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# Dunskin
- URL: https://equinecolors.com/dunskin/
- Published: 2025-12-02T13:53:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-10T10:45:17.000Z
- Description: Dunskin, or buckskin dun, is a horse coat color caused by one copy of cream and one copy of dun on a bay base. The coat is golden with primitive markings and dark points.
- Author: Hannelore Roodhooft
- Tags: Colors, Dilutions, MATP, #Import 2026-08-12 09:42

## Appearance

| Foals | ![Dunskin](https://equinecolors.com/content/images/2025/12/dunskinfoal.png) | **Creamy/golden coat** color, similarto buckskin, with [**primitive markings**.](https://equinecolors.com/dictionary/#:~:text=a%20bay%20horse.-,Primitive%20markings,-Primitive%20markings%20may) |
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| <pBay base diluted to a yellow or goldcolor. Primitive markings are present.Points and primitives are black in color.</p  ![Dunskin horse](https://equinecolors.com/content/images/2025/12/dunskin-1.png)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | Adults       | Bay shade variations                                                               | Seal browndunskin | ![Seal brown dunskin](https://equinecolors.com/content/images/2026/01/sealdunskin.png)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
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| Bay variations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | Sootydunskin | ![Sooty dunskin](https://equinecolors.com/content/images/2026/01/sootydunskin.png) |                   |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| MimicsDunskin horses could be confused with regular buckskins, because they can have a similar coat color. Darker shade dunskins could be confused with bay dun. Dunskin horses have a more yellow tone, like buckskin. Bay dun horses tend to have a more peachy tone. Dunskins also show primitive markings because of the dun dilution. GeneticsDunskin is the result of a bay base diluted by one copy of cream and one copy of dun.The cream (CR) dilution is an allele of the MATP gene. The dun (D) dilution is an allele of the TBX3 gene. Dunskin:Bay (E/\_ A/\_) + CR/n + D/\_ Read more:Bay | Buckskin     | Bay dun                                                                            | Dunalino          | Smoky dunBack to CreamArticlesImsland, F., McGowan, K., Rubin, C. J., Henegar, C., Sundstrom, E., Berglund, J., Schwochow, D., Gustafson, U., Imsland, P., Lindblad-Toh, K., Lindgren, G., Mikko, S., Millon, L., Wade, C., Schubert, M., Orlando, L., Penedo, M. C., Barsh, G. S., & Andersson, L.; Regulatory mutations in TBX3 disrupt asymmetric hair pigmentation that underlies Dun camouflage color in horses; Nature Genetics (2015); Doi: 10.1038/ng.3475Locke, M. M., Ruth, L. S., Millon, L .V., Penedo, M. C. T., Murray, J. D., & Bowling, A. T.; The cream dilution gene, responsible for the palomino and buckskin coat colours, maps to horse chromosome 21. Animal Genetics (2001); doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2052.2001.00806.xMariat, D., Taourit, S., & Guérin, G.; A mutation in the MATP gene causes the cream coat colour in the horse. Genetics Selection Evolution (2003); doi: 10.1051/gse:2002039 Learn while playing! Discover how genes shape colors and patterns in our realistic horse breeding game, Horse Reality Play now |