Satin was a mini filly born last year on either June 24, or a couple days following that. She is Angel's half-sister, as they had the same dam (Babe, a silver bay tobiano). Her sire was Pepper, the buckskin sabino stud that we lost last year.
Combining all the alleles that Satin's parents carried, she
could have (not did) inherited the cream, tobiano, sabino, and silver alleles. Being as both her parents were bay-based (buckskin and silver bay), it isn't a surprise that Satin herself is a bay. It
is a surprise, though, that she didn't inherit either the tobiano or sabino allele. Ah well.
We won't be selling her because she's a Pepper baby. Next year we'll start showing her, and once she's done with that she'll be added to the breeding stock. :)
Here are some pictures of her a couple days after she was born. :)
Images by Theresa Hautala, used with permission.
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| Oh yeah. Aren't I cute. |
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| Mhm. She really must have been thinking that she's queen of the muck pile. :P |
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| Awww. :) |
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| A slightly better shot of her conformation. |
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