Buckskin

Buckskin is a tan or gold colored coat with black points such as mane, tail, and lower legs. They are often mistaken for Dun-Colored Horses, which have another type of dilution gene, not the cream gene like Buckskins. Duns always have primitive marks such as shoulder blade stripes, dorsal stripe, zebra stripes on legs, and webbing. It is possible for a horse to carry both dilution genes; these are called "buckskin duns" or "dunskins".

A Buckskin Color 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. 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.

Buckskin horses have always been considered flashy and showy colored horses for showing, yet thought to be tough and hardy by the cowboys.

Very light buckskins are often called Buttermilk Buckskin while Darker golden buckskins are called Golden Buckskins.