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Why are brown horses brown?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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Well this would depend on your definition of 'brown'. there is bay, brown, and chestnut (technically red but looks brown to those who don't know horses) The color of a horse is decided by genetics. The foal inherits a copy of each parents genetic code and then they express themselves on the foal.

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