some breeds and lines have exceptionally fast graying.

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  This young horse is just beginning to turn gray
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  This horse appears to be a yearling or two-year old, and it just beginning to gray.
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  This is a horse that, from the pinkish tint to its coat and black mane, was probably born a bay and is now graying. It is still fairly young, probably no more than five or six years old.
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  Body is a light steel gray; it's impossible to tell the base colour by now. Legs, mane and tail remain dark gray.
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  This young Lipizzan will eventually become completely white. The horse at least four years old, but probably less than 10 years old.
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  The mane and tail often are the last parts to go gray

Apfelschimmel, dappled gray

Deutsch: Apfelschimmel. Pferde mit dieser Zeichnung werden meist im Laufe ihres Lebens völlig weiß oder zu Fliegenschimmeln.

English: dappled gray, Horses that develop a dapple gray pattern will eventually become completely white or fleabitten

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Fliegenschimmel, Fleabitten gray

Deutsch: Fliegenschimmel. Diese Zeichnung bleibt öfters bis zum Ende des Lebens erhalten.

English: Fleabitten Gray. A horse that has completely changed its base coat will either be pure white or "flea-bitten" gray.

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  English: A classic fleabitten gray
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  English: This is a fleabitten gray. It is not possible to tell by looking what color it was as a foal. All gray horses retain black skin under their white hair coat.
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  English: Another fleabitten gray. All grays retain black skin under their white hair coat. It is not possible to tell the original foal color of a gray horse once is it completely white or fleabitten gray

  Deutsch: die braune Farbe der Punkte zeigt, daß das Pferd genetisch ein Brauner oder Fuchs mit Schimmelgen ist.

Nearly white Grays, Fast weiße Schimmel

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  Camargue (horse)
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