So one of my clients had me do a body clip on her mare…a bay holsteiner approximately 20 years old. Turns out she is a grey-ish blue underneath. Boy was I surprised! Almost like a silver! Take a look!!
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Has anyone seen this before? Why is it this color? So neat!
My bays have always been that color when we shave them. Totally normal. 
Weird. Mine have always been a very light brown color, but I have never seen this almost silver color shown. Interesting.
My dark bay Morgan was that color underneath. I liked how he looked clipped and it kind of felt like I had two different horses… The silver/grey one and the bay!
Bays, blacks, buckskins, brown horses and others, can have various hues of “mousey grey” undercoat. Chestnuts tend to have a more orange hue in their undercoats.
Coat color will start to come back as the coat grows in, and it may take a week or two for the mousiness to start to look less mousey.
It will depend on the particular horse.
Grey’s will tend to stay a shade of grey when clipped.
There is no rule to it as some mahogany bays will clip and have lighter shades of mahogany undercoats.
One of my bay mares (totally average bay) turns completely grey with black spots/dapples when she’s clipped. The only brown or red left on her is her nose. As her coat comes back in it’s kind of yellowish and eventually goes back to brown. But it still surprises me every year!
My blood bay horse would do that on the second clipping.
It can depend when in the coat cycle you clip them! My bay horse goes very dark when he has his full winter coat, so like Peggy said, around the second clip. Also if you clip very short the skin shows through, which is black.
yup. My bays often clip out this color
Looks like a normal body clipped bay color to me!!
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One of my bay mares (totally average bay) turns completely grey with black spots/dapples when she’s clipped. The only brown or red left on her is her nose. As her coat comes back in it’s kind of yellowish and eventually goes back to brown. But it still surprises me every year![/QUOTE]
I call that “Reverse Doberman”
Beats the hell out of the great pumpkin!
Perfectly normal clipped coat color.
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It can depend when in the coat cycle you clip them! My bay horse goes very dark when he has his full winter coat, so like Peggy said, around the second clip. Also if you clip very short the skin shows through, which is black.[/QUOTE]The worst was the year I managed to time clipping so the interface between the light brown and gray on the fur was just about where the clippers were cutting. Every single mistake was emphasized in color.
Looks normal to me. I had a bay that would clip to steel gray every year.
One of my favorite things about the early weeks of WEF is getting to see all the International GP horses with their “clipped” coats.
That’s the reason I don’t clip my gelding if I can avoid it. I prefer dark bay/mahogany as he bleaches to mouse. 
My seal brown TB clipped out dull, mousy grey every year. Used to sprinkle him with sparkles to make him shine under the lights at indoors.
Don’t feel bad because people are telling you it’s normal, OP. It’s still really cool, and not something I’ve seen either. I’ve seen similar, but this is cool, steel grey, not icky-sounding mousy grey.
Is this because bay horses are really black horses that have agouti that pushes the black to the points in the fur?
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My seal brown TB clipped out dull, mousy grey every year. Used to sprinkle him with sparkles to make him shine under the lights at indoors.[/QUOTE]
This is new to me! I love new stuff. What kind of sparkles?
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