WW: Greying

Opie is my first grey horse. Before him I've never paid much attention to the greying process of other people's horses, so watching how his coat and markings have changed already even in the short time I've owned him has turned me into kind of an obnoxious child. (Shout out to my barn mate who patiently listened to me as I giddily pointed all things out to her the other day.)

dopes the day i bought him off the backside
10/21/17

he's starting to get a lot of brown on both his shoulders
6/2/18

sometimes it looks more red than brown
6/20/18

what i originally thought was a large white sock all the way up
has turned out to be a normal sized sock with lighter grey hairs
filling out the top of it. it's really noticeable now when he's wet.
6/10/18

and this great big white blaze...

is actually just a great big white snoot that only extends halfway
up his face. the rest is just lighter grey hair--with maybe a star snuck
in there at the top as well!
6/18/18

For those of you with greys (either currently or in the past), how much did your horse's appearance change as they lightened up? Did it take them forever to start to change shade, or was it within a year or two? I'd love to see some posts with pictures on this, too! Lauren just did a really interesting one!