What color is a bay horse?
Bay is a hair coat color of horses, characterized by a brown body color with a black mane, tail, ear edges, and lower legs. Bay is one of the most common coat colors in many horse breeds.
The pigment in a bay horse's coat, regardless of shade, is rich and fully saturated. This makes bays particularly lustrous in the sun if properly cared for. Some bay horses exhibit dappling, which is caused by textured, concentric rings within the coat. Dapples on a bay horse suggest good condition and care, though many well-cared for horses never dapple. The tendency to dapple may also be, to some extent, genetic.
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Samuel Anhalt
Bays are brown and black not brown. The black areas of a bay horse's hair coat are called "black points", and without them, a horse cannot be considered a bay horse.
Louella Wilson
Poorly optioned question. As pointed out by many.
JohnnyRoulette
It's reddish brown, isn’t it? Granted, that’s brown
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Horsetrivia, and lower legs and ear tips
l cgosselin
Chris Braid, brown is all brown, with no black marks.
l cgosselin
L Lh Adams, a “red” horse is a chestnut, brown without the the black is called a brown horse.
L Lh Adams
A brown Horse is a Chestnut.
earlepg
Robert Hampson, Compliments of Carol.
Wayne Linburg
Charles Lyon, You must get all the horse questions right then !
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Darlene Davidson, 👍
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Todd Cates, 👍😊
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Kim Hernandez, that's what Carol said in the first sentence! 😊👍
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Sue Hardie, yes, you are right!😊👍
Sue Hardie
Andrew King, He mentioned that in first paragraph which several comments have failed to notice.
Sue Hardie
Kim Hernandez, he did mention in the first paragraph about black mane, tail and ear edging.
jack patti go
I just missed it all around!
Vanessa Peters
Yep. Bays are brown horse with black points.