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I only like ND1 on DP buckskins, bays, and browns. The dapples stand out really well that way. I don't like warmbloods myself, they look like the dimensions are off slightly. Maybe not but it's the way my eye picks up the sizes. Drafts and riding horses are my thing. I've got a Celestial herd(all axioms and wrong warp), gold champagnes(mostly appaloosa), liver, silver black chinchilla, and a silver bay snowflake line. Gold champagne doesn't seem to be too popular. Liver and silver black are hotcakes :)) Not real fond of the Ice genes and Thunderstruck.

I love Liver and Chocolate but I’m also working on a Grey Line lol I love dappled greys in real life and I feel like they don’t get a lot of love here

@Nikkel666 I think grey gets the short end for the same reason people don't like varnish- before long you lose the color and it's just a white horse! I'm with you @Peachtree , I don't like varnish either, for that reason! I'm starting a new pearl/kp line and I'm keeping app out of it completely, even though it's one of my favs, so I don't lose my kp's patches as they age!

@LenasHollywood , I get you on the opposites! I want livers as dark as possible, and also pearls and champs, lol.

@blu , I was actually thinking gold seemed like the most popular of the champagnes! I prefer sables and classics.

I really don't like ice either, or white 8. And Wrong Warp kinda freaks me out? It seems... well, wrong!

The warmbloods don't seem disproportionate to me, they just look like quarter horses. I suppose they're off as compared to a Dutch Warmblood or something, but they look like pretty much every quarter horse on every farm in this part of the country! But I prefer hot or cold blooded horses in real life as well.

@Natalya, maybe it's that people don't show them off as much?

I feel like I'm the only person in the game who doesn't like liver! I breed almost exclusively buckskin appaloosa. I feel like liver is one of the most boring colors but everyone seems to love it! I feel crazy.

I also don't care for warmbloods and especially not riding horses. I just think riding horses' heads look really weird. I will take a few warmbloods here and there but I mostly breed draft.

I think sooty and dp are cool and all, but maybe not up to all the hype. I love the way buckskin can come in so many shades and variations, so that's why I play with it. I haven't found many others who breed a lot of buckies. Right now, I'm super into snowflake, but that's a pretty popular opinion :P

Also, I don't really care for any of the ice genes! I like colors and patterns that mimic real life, and ice just doesn't do it for me. I don't think I would ever spend money on it.

I hate plaid, I can't believe I forgot that one!

So as far as loves S+, sooty, sabino 1 & 2, splash, frame, roan, rabicano, most
Kit genes, lol, and my newly discovered KP, lol. Oh, and nexus. I'd seriously considered a black rabicano/roan nexus line.

Dislikes/hates is appy. I have a few but unless it's a color/pattern that strikes me I just don't like it. I feel the same with RL appys too ( my barrel racer would bite me for saying that, lol. She was a leopard appy. Rip Dusty.).

Give or takes depending on the colors is some ice, watercolors, wrongwraps, plaids.

Don't have a fav or like/dislike with sizes. I've owned/showed/competed/trained on everything in RL from POA, Arab, AQHA, APHA, WB, TB, to draft crosses who looked pure draft with half the floof lol. Still have an Arab (14.2hh) , APHA (15.1hh) and APHA/TB (16.1hh).

It is cool how much variation there is, even for what I'd say are the most popular genes!

There really is a color for everyone here on HAJ :)

Hmm I'm not sure if these are unpopular opinions or not, but..

I started out only liking drafts, but recently I have come to appreciate all of the builds on here. I wasn't very fond of the warmbloods but now I have a few foals from my draft x riding horse crosses and I have come to like them.

I absolutely adore blue roan horses. I also love any cream horses. Perlino is gorgeous imo. I also love sable and liver.

Oh and brindle. I love the brindle marking.

@Humboldt, Imma PM you about Morgans because I want to talk about that but not clutter up this thread lol

I don’t care for the fantasy genes. I like realism. I’m also finding that I’m not a fan of champagne.

I am loving DP on everything, though.

In this game, the genes I least like are gray and tobiano. I just feel that they are so outdated compared to all the other genes that have been updated. They're not dynamic.

IRL I love the dark greys that take several years to fade. Here, we don't have the slow fading greys.

I don't like the riding horses but love Drafts and also like Warmbloods. For some reason I don't like tobiano or the way roan shows on most horses, but I do like rabicano. I used to like silver blacks until Ammit changed to the current colour palette and now I don't really like the way they look. On the other hand, when the new colour palette came in, I love the variety in the way the bay horses express the gene. I like dun and nd1. Initially I wasn't a fan of the fantasy genes but I now have some of the open Ice genes and also the nacre.

