How many different color horses are there?

Answer 1

Not including the spotted breeds, such as pintos or appaloosas, there are at least 20.

AQHA recognizes 16 colors, though there are several that they don't recognize.

Colors are actually very complicated, with the ranges or shades, patterns, and other things.

Dun, palamino, bright bay, chestnut, black, skewbald, piebald, iron grey, dapple grey, grey, liver chestnut, strawberry roan, blue roan

THE PLAIN COLOURS

• Bay-brown
• Bay
• Black-brown
• Black
• Brown
• Chestnut with flaxen mane and tail
• Chestnut
• Liver chestnut with flaxen mane and tail
• Liver chestnut
• Mealy chestnut
• Sorrel

THE ROANS

• Bay roan
• Blue roan
• Chestnut roan
• Dun roans
• Red roan
• Strawberry roan
• Yellow roan

THE GREYS

• Dappled grey
• Fleabitten grey
• Iron or steel grey
• Rose grey
• White Blagdon / Blagdon grey
• White grey

THE "BROKEN-COATS"

• Blagdon
• coloureds
• overos
• mixed patterns
• paints
• Piebald
• Pintaloosa
• pintos
• Skewbald
• tobianos

THE MIXERS: DUN, CREAM,

SILVER, CHAMPAGNE and PEARL

(and the unidentified 'fading black' and 'mushroom'!)

• Apricot
• Amber champagne
• Blue dun
• Blue-eyed cream
• Brown Buckskin
• Buckskin
• Champagne black / classic champagne
• Champagne brown / sable champagne
• Champagne chestnut / gold champagne
• Chestnut dun
• Chocolate Dapple
• Chocolate dun
• Chocolate Flax
• Cream dun
• Cremello
• Dunskin
• Dunalino
• "Fading Black / Light Black"
• Golden dun
• Grey dun
• Grullo
• Honey dun
• Isabella
• Mouse dun
• Mushroom
• Palomino
• Perlino
• Red dun
• Silvered bay
• Silver dapple
• Silver dun
• Silver grullo
• Smoky black
• Smoky Pearl
• Smoky cream
• Sooty Buckskin
• Yellow dun
• Ysabell

THE APPALOOSAS AND SPOTTEDS

• Blanket, Blanket Spot
• Frost and Snowcap
• Leopard Spot, Few-Spot Leopard
• Snowflake Spot
• Varnish Roan

THE ODDITY

• Albino

HEAD MARKINGS

• Blaze
• Chin spot
• Joined marks
• Mealy muzzle
• Milk-bucket muzzle
• Snip
• Star
• Stripe
• White face / Bald face
• White lips
• White muzzle

LEG MARKINGS

• Ermine marks
• Socks & Stockings

BODY MARKINGS

• Acquired markings
• Ben d'Or spots
• Birdcatcher spot
• Bloody Shoulder
• Brindling
• Flecking or Ticking
• Lacing
• White flash / white splash
• White hairs
• White spot

OTHER RECOGNITION POINTS

• feather-marks
• hair whorls
• prophet's thumb marks

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Answer 2

There are many different horse colors. They include... 1. Buckskin 2. Strawberry Roan 3. Bay 4. Blue Roan 5. Black 6. Dun 7. Red Dun 8. Chestnut 9. Grulla 10. Piebald 11. Skewbald 12. Cremello 13. Albino 14. Grey 15. Flea Bitten Grey 16. Dapple Grey 17. Palomino 18. Brown 19. Dark Bay 20. Light Bay 21. Liver Chestnut 22. Appaloosa 23. Tobiano 24. Sabino 25. Overo 26. Smokey Cream 27. Perlino