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Kachina Grand Star turned 20 this year and is one of many daughters of the half Arabian North Star kept for the herd. Her dam was the buckskin Salt Water Taffee who is a granddaughter of Sweet Mischief/Goose that I featured recently. She's had two daughters kept for the herd, the palominos Kachina Mayli Mist and short lived Kachina's Shanandoah Raindancer. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/arabian.html Kachina is a buckskin like her dam. Buckskin is a bay with the cream dilution. Around half of her foals have inherited her cream including her two buyback daughters. The cream can be traced back to her half Arabian maternal great grandsire Gunner's Moon. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/buckskin.html Since she's a bay with cream she has a copy of black and of agouti. Agouti restricts her black to her points. She's never produced a black so it looks like she has two copies of agouti. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html Kachina carries one copy of recessive chestnut from her chestnut sire. Her palomino and chestnut foals show this copy of chestnut even though she visually doesn't. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html Her sire North Star was a tobiano pinto but she didn't inherit it from him. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html The black on Kachina's legs is usually a lot lower or more minimal than most buckskins. This kind of minimal black is called wild bay, or in her case wild buckskin. It so far hasn't been found to be genetic. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/wildbuckskin.html Kachina Grand Star's likely genetic makeup: E/e, A/A, CR/n  
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Island Star was this striking mare born sometime in the late 1980s. She also had the names Lucky Star and Sea Star. Her old ID number was #32 that was branded on her shoulder. Can see it in this Pony Penning 2008 picture. Her parents are unknown. Island Star's only known foal kept for the herd is current herd member Pappy's Pony. She died winter 2008/2009. I'm working on a book that's coming out next year and got to the "island" named mares last week so she popped in my mind when looking for a pony to feature! Island Star was a chestnut. Because chestnut is a recessive she passed it on to all of her foals, whether they were chestnut or not. Pappy's Pony is a bay but can see the recessive chestnut inherited from her dam in her many chestnut foals. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html Her most distinctive feature was her flaxen mane. Is the best way to identify her! Island Star's tail was a lighter shade of chestnut but not as white as her mane was. We don't know how flaxen is inherited but it's genetic in some way. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/flaxen.html It looks like Island Star had at least one copy of agouti. We don't have a record of all of her foals but she didn't produce a black, only bays and chestnuts. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html Island Star only had a star and a sock but she had some flashy foals over the years. Her last foal Chincoteague Mystic Blaze had a big blaze and socks. Her granddaughter out of Pappy's Pony, Riptide's Cocoa Dream, tested as having White 20 and Eden White 3. They could have come from other ponies in the family but it does make me wonder.  Saltwater Pearl is a 2025 foal born on Assateague and owned by Rose of Sharon Ranch. Thanks for sharing her results! Pearl is by palomino Chief Golden Eagle and out of buckskin tobiano Serendipity. She has three full siblings. Last year's full sibling was also a double dilute. Saltwater Pearl's test results: e/e, A/A, CR/CR, nd2/nd2, TO/n Pearl is the pale, near white, color of a double cream dilute. Ponies like her have two copies of the cream dilution. Cream is an incomplete dominant which means two copies of cream look different than one. Her test showed this as CR/CR. As you can see she also has pink skin and blue eyes which is something all double dilutes have. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/doubledilute.html Most double dilutes visually look the same and require testing to find out which type they are. In Pearl's case she could be a cremello or a perlino. Her sire appears to be homozygous for agouti which would rule out smoky cream for her. Pearl's test says she is a cremello. e/e means she has two copies of red/chestnut. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html It's really hard to tell when looking at her but Peral is tobiano pinto. She has one copy because only her dam is tobiano. This showed on her test as TO/n. The white markings of double dilutes can be very hard to see as they blend into the pale coat color. When they're wet they can be seen a lot easier. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html The last part of her test nd2/nd2 tells us that she doesn't have or doesn't have the mutation to have primitive markings, like a dorsal stripe. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings.html   Outcrossing info! This is a half Arabian yearling colt sold at the end of the 2000 auction. He was bred by Stanley White and born at his Grandeur Arabians in Florida. He sold for $1,300. The other week I was pulling info from the Arabian Horse Association Datasouce on Chincoteague associated Arabians. Noticed a HAHR record that matched up with this colt. According to the record he was registered as Handsome Dreamer. His sire is the Arabian Calistoe and his dam is Pebbles who was owned by White. Pebbles was born on Assateague in 1994. She was sired by Hurricane and was likely the first foal of Witchkraft/Friendly Girl. Handsome Dreamer's only recorded show record was a placing in a Native Costume class in 2006. There aren't a ton of half Chincoteagues registered as half Arabians so it's fun to find some like this colt!  Effie's Papa Bear, better known as Hoppy, was born in 2007. He was sired by the bay tobiano half Arabian Sockett to Me. His dam was the Assateague born full Mustang solid bay Mermaid. I think his breeding is really interesting and is definitely why he's pretty tall! He was quite leggy when he was a foal. The 2007 stallions turning 19 next year is making me feel things. Hoppy has had one son kept for the herd and 9 daughters. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/arabian.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/mustang.html Hoppy is a bay like both of his parents. It sure looks like he inherited agouti from both of them because he hasn't sired a black out of tons of foals. That also means he passes one copy of agouti on to all his foals, including the chestnuts. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html Multiple foals of Hoppy are chestnut, including his son, so he carries chestnut recessively. Both of his parents also carried recessive chestnut so one of them passed it on to him. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html Effie's Papa Bear's likely genetic makeup: A/A, E/e   |
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