What is Seal Brown Horse? Breeds, Facts, and Color Just for my Horse


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Phenotype Seal brown is a dark variation of bay, sometimes appearing to be almost black. However, areas around the muzzle, eye, flanks and other soft parts of the body are lighter coloured, often more yellowish. The back and crest of the neck are (nearly) black, and these dark hairs move downwards until they meet the lighter areas.


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There is a proposed allele that darkens a bay coat to seal brown, and the sooty gene is linked to other forms of dark bay. Genetically, a chestnut horse is a horse without the ability to produce black pigment, while a black horse does not have dominant agouti to restrict their black pigment to points. The MC1R (extension) either binds alpha-MSH.


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Seal Brown & Wild Agouti Brown (sometimes called Seal Brown), designated as 'At', is a mutation of the original Agouti allele. This differs from Agouti in that, instead of restricting or "erasing" the black colour pigment from the whole of the horse's body, it only affects the 'soft' parts - the nose, armpit, groin, point of the rump, sometimes the belly.


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The brown mutation is denoted A t and is recessive to the wild type mutation (A). The order of dominance for the known agouti alleles is A, A t ,a. This means, that as long as the horse is allowed to express black pigment, (ie not ee) a horse with a genotype of AA t will be bay based while a horse that is A t A t or A t a will be brown based.


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There was a time when it was thought that seal brown horses like Billy (above) might be mealy black. Visually, that makes sense. The placement of the palest areas of the coat - the muzzle, eyes and undersides - are similar. However, seal brown horses consistently test as bay ( A) and not black ( a ).


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A bay horse is equine with a reddish-brown coat, dark skin, and black points including its mane, tail, ears, and lower legs. Although very rarely, they can have white markings on their head and legs. The bay horse color ranges from a light copper red to a blood bay color to dark bay and mahogany.


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Seal-Brown horses are born with this coat colour pattern fully established, quite unlike Sooty Bay horses who are born with red foal coats and darkish legs but rapidly darken along the backline after 15 months old.


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Tennessee Walking Horse Thoroughbred Rocky Mountain Horse Paso Fino Many of these breeds are colorful and have members that range from black and grey to chestnut and bay. Depending on the shade of the coat, some brown horses can appear closer to black or red. Keep reading to learn more about these brown horse breeds!


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Seal brown is a hair coat color of horses characterized by a near-black body color; with black points, the mane, tail and legs; but also reddish or tan areas around the eyes, muzzle, behind the elbow and in front of the stifle.The term is not to be confused with "brown", which is used by some breed registries to refer to either a seal brown horse or to a dark bay without the additional.


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February 24, 2022 by Allison Price Last Updated on February 24, 2022 by Allison Price Have you ever been confused by brown horses? Brown is a common color, and there are many shades. We will be talking about "Seal Brown", a stunningly beautiful color for the coat.


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Seal brown is a hair coat color of horses characterized by a near-black body color; with black points, the mane, tail and legs; but also reddish or tan areas around the eyes, muzzle, behind the elbow and in front of the stifle.


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Seal brown is a coat color of horses identified by a dark brown or near-black body with black point coloration on the tail, mane, and legs, as well as tan patches around the muzzle, eyes, in front of the stifle joint, and behind the elbow. Seal brown horses have a black base coat which is suppressed by the Agouti gene to produce the black points.


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Seal browns are often mistaken for black horses, but the coloring on the soft parts identifies them as brown. They are also genetically distinct from black horses, as discussed below. Some aspects of colour are uncertain, this includes the genetics of brown horses. They're not exactly black, they're not bay.

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