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Yes, but I'm talking about how inheritance would apply to straws pulled. Do inheritance stick, or does the straws revert to 50/50 when used?

If you make his inherentance on the 2nd set of DNA, the foals will only get genes from that 2nd set of DNA. No different than setting the inherentance for one set or the other to 100% and using him for live cover

Thanks for all the replies, I'm still a bit confused, lol.

Oh ok, thanks for clearing that up.

I wound up deciding to geld that chimera because his top strand had all the genes I would have wanted except the missing sire line gene, and while his bottom strand had the missing gene, it was not as good as the top strand and would have required some GMT work before I would have been satisfied. Another thing to take into consideration for me was that only the top strand is cloneable even if I wasn't planning to clone. One never knows what they'll decide to do down the road.

So if I get another chimera where there's a big difference in genes between the strands, at least I'll know about how straws would work with inheritance set to 100%.

I know I've gotten a chimera that had really good genes but still needed some GMT work to fit my herd. It is cheaper to GMT inheritance and then only GMT one strand, especially if both start out similarly useful.

@NightPhoenix - if I'm not mistaken, using a chimera with 100% inheritance on one set still gives the foals a slight advantage of coming out chimeric themselves. I could be wrong though so dont quote me