New Buckskin? filly and pics...

[Camilla]

Got to watch this lovely girl being born on Friday... she is very sweet and even cuter in person. Gaits around happily... I am thrilled with her.
Here's some pics and questions for you colour pros...
She had a definite visible dorsal stripe when wet and shades of stripes on her legs faintly... will she turn dun or stay buckskin? Will she stay this creamy light? Obviously her legs will darken. Her mom is a Grulla Dun and has had mostly duns, dad is a chestnut.
I'm calling her Fantasma for now as she is like a little spectre...
small pics, sorry.
http://www.finavistafarm.ca/Sorpresa-Filly-Web1.jpg
http://www.finavistafarm.ca/Sorpresa-Filly-Web3.jpg
http://www.finavistafarm.ca/Sorpresa-Filly-Web6.jpg
http://www.finavistafarm.ca/Sorpresa-Filly-Web2.jpg
http://www.finavistafarm.ca/Sorpresa-Filly-Web7.jpg
http://www.finavistafarm.ca/Sorpresa-Filly-Web5.jpg
http://www.finavistafarm.ca/Sorpresa-Filly-Web4.jpg

[Pasogirlz]

Oh how precious! I love her already.
I think her color will be darker golden after she sheds out. ;-)

[Blameitonbrio]

She is exquisite!

[JennLM]

All these pretty babies, I love them all. I love seeing what colors they turn as they age. I bet she will be so very prettily colored.

[baileyholc]

Cute baby, and congradulations. Welcome to the bb.

[Laura S]

Oh she is soooo cute. Isn't it amazing how they gait from day one??! She looks like she has very long legs too and a cute petite face. Congrats!

[RVF_Pasos]

Congradulations! What a beautiful filly. You sure got the complete package; long legs, cute face, and great color. :D

[Linda Y]

Oh, how pretty! And what a good momma.

[CarolU]

Pretty filly Camilla....I hope she stays that nice buttermilk color. Pretty unusual for Pasos...

Congratulations on a nice healthy foal.

[Terri]

Awwwwww. Not THAT is cute! congratulations.

[echo]

Hi Camilla,
Beautiful filly, congratulations! If you see a stripe, likely it will remain and the baby will be a dun. It is quite common, though, for there to be some "countershading", which is often mistaken for a dorsal stripe. If you see leg bars, I would lean towards dun. What a beautiful filly! Likely, she will darken some. How is Finola doing?

[Barbwire]

Hay Camilla! Now I seem to recall not too long ago you sold some horses saying you didn't have time for them and blah, blah, blah. Now you're making new ones. You are an addict, fess up! Hee hee!
Love the babe, BTW. :D

[Camilla]

Guilty as charged, Barb.... guilty as charged.

I am going to PA (Pasoholics Anonymous) meetings... but it's not helping. Somehow I saw how crazy my life was with 1 and 2 year-old boys and 10 Pasos (5 boarders) and thought... hey, why not get 3 more Pasos? Oh and why not have 2 of them in foal (this mare and sweet Finola... due next month), to make it a nice even 15? Better yet... let's agree to board a lady's 3 Rocky Mountain horses for 6 weeks or so... and see if we get so busy our head actually pops off!!

In order to fool my partner and self into thinking I don't have too big a problem I constantly move them around ( luckily there's 2 barns and various paddocks)and usually refuse to keep count. I've sent 2 out for training and 1 is being leased as a lesson horse... god forbid they are all ever lined at once in front of me... I will keel over and konk.

Yes. admitting you have a problem is supposed to be the first step to healing oneself. Some of them (these 2 included) are supposed to be for sale... I just have to make sure and not replace them right away! :lol:
Wish me luck!

[DebbieS]

Whatever color she is, she is beautiful. And mommy is just as beautiful! Congratulations!!

So.... if you don't admit it, it's not a sickness, right? And.... you don't have to heal, right??

Just say right!

[LynnG]

Everyone knows you can't have just one Paso, some of us just take it a step or two further. Don't worry I have more then you do here, and I love most every minute doing things with my horses. Only when I'm under the weather or its very freezing cold weather do I think about it much. Its just a way of life! What would "we" be doing otherwise ... official couch potatoes.

[JennLM]

You are right she does look like mine except mine had more black on her. Hopefully yours will stay this color = ) It's the color I had wanted.

[motorgypsy]

Duns, even newborn, have really obivous stripes and legbars but if mom is a dun and dad is a chestnut where would a creme gene come from???

newborn pale gold now as a two year old dun

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/motorgypsy/IM000419a.jpg

[Brigitte]

Congrats! And wow, such a nice light color!!

[Camilla]

Kyle,
what does that baby in pic look like now?
Fanny (my filly) had a visible dorsal stripe when she was wet and you can see faint shadows of leg stripes, but pretty hard to see either.
Her mum is a grulla dun and dad is a chestnut, so can she technically come out a buckskin and not a dun?
I am confused.
Man, she is the cutest darn filly I've ever seen, though. I have to get more pics. her hair is still curly, too, which is so cute.

Jenn,
your girl looks kind of silver in the pic, is she like that in real life? Does she have a dorsal stripe? I love the real metallic silver-grey grullas.

[JennLM]

Yup, she has a dorsal stripe and stripes on her legs. I would love if she ended up a black dun. She is an odd color when I look, blackish/tanish/greyish. I should be upset since I was told she was a buckskin and I can see she is some kind of Dun or grey. But she is here and I love her and it just means I have to buy another Paso LOL