Are horses scared of certain colours?

Answer 1

Not Necessarily. Depending on what the object/thing is, the could or could not be afraid of it. A horse will most likely be afraid of a plastic bag and dangly objects like that in which make noises or move around crazily in the wind. A horse will not be afraid of many white things just because it is white. Also, horses are partially color blind towards some colors.

Answer 2

horses do not like bright colours like red, yellow, blue etc. but they don't mind dark colours like black, brown, rust ect.

My daughter's Science project for school was to see if horses prefer a certain color apple. We used Red, Green & Yellow apples. We cut the apples in half and placed them on a cardboard box with the peel facing up so you could see the color. We walked the horses up to the box 3 different times , each time the apples would be in a different order by color. 2 out 3 times , each horse chose the Green apple . Yellow coming in 2nd place. We had one horse that went for a red apple 1 out of the 3 times. We used 3 geldings, 3 mares and 3 ponies that we have. Mabey your's would differ, but our seem to prefer Green. Not sure if its a difference in the smell of apples or if its the color in general.

Answer 3

One of the strange things about horses is that they come in so many different colours, but the colour of a horse doesn't actually affect it's personality, though people tend to prefer certain colours of horses.

For example, imagine there are 3 people and a pen full of horses and there is one horse of every horse colour you can think of. All three people don't know anything about the horses that are in the pen, except for what they can see, and have never seen or heard of them before this point, but are asked to pick out there favourite. Person #1 might like the bay the best just because of the colour. They don't even need to know what that horse is like or it's personality to know that they like it just because it's bay. Person #2 might pick out the black because they have made an informed decision about what breed that horse is and its conformation. They think that it would be a horse with good bloodlines and would do well in competitions or for pleasure riding. Person #3 could like the gray because they knew a good horse that was gray in colour so they figure that this gray is the same. As you can see, Person #2 did not judge the black horse based on its colour, but instead on what they thought its bloodlines were. Not everyone will judge a horse by its colour, but people like Person #1 and #3 will.

Even in athletic competitions or horse shows, the colour of a horse can affect people's perspective of that horse. An example is paints or other horse's that have colours that aren't solid. They are usually looked down on in horse competitions or shows, even by judges! People think that solid coloured horses (like palominos, bays, chestnuts, blacks, grays, or buckskins) are better than horses with patches or 2 different colours, even though they are equally good. It's very silly and can sometimes make it difficult for people with paints or piebalds to do well in shows. Fortunately, more and more people are coming to realize that the colour of the horse doesn't matter.

Different horse breeds come in different colours. Thoroughbred's are usually chestnut, black, or gray. Other horse breeds also have common occurring colours.

I think the colour of the horse is not actually important. What is important though, is the horse's personality. As the old saying goes: A good horse is never a bad colour.

Answer 4

It is very unusual and rare to find a horse that actually cares about color. To most horses, color holds no significance what-so-ever. It has nothing to do with life or death and that is all that really matters to horses. I have never personally seen a horse that cared about color. Others say otherwise.

I think that horses can have a favorite color. For example, a horse named Striker loves the color purple.

Answer 5

Horses see in muted colors and tones, they see whatever colors are visible to them all the time, it is unlikely that a horse will be afraid of a certain color unless it has never encountered it before.

Answer 6

one of my horses is a light chesnut Anglo Arab blonde main tail with light brown fur and a white strip almost a blaze and i have a dappled brown thoroughbred

Answer 7

In the wild a light colored horse will be more noticable at night alerting predators to them. They are more likely to survive if they blend into the dark better.