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Thanks! Should I put it on a foundation stud or a second gen? Should I get it hom? Or, I could put it on one of his sons, and have to add only one copy assuming they're het. What do you think?

To show snowflake, you need hom Snow and at least het App. So this colt got the App and one Snow from his sire and the other Snow from his dam, who is a lucky create that got snow! She is almost certainly het snowflake, not hom, but technically we don't know because she's not App and wouldn't show it even if she was hom. It's a random but rare gene, so she could have two but it's highly unlikely.

So yes, it's a basic punnet square, with snowflake being recessive and only showing when homozygous.

Appaloosa is a separate gene completely and inheritance of the two are not linked. However you need it to see snowflake.

All of those babies you produced from this guy are guaranteed to be het Snow, since he's hom. What I'd recommend (and what I'm doing with my own Snow line) is to keep the best couple colts who have App and keep all the fillies that meet your quality requirements, whatever those are, and then breed them to each other (inbreeding doesn't have any effects in the game, so breeding siblings is fine). You should start getting snows in that third generation. Also you'll start getting tiger eyes, since the foundation stud of the line is a TAoLMP.
Personally I'd use Are We Here Yet as your main Gen 2 stud since he's hom, so his babies with het mares will have a fifty fifty chance of being Snow and will be guaranteed carriers, vs. breeding two hets, which will give you half snow carriers, 25% snows, and 25% no snow at all.

Also, with a lined (non foundation) horse you can only GMT on a gene that the parent could have given it and it missed. And the Roving Gene Sales only work on foundations. So you can't GMT another snow onto his babies and make them hom unless the mother carried it, and actually I don't think Snow is in the GMT lab so you can't even then. You can only put it on foundations with no living descendants. So you can't add it to his sons, sorry.

You can definitely develope a snow line starting from just one homozygous stud, but multiple stallions means you can breed more mares each season, so that's what I'd do if you want to buy it.

And last thing! If you go to the upgrade page and choose a horse like you're going to buy Snow for it and click "modify this horse", it'll show you which genes it has already. You can find het snows that way. But you can only pull up horses you could mod, so it only works on those foundations with no living descendants I mentioned.

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