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Silver black is great for chinchilla. Seeing that for the first time when chinchilla came out was my "must have!" moment. Chinchilla on silver black is also often paired with chocolate to get some unique looking dark brown dapples, more dynamic than you could with a DP dark bay. Brown with S+ used to be really cool because it created a unique white patch with a dappley edge on the belly where the red was eliminated, though I'm not sure it looks quite the same with the agouti update. But S+ can give you a similar effect. Classic champagne with reverse dapples is also really cool looking. And silver black chinchilla with hom nexus is amazing! That's actually one of my goals with my new lines. Rainbow riot like nacre and toner especially can be really cool on chinchilla, because it's adding color back to an otherwise grayscale horse. Satin can be neat for the same reason. I imagine void can also be really dynamic because it'll add black markings instead of white. Something new that can be done because of void is have a red-based chinchilla line with black markings. I'll link to the example below. My older GMT boy, Puddle Jumper, is a silver black chinchilla with toner and pangare+. The color comes through in the dapples and the pangare+ area. One of my new lines is a nacre silver black chinchilla which I think is incredible. Ice 9 can also look neat if you have a really light colored chinchilla with a lot of red areas turned white. Other tips, you don't need DP in a chinchilla line since it only darkens red pigment which chinchilla eliminates. Also, if you're concerned about getting your horses on the leader boards, you might want to add some other fantasy genes so the horses can enter more breeder's clubs since chinchilla will disqualify them from the era and size and other color clubs.

Here's some color combo examples:

Silver black chinchilla (even though you've already seen this, it's a great example):


Shebrokath

With S+:


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Brown chinchilla with S+ (the old look):


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Brown chinchilla with S+ (the new look):


14966231 2g

Chocolate silver black chinchilla:


MSH 14714320

With S+:


MSH 15517174

Classic champagne chinchilla with reverse dapples (you might have to reroll to get dapples to show, they won't always):


16289520

Void chestnut chinchilla (though there are cheaper ways to make a horse all white for the black markings to show than add chinchilla):


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And now some of my all-time favorites...

Silver black chinchilla with hom nexus (and satin):


SH Impossible

ETA: With S+ (with and without satin):


16468200


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Nacre silver black chinchilla:


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And here's a few of my own plus a link to a search with more:


CLRS14 Nacremancer


CLRS12 Puddle Jumper

With Ice 9:


3G Chin Torrent BoB

A couple chocolate brown and buckskin chin:


3G ChinChoc 16557539 BoB


3G ChinChoc 15996723

White markings are always cool to break up the base color:


3G Chin 16845014

A few with toner:


CLS3 Magic Mixing


3G Chin 16845072


3G Chin 16845069


3G Chin 17026035

Here's all my chinchillas if you'd like to browse:

https://www.huntandjump.com/adv_search.php?runsearch=go&hpp=100&color=chinchilla&owner=218079&56=0&57=0&58=0&59=0&60=0&61=0&offset=0

I've always tried to use Silver Pocket Watch herd helpers in my chinchilla lines, but it's only perfect foundation, not exceptional, if that makes a difference to you. If you want to use outside straws and eggs, you might want to breed exceptional because perfect foundations with paid genes are just a lot harder to find, in my experience.

As for whether to GMT it onto mares or stallions or both, I think it depends on how you usually breed your horses (pasture, by hand, or AI) and whether or not you have a premium upgrade and can pull eggs. And do you have the GMTs to spare to max out horses if you don't use the pasture boost? And do you mind waiting until third generation to see chinchilla showing again, since it's a recessive gene? My preference in the past was always to GMT stallions because they can produce so many more foals in a season. I figured it was the best use of the cash. Then I filled pastures with the best mares I could with the basic coat color I wanted, then cross the babies to get back to hom chinchilla again. This season I started GMTing mares for the first time as well and mass flushing eggs to make AI babies that are homozygous already. It's expensive, so I don't think I'll give up pasture breeding and switch over entirely, but it is gratifying to indulge a little and see homozygous horses in the second generation.

@MackZ, Isn't it, though! I couldn't stop staring the first time I saw that picture. I can't wait until I have it breeding true in my own lines. And I just remembered a couple other variations of it that I forgot to include before. I edited my post to add them. :)

Wow!

Silver black is my personal favorite!