Are Halflingers palomino or flaxen chestnut? Some people say they’re palomino, but then some would be cremelllo and some with no cream gene.
What kind of dun are Fjords and what is their base color?
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Haflingers are ALWAYS flaxen chestnut! Not too sure about fjords.
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Fjords have dun - that’s why they have that dark stripe in the middle of their mane, that makes it possible to do those really cool cutouts 
They have a large range of dun shades, some of them called confusing things like “gray dun” which isn’t gray at all, it’s the black dun, but they look gray. They have cream in addition do that, so there are more shades that are dilutions of the dun colors.
Haffies are chestnut. Most are just so heavily flaxen and pangare (that mealy muzzle and the very light underbelly area) that they can look palomino to some.
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Re: HAFlingers – what Gary and JB said. 
I think Fjords are always some shade of dun (I didn’t know about the black dun ones before, JB – cool! )
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Haffies are all chestnut, generally with flaxen and pangare. Many of them will test AA at agouti (which has no affect on a red base) and they also can carry silver (which doesn’t express on a red base) so they can be interesting when cross breeding.
Fjords have dun and generally also pretty heavy pangare, and come in a range of shades that does include cream dilutes-- they can be bay dun, black dun (grulla), red dun, buckskin dun, palomino dun, or double cream dun (though I believe double cream is frowned upon in the breed). They do use their own terminology for colors, which I can’t come up with in full off the top of my head.
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The color terminology used for Fjords is brown dun, red dun, white dun, grey dun and yellow dun.
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I had time to look it up. Bay dun is called brown dun (“brunblakk”), chestnut dun is called red dun (“rodblakk”), black dun/grulla is called mouse dun or grey (“graa”), buckskin dun is called white dun or uls dun (“ulsblakk”), palomino dun is called yellow dun (“gulblakk”). They refer to double dilutes as “kvit” in Norwegian, which translates as white, though it’s important to note that they are cremello/perlino/smoky cream and not actually white.
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Um… Not always flaxen, but yes always chestnut.
What JB said basically.
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