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I'm pretty sure only Ammit knows for sure, but I seem to have the numbers 100 and 50 lodged in my head someplace. That is, if you breed one brindle to a non-brindle, you have a 1 in 100 chance of passing on the mutation. If you breed two brindles together, the chance is 1 in 50.

Keep in mind that the way the math works, you're not guaranteed 1 in 100, or 1 in 50. It means if you do one breeding, you roll a die: if it comes up a 1, you get a brindle, if it's a 2 to 50 or 100, then it's not. Then when you do the next breeding, your chances reset to 1 in 100, or 1 in 50.

This is why people really don't breed for it. WAY too much randomness involved.

Pretty sure non brindle x non brindle has a .05% change, and any brindle parent doubles that to .1%? I think this was talked about like 7 years ago so I might be very wrong, but I know it's a teeny tiny percent chance.

So crossing brindles to each other pretty much doubles the odds, correct? Again, I know we are talking huge long shots, but I was trying to decide if breeding them together would increase the ratio infinitesimally or significantly. Thanks!

Does anybody know if horses from brindle parents have any inclination towards producing brindled offspring? Or does the gene drop off?

Okay, thanks! Now, do you know if some brindles can have higher chances of producing brindle foals? I've seen some brindles with tons of offspring and no brindle kids, but also there have been some sires who have produced more than their fair share. Is that just by luck, or do some brindles like to produce it more than others?