This just shows that the game caters for all tastes and that, if you play the game long enough, it will cater to your personal changing preferences too. =D>

I'm not a big fan of appaloosa, including snowflake anymore. Reasons are their foal pic take forever to load when breeding, and they loose their shiny when they get older. Also, champagne is not a favourite

I loooove KP, DP, chinchilla and mushroom. Then I add in alittle of everything patternwise and fantasywise.

@paradoxphoenix Yup :-)) I love that appaloosa is dynamic, but I just aint got time for that. lol

I personally don’t like bay horses in real life. Everyone loves them in the QH world. I love my little Dun QH!
In the game I don’t really care for greys and I don’t like “spotted”

I don’t dislike colours I just don’t understand the hype about livers and snowflakes.

I breed grullos with white patterns topped with KP, axiom, Nexus and/or plaid.

I find it difficult to buy outside grullos without altering them accidentally for not meeting my breeding requirements or for them to be bred evenly with all grullo pedigrees

I’m with you bandit and Forest. I’ll only sell superior colts, breed evenly, and run everything through SBA!

I've steered away from all the Ice, I did have them when I first started ... but room constants made me focus more on what I wanted and therefore the Ice went away. I didn't really like the Nexus and nor the watercolor (actually none of the fantasy genes in that way made me want to wipe out my credit card). The Splash M and Mushroom I really liked, not a huge fan of the Chinchilla. I am not a huge fan of the White except for the 10, 8 and M. Bay tends to come out of everywhere... so I tend to avoid that. Also not a huge fan of anything on my Lp but Lp, you will also note I have no tobiano that is actively being bred and if one slips in, its spayed or gelded. Other than that its all about the chrome or the flake.

As I said i have Splash M and Mushroom, which I am in the process of combining into one line, as they haven't seen much of the love from me and when my Splash M boy passed away i realized that I was loosing them. With them being restricted I wanted to keep them out of the main barns so i wouldn't whoops and I knew where they were.

Snowflake, I am all about the snowflake. I fell for that and it so suited my breeding program. The goal was black with Lp, just Lp ... but sort drifted away. I'm also about the black, I do have liver ... but mostly go for the black (I may have mentioned that once or twice lol). Black Brindle has always been my fav and covet Bring Back the Sun mares. I blame Stauffie for that, she gave me my first Bring Back the Sun mare that was GTM'd with Lp ... foundation mare of her own breeding program, that sorta got way laid and I no longer have any of her foals, but she still started it all. I love how I can open on of the Lps pages and realize that they have changed. I have watched a black go from black to white as they age in the game. I totally appreciate that little feature.

My Chrome lines support W10,W8, Wm + KP, Sb1 and Sb2 and in some of them I have it all. Black Sabino2 is my fav, and I got really lucky with Op's lines (which are getting old and I'm starting to panic to find another) and making sure I still have his line cause he was my fav stud as I whoops with my favorite Bring Back the Sun mare and lost hers. I also got a huge hand up from Visions as I worked my Kp lines and have a far amount of older lines there too.

Satin was a huge undertaking for me in the beginning and had to do some serious saving up for my own foundation stallion. I had the hugest of hands up from the already established satin breeders, so I tend to have some of the older lines of satin. The goal was black satin with just Lp, but that sorta got waylaid as i built up my breeding ... now I have two sets ... the chrome satin and the Lp satin. Right now introducing Nd1 and Snowflake into those lines and soon tiger eye. (LOVE the new Anniversary RS ... My favorite so far)

I don't do Draft and if I can I'll GMT that draft right off there, when breeding to outside studs or mares I'll find my thinnest riding horse body so that I can tone it down to a Warmblood. I am slowly getting my older lines into their riding horse bodies. I don't boost unless I really have too. I'll use boosted lines, but the Expro HH work just as well for me. I have passed up perfect studs because they were boosted, its just to hard sometimes to get them to pass strict and Sup to sire. AI hates me and takes all the pretties it seems, so I try to avoid that as well. I have collected from my own, just so in later time I still have the line (learned that one from the BBtS mare)

Everything is run through strict and I don't keep studs unless they sup to sire ... (hence the boosting if they are a breeding I can't get again). So its not really a colour I dislike ... more a pattern and size sort of thing ... and not really a dislike; if it fits into the program or at some time I can breed it to fit in the program then I'm good. I recently started with some white 3 popping up, which I am working on holding onto the line but breeding out the W3. Kinda see it as a challenge (except Tob... that just gets gelded/spayed ... not working with that one, so i guess thats a dislike lol)

And I see I novelized this post so I am quietly going to exit stage left ... sorry for the ramble ...