Tested Pony: Chincoteague's Leaping a Wind O' Feathers

Today's featured tested pony is Chincoteague's Leaping a Wind O' Feathers, aka Tallulah. She's a yearling born on Assateague in 2023. Her sire is bay tobiano Maverick and dam is the bay tobiano Chickadee, both still live on Assateague.

Tallulah is a chestnut and is a good example of chestnut being recessive as both of her parents are bay. She tested as e/e as all chestnuts do. The chestnut from her sire likely came from Maverick's dam was a chestnut tobiano. Her dam Chickadee's recessive chestnut came from her chestnut tobiano sire.

She tested as homozygous for agouti or A/A. Agouti is what causes the black on bays to be only on the pony's points. Since Tallulah doesn't have any black her two copies of agouti has nothing to do. But it's interesting that both of her bay parents passed it on to her!

Tallulah doesn't have a dorsal stripe or any other primitive markings. Her test shows that as she has two copies on non-dun2. The nd2 mutation removes primitive markings.

Finally the most interesting part is her pinto pattern. Tallulah is visibly a tobiano like both of her parents. She inherited one copy of tobiano which shows up as TO/n on her test. Since she only has one copy then only one of her parents passed it on to her. Tallulah tested as having two of the Sabino/White group of pinto patterns, W34 and W35. She's only one of two Chincoteageus tested as having both White 34 and White 35. W34 or W35 likely made her have a blaze as it often does that. I don't have a lot of info on how the mix of these three pinto patterns can act. My guess is she may have a bit more white having all three than if she was tobiano only.

Thanks to Tallulah's owner Bailey Hering for testing her and sharing the results!