I answered in this post - purple - and then put more info below...
Thank you! LOL I think I'm just as confused as before
The sire is KLS Pistolero! And he has sired a palomino and a perlino before. I just found out that the palomino was out of a red and white pinto, makes sense! And the perlino was out of a bay and white pinto
(a bay/white has no cream gene - so resulting foal can't be perlino BUT could be a very light buckskin as our filly is)... His sire was palomino and white and his dam was black and white.
(If Pistolero's sire is a palomino and white, then he could certainly be a smokey black or a black carrying a cream gene which he can then pass on)
Sky, the mama, is registered as a red dun. Her sire was a yellow dun and her dam was a red and white pinto
(I don't really know how the dun gene works, but Sky's red/white dam could easily carry/hide a silver AND a bay gene that she passed on to Sky - making it quite possible that Sky is a silver bay/white. Skye "looks" like a silver bay/white to me. I know what a red dun is and I know that both parents do not need to pass it on for the foal to be a red dun. What is a yellow dun? Palomino or buckskin base?). Both the mare and the colt have blue eyes.
I sure like the colt a lot and love how well he is put together. Plus he has an awesome mind and is a very fast learner. I can't wait to see how he matures! Man can he walk out and his trot!! Whoot whoot! He will make a wonderful driving horse. His mama is and so was his grandsire...
So armed with that info... would we say a silver buckskin?
(I would, yes)
AND YES, he is one GOOD LOOKING COLT!!! I'd love to know what you find out if you ever get him color tested - just 'cuz. Color can be so interesting in minis and small ponies.
Thanks all!
I have done some color testing on our "herd". Others are waiting to be color tested. When I purchased a mare and stallion back this past spring, we were all excited about the color possibilities even though I'd been disappointed that the stallion hadn't been castrated as I'd sold him to them to be (I usually do it and he'd been scheduled then I sold him before the procedure for less $$ - they never got it done...).
The sire - Toro - is a dark bay tobiano. His sire is homozygous for black and tobiano. His dam is a bay tobiano that wasn't color tested. So, Toro looks like this - E?, Aa, ?T.
The mare - Kechi - is a cremello that is color tested as having a bay gene. Her color test - ee, Aa, CrCr. She has not been tested for silver, though I may have that test run - since it's possible on either side there could be a hidden silver gene.
The resulting filly, Jynx, is a buckskin tobiano. We know that she should look like this - Ee, A?, nCr, nT. She appears VERY LIGHT buckskin in her foal coat. This was a surprise and we can't wait to see what color she sheds out to be... Because her black is "definite", I really doubt she carries a silver gene.
Toro as a foal and then just before turning 5 yrs of age -
Kechi as a 2 yr old and then at 6.5 yr old -
and Jynx - on 13 May, still wet after birth & then on 28 June (in the water).
We have no need to test her for red/black or tobiano - but would test her for bay and possibly silver (IF her dam tests positive)... That way we will know, definitively what she'd produce in our future if we use her for breeding. Right now, crossed on either of our two stallions - we know we could get a bay, black, buckskin, chestnut or palomino. Bred to either of our stallions, all foals will be tobiano and some could be homozygous for tobiano. Of course, could just breed her and wait, once she's old enough.