Chestnut
Chestnut
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Chestnut is one of the two foundation colors, the other being black. Ponies are either black or chestnut with other genes modifying them. Chestnut is recessive to black so a pony must have two copies of chestnut in order to be chestnut and no copy of the black gene. Two chestnut ponies cannot produce anything but chestnut. A chestnut and a black can produce a bay when the chestnut is carrying the agouti gene. There are many shades of chestnut from very light to very dark. Extremely dark sooty chestnuts are sometimes called "black chestnut". Chestnut or shades of it is called sorrel by some.
Flaxen modifies chestnut's manes and tails to make them a cream or white color. It is not yet known how flaxen is inherited.
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Copyright 2008
