Historical Pony: Honeybee

Honeybee was a buckskin tobiano mare born in 1990. Her sire was a solid buckskin Quarter Horse and her dam was chestnut tobiano Nosey. Her parents were only recently discovered! Her donors originally named her Misty Morning and she was named Honeybee by the Chincoteague Pony Association several years later. Her ID number was A29 which was branded on her shoulder. She appeared to have only had one foal kept for the herd, 1999 buyback God’s Grace. Her 1995 son Spur Decision was an off island stallion. Honeybee passed away the winter of 2013/2014.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/quarter-horse.html

Honeybee was a buckskin like her sire. A buckskin is a bay with the cream dilution. About half her foals were palomino or buckskin, which is what’s expected. Her only buyback was a buckskin.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/buckskin.html

Honeybee never had a black foal so it’s possible she had two copies of agouti. Agouti is what results in a bay so a pony with two copies of it can’t have a black.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html

She carried chestnut recessively because her dam was chestnut. Before knowing her dam was Nosey her chestnut and palomino foals told us that.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html

Honeybee was a tobiano pinto with one copy. Since only her dam was tobiano she could only inherit one copy. She had both tobiano and solid foals, her buyback was a solid. Another thing we could figure out using offspring before knowing who her parents were.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html

She was considered a minimal tobiano, almost a cryptic tobiano. Honeybee’s only white was her four white legs, standard for tobiano, and a stripe on her neck that gave her a white streak in her mane. Something was restricting the amount of white tobiano was wanting to put on her. Interestingly she has a lot less white than her dam did.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/minimaltobiano.html