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A silver bay foal has light lower legs, similar in appearance to ordinary bay foals, and becomes darker after shedding his baby coat. Silver bay commonly occurs in the Rocky Mountain Horse.

Silver seal brown is very rare (Photos ssss1–ssss1). It is recognizable by the dark brown, almost black color of the body, sometimes with a bluish tint to it, with characteristic red “burn marks” around eyes, muzzle, near the elbows, on the stomach, and the groin. The guard hair is diluted from dirty red to a whitish color.

There aren’t well-established English terms designated to represent colors deter­mined by the Silver gene on a black base. It is challenging to divide Silvery black color depending on the degree of dilution, because there are diverse phenotypes depending on the degree of Silver expression. Silver black is often a sepia color, usually combined with dapples (Photos ssss1–ssss1). The guard hair can be from dark brown to light gray or white. Dark silver black horses have a black or dark chocolate colored body, and the mane and tail can have a dark yellow color due to the presence of black hair, or sometimes can also be very white. They can be mistaken for dark flaxen chestnuts. Silver black with an almost undiluted body and no dapples is also called silver chocolate by some.