Chickadee

Chickadee is one of a pretty big group of 2013 buybacks. Her sire is the half Arabian chestnut tobiano Courtney's Boy and her dam is the bay tobiano Black Star. I featured her dam last week and one of her dam's granddaughters last month. Her 2011 full sister Beacon was also kept, but she died as a young mare. Chickadee hasn't had any foals kept for the herd yet. One of her daughters has been color tested and her results are here: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/.../tested-pony...
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/arabian.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/halfarabian.html

Chickadee is a bay carrying recessive chestnut. Her Black Star dam was too. She inherited the chestnut from her chestnut sire Courtney's Boy. Also like her dam she might also have two copies of agouti since she hasn't produced a black foal in 10 foals. Three of her bay foals were sired by the black Ace's Black Tie Affair. Her color tested daughter is homozygous for agouti.

https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html
She's a tobiano pinto like both of her parents but she only inherited one copy of tobiano. We know this because 3 of her foals have been solid, not pinto.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html

Chickadee has a cool roaned star. This is likely from roaning that often happens on tobianos.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/roaning.html

Chickadee's daughter Tallulah tested to have two other white/pinto patterns: White 34 and White 35. It's possible one or both of them could have come from Chickadee. No way to know at this point.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/white34.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/white35.html

She one of my commonly used examples of mealy on a bay. That's the light colored hair around her nose and on her flanks. Her full sister Beacon also had a good bit of mealy. Mealy is genetic in some way but we don't know the how yet.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/mealy.html