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I have appaloosas that are slow to varnish out, and others that completely varnish out, but I don't know what the difference is. I think it's something hidden.

@Forestshadow: I also think there are some hidden genetics at play, and I have probably used super fast varnishing horses to create my line, because most of my horses are more or less completly white by the age of 10.

The problem is that there is no way to know how fast a foundation will varnish until the horse ages up, and by then I have spent hundreds of real life dollars (and also hajibucks) on adding genes like Snowflake, DP, St+, Satin, KitM, all the sabinos etc on them, and bred them. If there was a way to change the speed of varnish, like we can with WF, height or bone weight, it would be fantastic! Or maybe even a semi-realistic fantasy gene, that prevents varnishing from happening at all, so that we can enjoy the beautiful artwork longer, and have more fun breeding :)

When snowflake is for sale in the RGS, i noticed that some horses i want to add it to have Vrn or V on the strand that snowflake goes on. Since snowflake is a form of varnish, it makes sense that Vrn stands for varnish and V is recessive varnish. So maybe making the Varnish gene GMTable might help? Maybe horses that are VV versus VrnVrn or VrnV don't varnish at all or at the very least, very little.

@HayesStable I’d love to see what happens with your experiment, especially because Snowflake is one of my favourite genes. I get the feeling you may be onto something :)

sooo I had to go look for myself so here are some of my foundations I have added snowflake to for example. I would love if there was a way to slow varnishing

My Stud went from VV to VSNVSN

CoatOfCrownsKPSF
This lady went from VV to VSNVSN

KissTomorrowGoodbyeKPSF
This lady went from VVRN to VSNVSN

LuckyOrNotKPSF
This lady went from VRNVRN to VSNVSN

LuckOfTheDrawSFBR

I know for sure Snowflake will varnish out no matter what because its an "extreme" version of the varnish gene. Here is how i am guessing it works:

Going from quickest to slowest "white out":
1 Hom Snowflake VsnVsn
2 Hom Varnish VrnVrn
3 Het Snowflake Het Varnish VsnVrn
4 Het Snowflake VsnV or VVsn
5 Het Varnish VrnV or VVrn
6 Recessive Varnish/Snowflake VV

This is what i am aiming to test on the other server. I have multiple horses to represent each category and will follow their progress each season. If you are all interested, i can create a chat room to keep up to date with the progress of these horses. I plan on saving new images each season to see the progress of the varnishing.

Ok so i am quickly working on a solution to the above problem but I at least have the other horses ready to go! I will go ahead and make a chat room for those interested in following the progress over the next few seasons!

Thank you for doing all the hard work, @HayesStable.

No problem! I am actually really excited to see the results! It will take a while since the varnishing only happens monthly (i believe) but it will definitely be worth it! And i might have someone willing to help me out with my snowflake dilemma so fingers crossed!

Is there a way to find out how fast a horse will varnish before he is old?

Thank you, Ammit.