Metallic Sheen..what causes it?

Health, the cream gene, and possibly the satin gene.

we can cut out creme...she's just a plain ol' chestnut

Are you SURE!!?? *faints* I'd have sworn she was palomino based on that photo.

my flaxen horse looked like that too.

she is a haflinger..so yup..chestnut.

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Interesting. Lace's shine looks like that too and there's no cream... but she's a weirdo.

I think it is caused by either clear end shafts to the hair or sometimes a crystal in there - like Mica. Like the Bengal cat hairs seen in this clip -

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I know some of you have seen this before - so don't yawn !!! :D

[quote="accphotography"]Health, the cream gene, and possibly the satin gene.[/quote]

Wait, satin?? Fill me in!

I've had satin mice before....but never really heard of it in horses...lol

but yeah..she does kind of remind me of my darker orange satin mice now that I think of it, maybe a bit more of a metallic glint...but she's also a larger animal with larger hair shafts..

oh...and ACC--you aren't the only person who calls her palomino....i've had tons of people say that to me...and I always have a giggle because she isn't even one of the lighter chestnut haffys out there. She is near liver in the winter...then lightens and dapples in the summer...love the dapples :D I don't get them on my SSH.....that darn mostly white body...lol

It's the structure of the hair shaft. Where you see the metallic sheen the hairs have a smaller cortex compared to the medulla, than in regular hair.
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Actually I find the lighter Haffies even less pally looking. It's her rich, GOLD look that got me. That and the WHITE looking mane.

Sprite has similarly structed hair to Tekes (as shown by first link).
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This one is to show the difference between red and white-
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Images are courtesy of Hoofpick.

How about a photo of Sprite to go with that for any :newbie s? :D

I realllllly need to get some of Lace's hair to Hoofpick.

Ahh ha ha! I'd have to be an old one!!!

Most recent vid:
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Oh wow! It probably shows better in the video anyway.

I should get a vid of Lace somehow.

nah- she's just a turd to photo!

[quote="accphotography"]Actually I find the lighter Haffies even less pally looking. It's her rich, GOLD look that got me. That and the WHITE looking mane.[/quote]

I actually had one haffy breeder tell me what lines he thought she had in her pedigree based on color, build and height....and he was almost spot on...he had one well known one added in that she didn't have..LOL. I do love her color though, and I'm not one that likes chestnuts much. I think the flaxen mane/tail help....lol

FF - I have often mentioned on here how my "grade" QH mare Maya shines like no horse I'd ever seen that WASN'T a champaign (she isn't), but Sprite is an almost carbon copy of her. When I watched that video my mouth dropped open (although hubby swears I rarely close it :twisted: ). Matt and Hank will be doing hooves this weekend and working with the Goldie (her pali filly) so I will charge up my reg. digital camera for pixs then.

In that vid she wasn't brushed...lol I'll have to do a before and after of her as she's always shiny.

Yeah- looking forward to seeing a vid of Maya- perhaps send off some hairs to Hoofpick too if you're interested?

BTW The first photo of the coat could def be mistaken for a Pally- I was thinking it could go either way (Chestnut or) The second photo however clearly shows (to me) a light Chestnut.

wow lovley sheen! my bucky is as shiney as any horses ive ever seen, hes an orange looking buckskin but ive never seen sheen like your mare on a non cream horse! lovley :)

[quote="TheRedHayflinger"] I do love her color though, and I'm not one that likes chestnuts much. I think the flaxen mane/tail help....lol[/quote]

The sheen is hard to measure or course, but below is another pasture fed, pasture dirty flaxen (sabino) chestnut that displays what I believe to be a very bright gloss. Could there be a relation to the flaxen? :?

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I know a stallion with a gloss like that..

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I think that threw the flaxen idea out. What about other colors other than chestnut?

I thought that's just how healthy red horses shine? :?
The only ones I've had that cant get that at any time are kind of smudged looking from sooty. But the rest all seem to have the ability to shimmer particularly in a new summer coat before they get sweaty.

I don't know... he may be flaxen. Can't tell.

This doesn't even really show her shimmer the way it really looked when this was taken:
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I know of 3 other examples: Lewisfield Sun God, Ralvon Pilgrim - he was actually described as being iridescent, and a grey stallion posted some time ago in a rescue situation

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I think it's just random. Maggie is a flaxen chestnut and she doesn't shine like that although she does dapple.

My shiny ones right now are Ginny (wild bay), Fly (liver chestnut), and oddly Phoebe (grey). Isabelle usually shines quite a bit but she's been through a lot this year,

wow the grey is beautiful colour!!

I agree I generally don't care for grays but if I could get one that color I might change my mind.