What color would you call this cow?

[Little Joe]

My wife and I were debating the color of this cow, she says it's black, I call it brown. She text my son and daughter in law to get their opinion and son says black and daughter in law says brown. When she told daughter in law that I said brown also, daughter in law said she knew she was right since that's what I said. I love that girl. This cow sheds off to a real dark chocolate color, like a chocolate lab. I told wife that she and son are color blind. I pointed to black one we have and said that is black. What would y'all call this color?

 

[ClinchValley86]

Chocolate! Lol. That's what I call em. They're my favorite... hands down.

My understanding with simmentals is it is technically black i think, but it's a mutated dillutor gene. I think a rat tail or a partial rat tail can accompany the color.

She looks like a good one! If ya were near TN I'd ask if ya wanted to sell her.

 

[SBMF 2015]

Definitely looks like a chocolate Simmental to me.

 

[GoWyo]

Sh#tmuckle brown is the official name for that color.

 

[Twisted]

What now........

 

[RockinRB]

I'd call her dark gray

 

[farmerjan]

Chocolate... or some would say a mud brown here...
She is not a "black cow" ... like you said, put her next to a black and then do the compare...

 

[Mrcopier]

Definitely brown

 

[Twisted]

What now........

Brown Cow

 

[gcreekrch]

Sh#tmuckle brown is the official name for that color.

We use that term also.

 

[MurraysMutts]

Yep! Shes a lil chocolate drop!

 

[gman4691]

Here, my mother would call it turd muckledy-dun

 

[branxchar&charx]

A dark smokey lol

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

In horses that color is called Seal Bay.

 

[Wall Murray Greys]

Dun or chocolate… definitely from a dilution gene. We have several that color.

 

[coachg]

Fellow we rent pasture from calls that gray/ brown gurulla. I had only heard it used in color of horses .

 

[Warren Allison]

Fellow we rent pasture from calls that gray/ brown gurulla. I had only heard it used in color of horses .

I was going to say "grulla", but figured only horse people would know what I meant.

 

[puzzled in oregon]

The cow looks dark grey, like some Angus x Murray Grey. This calf to me, seems a chocolate color.
But interesting the different way some of us see these colors.