She's pretty! She's also black going grey, not roan.
Have a look at the little blue roan chap Wally posted above; see how his head, legs and mane are all unaffected by the roaning? That's a true roan.
Millie's greying is uniform; it affects all parts of her body. She is iron grey right now, but will get lighter and lighter as she gets older. Grey horses do often get much darker to start with - to begin with, early in teh greying process, dark pigment (dark grey or black on black based horses) is added along with the paler grey and white hair. As she gets more grey though, less and less of the dark hair will appear, and she'll get more and more pale grey and white.
For a horse to be roan, at least one parent must be roan - so they can pass the roan gene on. You do get roans hidden under grey, but even if a horse carries both roan and grey, teh roan will make sure that more pigment if retained in the head and points, until the later stages of grey take over.
She'll probably get some really interesting darker grey patterns on her head and legs over the next couple of years - almost reminiscent of appaloosa roaning. That again is part of greying out.
(Is she yours...? )
Have a look at the little blue roan chap Wally posted above; see how his head, legs and mane are all unaffected by the roaning? That's a true roan.
Millie's greying is uniform; it affects all parts of her body. She is iron grey right now, but will get lighter and lighter as she gets older. Grey horses do often get much darker to start with - to begin with, early in teh greying process, dark pigment (dark grey or black on black based horses) is added along with the paler grey and white hair. As she gets more grey though, less and less of the dark hair will appear, and she'll get more and more pale grey and white.
For a horse to be roan, at least one parent must be roan - so they can pass the roan gene on. You do get roans hidden under grey, but even if a horse carries both roan and grey, teh roan will make sure that more pigment if retained in the head and points, until the later stages of grey take over.
She'll probably get some really interesting darker grey patterns on her head and legs over the next couple of years - almost reminiscent of appaloosa roaning. That again is part of greying out.
(Is she yours...? )