Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The Duns

This is Misty. She is a Red Dun. She looks fairly similar to Buck, except she has a red mane with blond streaks and a red tail. Her legs are red and her only marking is a white star on her forehead. She is bigger than Buck. I never noticed until I looked at these pics side by side how different their heads are! Misty has a very small, refined, feminine head. Her muzzle gets thinner as you get closer to her nose. Her cheek bones and eye orbits are refined and delicate.

Buck on the other hand, has chunky cheeks and prominant eye sockets. His muzzle does not thin out much towards his nose and has a more boxy shape to it. His bottom lip does not protrude as much as Misty's does. He is supposedly a buckskin, but I think he is actually a dun. He has dark legs, dark mane and tail with some blond highlights. His markings are brown or black not red like Misty's. Hence he is a dun and she is a red dun. Buck has more white markings...he has a star, a snip and one white foot. He had leg barring (like tiger stripes) on his legs. Both Buck and Misty have dorsal stripes on their backs.
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Its just interesting, how similar and yet different they are. I never noticed to what extent until I put these head shots side by side.

1 comment:

Patsy said...

Love all of the pictures of the last few days post.
Patsy