See my post # 14
And she may be grey. I will say she’s not the color of any of the (many) greys that have been born here before. I will be happier to get an outside photo. Taking one inside is misleading.
Just out of curiosity… Why does color matter?
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IME, Friesians are much more prone to having black-born foals than other breeds, but it’s not terribly uncommon elsewhere either.
Color has never mattered to me. I just have never had one this color in all the ponies we’ve bred.
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Just out of curiosity… Why does color matter?
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Because some of us care about the phenotype as it relates to the genotype of horses.
Grey, foaled chestnut.
Very cute!!
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Don’t know what color she is, but WOW is she cute! 
…and some of us (i.e., me!) care because it’s just interesting!
We’ve had several blacks - all were born silver.
Gretchen, she’s not chestnut. If anything, she’s brown (or a tan silver).
I will try today to get a picture outside if I get sun. She goes out today for the first time.
She just may end up gray, but this beginning color is more of a silver mouse color when you’re with her. No matter the end result, I LOVE her.
* She’s just been turned out and she’s definitely going to be gray I think.
From that pic, my guess is that she will be gray.
These three show the silvery or brownish color that in my experience will become black.
I’ve had a lot of black youngsters - several born mousey (including purebred Friesians born mousey) that turned black, a few that started out jet black and stayed that way. Last year, had my first gray colt - he started out jet black. At a year old, he still looks jet black unless you look very carefully - a small scattering of gray hairs.
I don’t think there is any “hard and fast” rule to birth shade versus adult shade, although generally, lighter colors go darker and generally, black starts out lighter (not just black, but black points).
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This has been my experience as well, from our own foals (one born mousy that has ended up black, one that was born jet black and turned gray) and others I’ve seen.
We often think we should have called our farm Black Mare farm… We ended up with 4 black mares that we DNA tested to confirm.
Two were born jet black, one of those can not produce chestnut.
Third mare was born silvery sheen and then turned black
Fourth mare was born brown coat that shed away to black.
The header of my website shows them all as foals www.HiddenAcresFarm.Net
