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I think the faint white flecks he's showing are varnish in action.

To show snowflake, a horse must be at least heterozygous Appaloosa and have 2 copies of the hidden snowflake gene, one from the sire and one from the dam. The white spots are usually brighter than his, and will enlarge as the horse ages.

There isn't any visible snowflake in any of his ancestors, although any of those horses might be carrying it heterozygously. Heterozygous snowflake can occur in any created horse, even non-appaloosas and be hidden. You find out about it when that horse is crossed with one that passes on both Llp and snowflake and passes on it's hidden snowflake to the foal.

He's just a varnish horse I'm afraid. Snowflake are pretty well defined, even as babies.


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Like all appaloosas they do eventually white out.


I Lucked Out

Some are harder to see though, like these two;

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III Magic Fiend

And you need appaloosa to be present to express it. This guy is a hom snowflake, but you'd never know.


II Wolf Wedding

To have a horse with snowflake you need them to be appaloosa, and have two copies of the gene. Without two copies you just have a carrier and you don't have little flecks like the first horse I posted. It can be randomly generated on foundation horses, so theoretically you could have a hom snowflake horse but without the appaloosa gene you'd never know.