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Can you post them here? They might have both lucked into a copy of Pearl from creation! It's rare but it happens!❤

Yep! Because they have at least 1 copy of Pearl, that's what you are searching for in the search engine and they pop up too. Any horse that has just 1 copy of it will show up. Hope that helps!❤

they are Chimera's or brindle's ; if you UNCHECK the Brindle bar they will fall off your search
you can also change the set of DNA the pearl gene is on to 100% ( so they always pass it )
or 0 ( so they NEVER pass it ) on to the offspring ; the " change DNA " is on the very very bottom of you GMT page and will NOT show up until you choose to Modify the horse

paper the mare ; its MUCH faster than waiting 3 months ; if the mare doesn't paper up from her momma she isn't worth breeding ; foundies will be yellow ( normal ) or red ( Ex Pro ) , if the baby isn't red on 2nd gen DONT breed her if they aren't blue by 4th gen DONT breed them

Anni, thank you so much for putting the breeding program in a nutshell. White Valley, thank you for the explanation of how to shorten the time and breed efficiently.

Wolvevenfrost, thank you for telling me the genetics of the plan and how to get started.

I do still have a question, however. Where does the second pair of genes come from? The mare, the stallion, a mixture of both, out of thin air? Also, I'm trying to visualize it as a strand the same way the first set is a strand, is that how it works? And how does it "fit" to the first pairs? (I'm not sure I'm phrasing my question right, you may have to guess what I mean. I'm asking about the mechanics of it, I guess - how it is made and how it fits?)

Where a horse has the second set of genes, is it possible to switch them to the 1st pair? especially when a gene has hte little minus sign, or it says the parent doesn't have the right gene you want to switch? (E/- for example)
I'm presuming the first set of genes is what is on the horse, is the second set just invisible?

The way to think about chimeras in a simpler way is to just see them as two horses sharing one body. The stripes or patches are because you're seeing evidence of both sets of genetics. So when a chimera has a foal, the foal will get one set of genes from one parent, and one set from the chimeric parent, but it's a gamble as to WHICH half of the chimeric parent donates genes. It's almost like breeding a mare to two stallions and one of them catching and actually turning into a pregnancy. So each set acts like a whole horse.

If you take my horse here, basically, when I breed her, she'll EITHER act like a silver black, or a black horse with kit genes. So say I breed to her to a black stallion. If the set of genes with silver gets used, the foal will be silver black, and only the genes in that set will get used. Silver, but no kit M. If the black set of genes gets used (basically in a coin toss), the foal will possibly get kit M, but will definitely be black with no silver.


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The second set of genes is in some cases a twin that was absorbed. There are other cases as well, and chimerism is super complicated, but for simplicity's sake, brindles are just their own twins. Sometimes the gene sets are the same, sometimes they're different, based on how different sperm interacted with different eggs.

You're basically throwing two horses in one at the horse you're breeding them with and seeing which horse steps up to generically contribute.

Yes, I did understand all of this. I didn't even know about "tw all have done a great job of making sure I would understand. Thanks ever so much." in one body. And I've drooled all over my keyboard at that horse.