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Bluchrystals - 247338 - 50k

@bravo25 you can only tell if a horse is homozygous snowflake with an appy (Lp) gene.
Hetero cannot be seen by the eye, you're correct about that.

What I did is that I bred her to a homozygous snowflake stud to 'test' her, and she gave me this foal:

MS 289343ruehjty hSF

As you can see from the eye it is a homozygous snowflake, and it could be entered in the Snowflake Breeders Club (only homozygous Snowflakes are egible for that club).
So as this foal is a homozygous Snowflake, that means that mom is a snowflake carrier!
That's how I found out.

Even horses without Appy genes can be snowflake carriers, like this mare:

MSH Truth Day SF SNOWFL $
She's just a plain chestnut but if you look at her foals you'll see she produced multiple homo snowflake foals with Snowflake appy studs!

So therefore we call Snowflake a 'hidden' gene, it is only visible when it is homozygous and with an appy gene. Same for Kit Promotor (KP), it needs to be homozygous and with 2 KIT genes (Roan, Tobiano, Whites, Sabinos for example) to show. Hetero KP or homo KP without 2kit genes won't show. Gulastra Plume (GP) is another hidden gene, only visible when it is homozygous and on E horses with an agouti gene (A, At, A+).


And @Bluchrystals thank you for your bid! :)

Johara - 143376 - 60k

A little under 2 hours left!

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Bluchrystals, congratulations on winning!

I'll put her up in your chat for you :)

Oh and do you want me to yumm the foal so you can GMT her?

Haha I don't mind it!

I've yummed the foal, but it might be a couple minutes or maybe even hours untill she is removed from the game tho, not sure how fast that goes.
Goodluck with her, I hope she gives you many snowflake foals! :)