What colors make a dun?

[candyappy]

[QUOTE=JB;6614074]
Vt - yes, dun can show on double dilutes but it might not. The darker the color of the DD the more likely the dun factor are to show.

Overo - dun on buckskin makes dunskin, with the dun often hiding in the cream but not always. Dun on palomino makes dunalino, and this can hide even more easily. I don’t believe there is a widespread term for dun on smoky black but I’ve heard smoky dun used, maybe smoky grulla. I don’t believe Ive heard a term for any dun on double dilute.

Candy - a buckskin (or bay or palomino or chestnut or…) can indeed have a dorsal stripe. It’s called counter shading and is usually pretty distinctly different fro a dun dorsal stripe in that it usually has fuzzy edges and often tapers off going into the mane/tail.[/QUOTE]

Thank You JB! I guess I have never seen one of those. The buckskins I have seen all had no dorsal stripe. Every dun I have ever seen has had one.

[vtdobes]

@JB;6614074

I don’t believe there is a widespread term for dun on smoky black but I’ve heard smoky dun used, maybe smoky grulla. I don’t believe Ive heard a term for any dun on double dilute.

I’ve heard it referred to as smoky grulla as well. In the Morgan Registry the horse would be registered as “smoky black dun”.

[JB]

[QUOTE=candyappy;6615798]
Thank You JB! I guess I have never seen one of those. The buckskins I have seen all had no dorsal stripe. Every dun I have ever seen has had one.[/QUOTE]
Here’s a buckskin QH stallion - no dun - with a nicely defined dorsal stripe that is “just” countershading in this case

@vtdobes;6615818

I’ve heard it referred to as smoky grulla as well. In the Morgan Registry the horse would be registered as “smoky black dun”.

Yep, smoky black dun certainly makes it very clear what it is