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That is his sire. To be homozygous appy what am I missing?

Ok because I was looking and I was like he has the same pattern so what am I missing. I would like a snowflake. Maybe I will get lucky.

Is there away for me to breed for it or would I have to breed to a homozygous snowflake and is that even possible with the snowflake.

@best_friend Your odds of randomly breeding a snowflake (SnSn Lp) are extremely low. It may be created randomly like DP, but unlike DP it's invisible when heterozygous (and I've never seen a randomly created black chestnut). So if you create 30 foundation appaloosas, one may be a carrier (Snsn), but how will you find out which one that is? Test breeding without a homozygous (SnSn) stallion is almost implausible. If I were you I'd plan on buying the gene this christmas - that's what I plan to do!

This is what snowflake looks like on a foal - it's not obvious at first, but there are tiny white flecks that get progressively larger as the horse ages. And he happens to not carry PATN at all.



It's noticeably different form the color you sometimes from roan,



Or regular varnish marks. This filly will likely turn lighter and lighter from varnish, but it looks more like light, irregular roaning than the distinct white flecks from snowflake.

Just a heads up a horse has to have Appaloosa AND be homozygous for snowflake (2 copies of the snowflake gene for it to show. So if you buy it make sure you buy two copies and put it on an Appaloosa horse.

The patn gene controls the blanket size of your appaloosas.