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To gray or not to gray... that is the question.

accphotography May 29, 2009 February 22, 2011

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Which foals are gray and which foals are not? 1: [img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/accphotography/GrayOrNot/3.jpg[/…] 2: [img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/accphotography/GrayOrNot/8.jpg[/…] 3: [img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/accphotography/GrayOrNot/6.jpg[/…] 4: [img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/accphotography/GrayOrNot/7.jpg[/…] 5: [img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/accphotography/GrayOrNot/4.jpg[/…] 6: [img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/accphotography/GrayOrNot/2.jpg[/…] 7: [img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/accphotography/GrayOrNot/1.jpg[/…] 8: [img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/accphotography/GrayOrNot/5.jpg[/…] FWIW NONE are Friesian or Friesian cross. Also none are drafts.

accphotography Fri, 05/29/2009 - 20:24

I don't know that I would call it a trick. I'm not *trying* to trick anyone. But, that being said, I DO know which are gray and which are not. I actually made this up for another forum where some people were convinced they could tell a gray foal from a non gray foal (bay/black only) MOST of the time and insisted that any foal with black legs at birth would be gray. So no, it's not a trick, but yes, the goal was to show how difficult it can be to tell.

I think I'll post the results... Sunday. Unless I get almost everyone before that.

PamelaTX Fri, 05/29/2009 - 23:48

[color=#8000BF][b]1, 2, & 5 seem to maybe have the "gray" goggles & maybe 8 (I'm on the fence about that one)...hard to tell...would need better pics.

3 & 7 are possible, but not counting on it.

4 really on the fence as thats not a great pic so hard to tell.

6 I'm gonna say no, BUT....

(now watch them all be GRAY!!! :laugh1 )[/b]

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Heidi Sat, 05/30/2009 - 00:37

[quote="accphotography"]They are not all gray. :D
Heidi feel free to make a second draft. :laugh1[/quote]
No, I don't think I will...because those choices were made with the limited information I have: [i]gray foals are born dark and saturated with the color their body will lose to graying hairs as they age.[/i] If I am to learn, I'll need to learn and not guess, by realizing which of my choices were incorrect.
I'll wait. Not very patiently, mind you. But I'll wait.

Heather Sat, 05/30/2009 - 17:10

[quote="accphotography"]I don't know that I would call it a trick. I'm not *trying* to trick anyone. But, that being said, I DO know which are gray and which are not. I actually made this up for another forum where some people were convinced they could tell a gray foal from a non gray foal (bay/black only) MOST of the time and insisted that any foal with black legs at birth would be gray. So no, it's not a trick, but yes, the goal was to show how difficult it can be to tell.

I think I'll post the results... Sunday. Unless I get almost everyone before that.[/quote]

Oh heck no , you cannot tell on all colts, we had a bay colt born once that we could not tell at all for a lonnnnnngggggg time. Its a gamble .

accphotography Sun, 05/31/2009 - 14:55

Ok, ok. :D

1 (NOT gray):
[img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/…]

2 (GRAY):
[img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/…]

3 (NOT gray):
[img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/…]

4 (GRAY):
[img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/…]

5 (GRAY):
[img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/…]

6 (GRAY):
[img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/…]

7 (NOT gray):
[img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/…]

8 (NOT gray):
[img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/…]

I'm debating if I should give a prize for most correct. :rofl: