Tuney

Tuney, sometimes spelled Tunie, is one of the elder mares in the current herd having been born in 2003. I took a couple of foal photos of her and didn't realize it until years later! She had the nickname Queenie before her name was known because she was Queen Neptune. Her sire was the chestnut tobiano Willie's Majestic Dreamer, she was the only one of his foals kept for the herd. Tuney looks a lot like her brown tobiano dam Seaside. She has had two foals kept for the herd, Don Leonard Stud II and JAZ Willa's Mirackle.

She's a dark bay or brown. Browns are so far genetically the same as bays, however in other breeds it's different so we'll have to see what research shows in the future. Tuney only has one copy of agouti because she produced one black foal. Interestingly her son Don Leonard Stud II does appear to be homozygous for agouti because he's never sired a black foal out of dozens of offspring. The first photo is her in her summer coat and the second is in her winter coat, the color shade of her coat changes with the seasons.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/brown.html

Tuney carries recessive chestnut from her chestnut sire. She's also produced a few chestnuts, including her stallion son Don Leonard Stud II. A pony can only be chestnut if both parents either are chestnut or carry it recessively.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html

She's an excellent example of a tobiano pinto. Tuney's produced several solid colored foals so that tells us she carries one copy of her pinto pattern. Both of her parents were tobiano but only one of them passed tobiano on to her.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html

Tuney's likely genetic makeup is E/e, A/a, TO/n.