Birthdate: May 7, 1999
Registrations: IPAA F4-2; ApHC 585135; ICAA F3-1976; FAHR 602; CRHA 6503P; SBC 1408B; DCROA APBST0079
Color and Pattern: Sunny is a bay dun fewspot stallion (homozygous for leopard complex, heterozygous for leopard pattern - LP/LP, PATN-1/patn-1). He is DNA tested heterozygous black/extension and homozygous bay/agouti (E/e, A/A) and is progeny proven to be dun (has a dun sire also). He has proven himself to be a 100% color/characteristic producer, not just by his coat pattern but by his progeny.
Gait: Sunny is easy gaited, usually performing a running walk and sometimes a fox trot in addition to the standard walk, trot, canter, and gallop. A large number of his foals have inherited his easy gaits.
Personality: He is very gentle and sweet, even a bit shy with strangers. Our 4-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son love to take pony rides on Sunny in the pasture, down the road, and all around the farm. He is good in a variety of herd groupings - he is kept with the expecting mares until one foals and then he is moved to a neighboring pasture to avoid breeding on a foal heat, he is good while pasturing with the mares he is breeding, and he has lived off and on over the years with stallions and geldings - he spent October 2008 to the present living with our gelding Bo and Sunny's intact 2007 colt Red with no problem at all!
Breeders and Progeny: Sunny was bred by Kyle and Sue Magnuson at 2KS NorthStar in Garvin, MN; we have photos of Sunny's past foals. Of his past 18 foals, he has sired 9 colts and 9 fillies, with all patterns represented and with the colors being bays, seal browns/dark bays, bay duns, chestnuts, and red dun. Sunny obviously is capable of siring big, bold color. Also see the brag page on NorthStar Casper for more information on this fabulous young stallion, sired by Sunny! We hope to add another brag page soon for NorthStar Ladybug, a Sunny daughter who is being trained for endurance riding and cowboy mounted shooting! Other of his progeny are used as family riding mounts and as breeding stock.
Pedigree: His pedigree includes Ferras (11x), Mansfield's Comanche (8x), Starbuck Leopard (7x), Morgan's Leopard (3x), Navajo's Candy (2x), Sundance (2x), Simcoe's Sarcee, Simcoe's Chinook, Spotted Eagle, Revel Jr., Painter's Marvel, Red Eagle, Bambi E, High Spot, Bright Eyes Brother, Buttons B, Double Six Domino, Cooterville Norrell's Little Red, and Toby I.
Video: We now have two short video clips for you to see Sunny's movement, although both are at a gallop. We are continuing to try to catch him shuffling and will post shuffling video as soon as possible. Click here for links to video clips of Sunny galloping to the left and to the right. Note: he is galloping in a one acre pasture in 4 to 6 inches of snow.
Breeding:
$550 live cover stud fee with a variety of discounts, as applicable
$850 shipped semen fee with the same discounts available (EVA negative) (includes collection fee, shipping, and disposable container)
$100 nonrefundable booking fee due upon signing of breeding contractmare care -- $3 per day after the first 7 days; extras such as exercise and grain negotiable; pasture board only
requirements for live cover breeding:
negative Cogginsnegative uterine culture if the mare has not had a foal recentlyrabies, tetanus, and West Nile Virus vaccinations (EEE and WEE recommended)live colored foal guarantee for first 96 hours
We offer cooled shipped semen for the U.S. and Canada. Please contact us for more information or to
contract a collection. If you are interested in an overseas shipment, contact us and we may be able to arrange collection at another facility, although the cost will be higher than our standard shipped semen costs.
Please check our contracts page to see exactly what we offer. Every contract is tailored to the individual.
We are open to trades for stud fees.
We do have the right to refuse breeding to a mare we do not believe to be a good match to Sunny.
***We now have a progeny report available that gives information on mares to whom Sunny has been bred with photos of mares and foals to help in understanding how Sunny might work with your own mare!
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