Although not considered a rare coloration, roans are not nearly as common as chestnuts and bays. Roans, which come in several different hues, are about 1 in every 100 horses. The different varieties of roans are blue, black, red or strawberry. Much like the different types of grays such as rose, flea bitten, ect.
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the rainbow, there are blue roans.
There are alot of mixed color horses. Paints, pintos, appaloosas, roans, etc.
Red roan or chestnut roan is just a color it in no way affects how long a horse will live.
Yes.... There is a horse that is a red roan and it is vey red looking! Not all red roans are extremely red though!
chestnut, bay and greys. You can also get; duns, blacks, palominos, paints, roans, buckskins and loads more!
Pretty much. Palominos, buckskins, cremellos, light bays, duns, and roans could all be described as "sandy."
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No their is only red roans and blue roans, black roans and grayroans The above answer is very incorrect. Roan can appear over any base coat, including palomino, buckskin...whatever. Purple roan is used to describe a certain shade of roan - it's not an "official" color, it's rather like the terms "claybank dun" or "buttermilk buckskin". Any horse color can express in varying tones of darker or lighter from the same set of genetics, and for whatever reason, people sometimes pick out a certain shade to give a special name to.
There can be a blue roan, a bay roan, and a red roan. A roan is a horse with a regular coat colour with white hairs sprinkled without it. Red roans and bay roans are very similar in colour, but they are still different. I love roans and they truly are beautiful horses.A red roan: http://www.barrelracer.com/Dusty%20Gildner/red%20roan%20filly.jpgA bay roan: http://www.holderquarterhorses.com/marthas-six-moon-colt-3.jpgA blue roan: http://www.horsemadness.com/poco3.jpg
Two roans bred together will produce 75% roan foals. Since both these horses are chestnut all foals will be chestnut.
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