Dakota Sky's Cody 2 Socks, Cody for short, turns 20 year this year. She's a daughter of the half Arabian Copper Moose and the 1/4 Arabian Stevenson's Dakota Sky. Two of her foals and two of her grandfoals have been kept for the herd.
Arabian outcrossing: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/arabian.html Cody is bay so she has black and agouti, which keeps that black on the points. She's like her sire, a buckskin, but she didn't inherit his cream. Since her dam was chestnut that tells us that she carries recessive chestnut. Interestingly, her 8 foals have all been bay. I think she might be homozygous for agouti, but her not having a red foals appears to be luck of the draw. All but one of her foals was sired by Wild Thing, who also had recessive chestnut. And her other foal was by a chestnut. Perhaps if she had more foals then red would eventually have popped up. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html I think Cody may have a white pattern of some type. A couple of her foals were a little flashier than would be expected. She didn't inherit tobiano from her dam but perhaps something else is there. There's quite a few white patterns like the Eden Whites or W24 that produce minimal to no white markings. But they can boost the amount of white on a pony that has something like tobiano. No way to tell without testing but it's something to think about!
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