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So if I bred the mare again with a stallion that had two recessive a genes (aa), would it come out Grullo again? I'm only just starting to remember the terminology and this is beyond my GCSE knowledge haha

Using the search engine is very helpful for learning the gene codes. if you limit your search to only horses with appaloosa [lp] then you can see the code of the colours you like and try to produce that code in your barn.
The people here are really great, so ask many questions in the forum :)

No sorry, i was trying to glance at horses and chase kids around while getting over mono. You are right, the dam will always pass on the E and D. However, the foal could wind up a brown dun if the foal gets the copy of At, or a grullo if they get the copy of a.

Brindle is a mutation and is not exactly inheritable. You could breed on here for several real life years and only breed one or two brindle foals. Having one parent ups the chances of a brindle foal slightly, by like 1% maybe. But it’s still possible to get a brindle foal when there are no brindle horses in the pedigree at all.

It varies. The mare would definitely be worth something, Yule Logs are always in demand. Some people hoard brindles and breed them just in hopes for a brindle foal.

Were the stallion and mares equal breeding quality? Meaning, was it a foundation stallion to foundation mares, or was it a higher quality stallion (lined) to foundation mares? If it was a foundation stallion to foundation mares, it just means you had a run of bad luck and try again next season. If it was a higher quality stallion to lower quality mares, then it’s normal.

Yes, all were foundation horses. Does it matter that some are exceptional ones like exceptional producers and exceptionally perfect?

Okay, thankyou. I think that is about as much as my brain can take in today. I bought the account upgrade as it worked out to be about £1.80 so I have the notes on the home screen. Been slowly writing down things that I don't understand on there, so will probably be asking more questions from now on :)

Okay, I think I am in there. Thankyou so much for your help :)

Okay, I have the meadow that two stallions go in, so at the moment all my mares that I want to breed from are in there and I'll add my favorite two stallions next month (everything has already bred this month)

Your best chance at intact foals is generally going to be matching papers (which exceptionals are a higher paper (B/red) than regular foundies (C/yellow)). While matching generations tends to help ensure paper matching, it’s not always going to work, especially if one side of the pedigree advanced faster than the others.

Now, because breeding symmetrical pedigrees is seen as superior by part of the population here, you’ll have a bigger market for your foals if you match generations, but if all you care about is making sure the most foals pass, then you’ll want to pay attention to paper more than to generations (so pairing a second generation B papered stud out of a yellow/C pairing with a red papered exceptionally perfect mare should have a better chance of an intact foal than pairing a regular C foundation stud with that ExPerf mare). If you want the best of both workds, so to speak, you’ll want to match paper and generation together to give yourself the biggest market.

Then again, keep in mind that selling foals isn’t your main income here anyways - show ponies are. Selling foals is a nice little bit of bonus cash, but show horses are your main income and are how you’re gonna get rich here. So don’t stress too much about snipped foals - just keep them and admire them in your show herd, and watch the hbs roll in :D