A look at liver chestnut horses around the world and on a variety of different breeds.
Probably the least common of the chestnut shades, livers can look almost black in color, but still have no actual black hair. The coat ranges from reddish brown to a deep, dark red color. While mane and tail can be various shades of red, independent of body color (and each other). When dark chestnut animals are affected by the cream dilution, we get a striking chocolate palomino. This combination looks very similar to animals with a flaxen modifier which lightens only mane and tail hair. Both of the above can also be confused with silver dapple if accompanied by a flaxen mane and tail.
