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Buckskin is one copy of the cream gene on bay. Buckskin ponies must have at least one parent with the cream gene. Buckskins have black manes and tails and black legs similar to bays. Buckskins can fade in the sun, and so that their points are not jet black. Buckskin foals legs are not black until they shed the foal coat. Buckskins can also have white streaks or “frosting” in their manes and tails.

Buckskin and dun are sometimes used interchangeably or mistaken for one another, this is incorrect as they are two different colors genetically. A dorsal stripe on a buckskin does not mean that it is a dun. For more information on false duns please see Dun Central Station.


Solid buckskin in the traditional shade. Wild stallion Copper Moose, Picture by Amanda Geci.


Light shade of solid buckskin exhibiting a little frosting in her mane and tail. Wild mare, Picture by Amanda Geci.


Light shade of buckskin tobiano. Wild stallion Glacier who was originally from the Maryland herd, Picture by Amanda Geci.


Solid buckskin foal in foal coat. Wild foal from 2007, Picture by Amanda Geci.


Sooty solid buckskin. Gunner's Moon, A now deceased wild stallion, Picture by Amanda Geci.


Very light buckskin tobiano+sabino. Her legs are not black due to having four high white legs from tobiano. Honey Two, Historical example from 1980, Picture courtesy of the National Chincoteague Pony Association.

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