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Our first foal 2011

WhyNot-Ponys April 26, 2011 April 26, 2011

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Yesterday arrived our first foal - ears like an easter bunny and a little problem to sort out her feet (her hind legs try to overtake her front legs) :love What do you think of her colour - her mom ist grey, her dad chestnut tobiano. [img]http://whynot-ponys.de/Hengste/Pares/Pares%2058_b.jpg[/img] [img]http://whynot-ponys.de/Fohlen/WhyNot%20Pandora/kl-WhyNot%20Pandora-6.jp…]

Threnody Tue, 04/26/2011 - 21:10

Looks bay tobiano with likely splash and sabino. Gray definitely possible.
I see what you mean about the legs! The second pic doesn't look like any normal gait phase I've seen. :lol:

Krickette Thu, 04/28/2011 - 09:17

Super cute!
Yeah, she's just such a rich color! Like when Jazz was born *sigh* She teased me for years before that grey finally took hold ~x( But it's growing on me, lol!

WhyNot-Ponys Thu, 04/28/2011 - 10:00

We still hope! Just checked and as yet not a single white hair around her eyes. She´s her fathers 3rd and he accomplished a chestnut tobiano foal last year out of a grey mare from very very dominant grey lines.
Last year
[img]http://whynot-ponys.de/Fohlen/WhyNot%20…]

and now -- please excuse the winter fluffy yearling :grin: - I always have to look at his foal pics to assure myself he isn´t a donkey.
[img]http://whynot-ponys.de/Fohlen/WhyNot%20…]

Monsterpony Thu, 04/28/2011 - 12:21

There is no such thing as very dominant grey lines. Either the grey is homozygous or heterozygous for the grey mutation. If that dam produced a non-grey foal, then she is heterozygous (Gg) and it has nothing to do with the sire.

WhyNot-Ponys Thu, 04/28/2011 - 23:58

I know that, but if that mare and her sisters never ever produced a foal other then grey I blame it on a very insistent gray streak (all of them were heterozygous!)

Another one of our mares had 4 foals - all of them gray - fathered from a bay, a chestnut and a palomino.
She herself had 2 siblings one from a bayroan, one from a palomino - she came from a dark chestnut - all of them were grays.
Her mom was heterozygous - she was from a gray arabian stallion (Kilimandscharo ox) out of a dark bay thoroughbred mare.
The last foal out of this gray line now is this bay tobiano filly and we hope so that we can beat the odds.

RiddleMeThis Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:35

[quote=WhyNot-Ponys]I know that, but if that mare and her sisters never ever produced a foal other then grey I blame it on a very insistent gray streak (all of them were heterozygous!)[/quote] And you'd be wrong. It was just luck of the draw, and had absolutely nothing to do with their gray mutation.

[quote]Another one of our mares had 4 foals - all of them gray - fathered from a bay, a chestnut and a palomino.
She herself had 2 siblings one from a bayroan, one from a palomino - she came from a dark chestnut - all of them were grays.
Her mom was heterozygous - she was from a gray arabian stallion (Kilimandscharo ox) out of a dark bay thoroughbred mare.
The last foal out of this gray line now is this bay tobiano filly and we hope so that we can beat the odds.[/quote]
All luck.

WhyNot-Ponys Sat, 04/30/2011 - 02:27

I know - rationally - but if you´ll try to get that insistent gray streak out of your lines, then you gnaw your knuckles when the first grey hairs arrive :BH

By the way - arriving -- yesterday our second foal arrived - a big chestnut stallion foal (no surprise - mother chestnut, father chestnut) with a beautiful facemark.
[img]http://whynot-ponys.de/Fohlen/WhyNot%20…] [img]http://whynot-ponys.de/Fohlen/WhyNot%20…]

critterkeeper Tue, 05/03/2011 - 17:35

Beautiful babyies and that last one looks like he's all legs too :grin: ...you must have a very athletic barn... :love

rabbitsfizz Tue, 05/17/2011 - 07:32

Last foal will be a Pintaloosa.
Look at inheritance this way:
Stallion sires (for the sake of argument) a possible 100 foals- if stallion is h/Z then 50 will be grey, 50 will be solid.
Just because the first 50 are solid and he never sires the last 50 does not mean he is H/Z or "dominant" it just means, depending on how you feel about grey, you were lucky!
The first foal is bay base and the stallion has something other than Tobiano going on as he has a face blaze, and by the looks of the foal it is Splash at least, probably + Sabino.
I am not sure about whether or not the foal will grey, but I can tell you it is too soon to think the red and white will [i]not[/i] grey!!

WhyNot-Ponys Fri, 05/20/2011 - 01:05

Thanks Rabbit,

I´ll keep my eye on the coming pintaloosa - he has inherited the movements of daddy, so I hope he´ll be a good one. Next week I´ll visit him to take some pics to see how he developes.

The bay tobiano girl (3 weeks now) hasn´t a white hair round the eyes yet .... so we still hope she´ll stay bay -- she´s gorgeous! I take some new pics of her today. The combination of her parents was a really good one (both of them like each other since they were babys *g* - they grew up together - more or less)

Wednesday our last foal for this season arrived - a beautiful chestnut filly without any white on her body - mommy is a palomino, daddy a chestnut with light mane and tail. I expect a surprise when she sheds her foal coat --- I take pics of her today.