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Can someone explain brindle genetics to me?
  • Hello everyone. I am a little dumb. I accidentally bred a brindle foal this season. I was under the impression that brindle wasn't a color you could pass genetically. I have been trying to figure out what genes made this colt and how would it be possible to recreate this in the future. Sorry if this is a stupid question.

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  • My understanding is that brindle is pretty random! It's a mutation, so it doesn't get passed down like most genes. I've heard that a foal of brindle parents is slightly more likely to be brindle, but it's still a fairly rare occurrence!

    Congrats on your beautiful brindle boy! You got lucky 8->
  • in real life brindle is not genetic. Its a mutation that occurs when two foals "fuse" in utero instead of being born as twins. For game play purposes, having one or two brindle parents very slightly increases your chance for a brindle foal but not by much. Breeding brindles is almost an impossible goal since it is still a rare occurrence. But for future brindle foals, to increase your chances, use a brindle stud in the pasture. I find that 99% of my brindle foals come from one of my brindle studs in one of my pastures. I've only ever handbred one brindle in my 3 years playing and that was on server 1 :)
  • I was just reading something the other day about heritable brindle being identified in a particular family of Quarter Horses. Have to dig and see if I can find anything to back that up. I love brindles and would love to breed more of them!
    I did get one Brindle from handbreeding, both parents were also brindle.
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  • Thanks everyone for the really interesting information. The dam of this colt is the brindle parent (from a better brindle breakout HH) while the father is a vault of stars HH stud. This was definitely a surprise because i've bred her before and just got solids!

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