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Horse Colour Dun


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Horse Colour Dun. Until fairly recently any horse that had ‘primitive’ markings, notably a dorsal stripe along its spine, was called a dun. Their beautiful coloration is caused by a dilution gene that lightens the body color without lightening the legs, ears, mane, tail, and often the head.


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Majestic and unique, dun horses have a distinctly wild appearance. We also explain primitive markings, consider which breeds have dun, and its prevalence in those breeds. Their beautiful coloration is caused by a dilution gene that lightens the body color without lightening the legs, ears, mane, tail, and often the head.

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In order to understand the dun gene in horses, we should first look at how it is represented genetically, and then how it affects. Dun is a coat color of horses that occurs due to the presence of a dilution gene affecting both the black and red pigments. Duns aren’t a breed of their own. In order to understand the dun gene in horses, we should first look at how it is represented genetically, and then how it affects.

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