what is a buck skin horse?

Answer 1

A buckskin horse is a horse a certain color. Bucksin just means the horse is light tan to dark tan in overall body color and has a black mane and tail.
take a look at this picture of a buckskin horse
http://www.lwranch.com/images/horses/Jokerlg.jpg
this is a pretty common shade for buckskin.
hope this helps!

Answer 2

Buckskin is a color of horses; it also refers to other things that are the color of a buckskin horse, such as the color of some breeds of dogs. The horse has a tan or gold colored coat with black points (mane, tail, and lower legs). Buckskin occurs as a result of the cream dilution gene acting on a bay horse. Therefore, a buckskin has the Extension, or "black base coat" (E) gene, the agouti (A) gene (see bay for more on the agouti gene), which restricts the black base coat to the points, and one copy of the cream gene, which lightens the red/brown color of the coat to a tan/gold.

Buckskins should not be confused with dun-colored horses, which have another type of dilution gene, not the cream gene. Duns always have primitive markings (shoulder blade stripes, dorsal stripe, zebra stripes on legs, webbing). Unlike buckskins, who have the creme gene, dun horses have the dun gene. However, it is possible for a horse to carry both dilution genes; these are called "buckskin duns" or sometimes "dunskins." Also, bay horses without any dun gene may have a faint dorsal stripe, which sometimes is darkened in a buckskin without a dun gene being present. Additional primitive striping beyond just a dorsal stripe is a sure sign of the dun gene.

A buckskin horse can occur in any number of different breeds, though at least one parent must be from a breed that carries the dilution gene, and not all breeds do. Since 1963, the American Buckskin Registry Association has been keeping track of horses with this unique coat color.

Answer 3

Its a color of coat....
buckskin is a horse with a cream, yellow, golden, or tanish body and dark points. This is genetically a bay or brown with one cream gene. Buckskin is created by the same dilution that makes palomino-- only buckskin is cream acting on a bay base, and palomino is cream acting on a chestnut base.

The single cream gene, which dilutes red pigment but not black, gives a tan-bodied horse with black points. The body color can range from a pale almost-white cream color, to a deep chocolate or almost red body. Some buckskins can be almost mistaken for bays, like the Morgan stallion Blacksaddle Starbuck at the right, who looks like a dappled bay but is a buckskin because he has produced double-dilute foals. He is owned by Chris Holm of Devine Morgans.



Buckskin is often confused with dun, a dilute which can be almost identical to dun. A dun, however, will have a dorsal stripe and other "dun factors" that distinguish it from a regular buckskin. Sometimes the mane or tail will have 'frosting', where the outer hairs are diluted like the body color. This looks similar to the frosting in duns; however, the two color are caused by different genes.

Buckskin horses were thought to be tough and hardy by cowboys-- a saying says "you can't kill a buckskin". Buckskins were-- and are-- considered flashy or showy colored horses for showing.

Buckskins are heterozygous (one cream gene, not two) so do not breed true-- meaning that buckskin X buckskin will not always yeild buckskin (in fact, it can yeild a variety of color-- chestnut, bay, black, buckskin, palomino, smoky black, cremello, perlino).


Very light buckskins are often called Buttermilk Buckskin; Darker golden buckskins are called Golden Buckskin

The genetic makeup of a buckskin is E?A?Crcr, the ?'s standing for either dominant or recessive form; it depends on the horse-- can be either "E" or "e" in the first case, or "A" or "a" in the second-- either way the horse will be a buckskin.

Go to:http://www.ultimatehorsesite.com/colors/buckskin.html

go to:http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/~lvmillon/coatcolor/coatclr3.html

Answer 4

A buck skin horse is just a name for a horse with a gold body with a black mane and tail, with black frm the knees down all of the way around. Along with a black strip down the back

Answer 5

A buckskin horse is a gold/tan/beige horse with a black mane and tail. It also has a dorsal stripe, a black stripe that runs from its withers to its dock (or, the base of its neck to its tail, if you're not sure on horse lingo).

Answer 6

a horse that looks tan or similar to a dun but has to have a dorsal stripe (dark stripe down their back) or would otherwise be called a dun or chestnut

Answer 7

A Dunn with dark mane and tail

Answer 8

Refers to the colour of the horse ... kind of a grey-yellow.

Answer 9

Very pretty! I have one 6yo gelding named Georgie. lol there kind-a like a palomino color only tanner and have a black mane and tail and usually a black line down the back and black stockings and/or a white dimond

Answer 10

Buckskin is a color. The body is a tan color and the block points are black. Block points are the mane, tail, and legs.

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=buckskin&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&fr2=tab-web

http://pets.webshots.com/photo/1204232901046428501tNUYsM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckskin_(color)