Bernadette's Vision

By Bernadette

It's Dun Cold

This is my next door neighbor's Grulla Mare. It's too cold and snowy to leave my house so I opened my laundry room door and snapped this.

So what is Grulla? In Iceland and other parts of the world, this color is called Blue Dun.

In the USA, the lightest shade of black dun is called "Silver Grullo", then comes "Slate Grullo", then "Grullo", then "Lobo dun", with the last being the darkest shade.

So just what color is Grulla? It's often described as a mousy-gray, smoky-blue, or slate-gray color. The black is diluted by the Dun gene to an off-black, bluish, smoky-gray color; in some cases, the horses are more mousy-brown-tan, and in even more other cases, the horses are the color of the inside of a Three Musketeer candy bar.

The dorsal is black, and the face and legs are often darker than the body.

Grulla is kind of hard to describe, but once you've seen a few you will be able to identify them. In the summer she is beautiful and smoky grey.

Right now though she looks quite Dun with the cold! (Sorry couldn't resist)

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