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I have a stallion I would like to start with, but I’m wondering whether it’s worth adding genes to him, or if I can find something better

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I’d like to get a mare and a stallion ready for the same season. I’m torn between the ice and the galaxy looking one on sales at the moment, so if anyone has this combo already, that would be awesome to see.
Thankyou for any help :)

This is the closest I could get to your boy with homozygous nexus, I could not find one with roan.


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And this is the closest I could find to what your boy would look like with both


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There are no “wrong” colours to add ice or nexus to they both show in all coats and don’t need special genes to correctly interact with to show (nexus does have different looks between het. and homo)

Personally I breed grullos with white patterns.

When I start a new line or go to replace a stud I start to look for EE DD studs (I’ve recently started to cull Ee or Dd lines studs in an attempt to reduce non-grullo cull rates) splash and rabicano and at least 1 kit genes are pluses for me

Then I look at my list of white patterns I am currently loving. I compare the list and remove any kit genes I already have on a foundation (unless it’s the one I’m replacing) and write down the gmt costs to add each of the remaining genes. I remove any that go over my available gmt token amount. Then I typically pick 2 kit genes especially on hj1 where I breed KP.

If your not sure what a gene does or how it interacts with other genes go look it up in the search. You can put your horses entire genetics in and change different genes one at a time to see how the picture is affected.


GMTing gets extremely expensive, extremely quick if you don’t know exactly what your looking for


Also when using real money to add genes I always go for 2 studs rather than a stud and mare. While crossing foundation special gened mare and stud is nice you get way more bang for your buck on a stud who can cover 50 mares and unlimited straws per season while a mare is restricted to 14-20 foals per season if you dont stick her in a pasture and breed her before pulling eggs. And you then have a wider base of foundations to match descendants from if you don’t like inbreeding.

There is a herd Helper, True Breeding Blue Roan, and there are Blue Roan Appaloosa herd helpers if you really like the blue roan appy look. You could always use the boy you have now for the special genes, and get a whole slew of mare from one of those herd helpers. That way there are good chances you could avoid the possible lethal kit interactions of the KitW gene by picking a colt that does not carry it, and mares that do in your second gen.

If you have a lined horse, like the one below, that does not have a parent that carried the KitM gene, you may not take off the Tobiano and add KitM. One of the parent horses must have the gene in order to swap it.


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Now with a foundation horse, you may add whatever you want. The example below, you could either remove the Tobiano and add KitM, or just add KitM onto the allele that does not have a kit gene. You will, however, have to pay full price to add KitM onto a foundation, and that is very expensive (40 GMT tokens each).


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Can I add Sb2 to this horse without taking away a Sb1?

Ok coolbeans thank you!