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Has no effect on horses in the game, if they are too inbreed I don't particularly like it, just personal preference, but same grandsire certainly wouldn't bother me

The thought of inbreeding is very odd. Interesting that it doesn't effect the game.

A very nice read in general.

I dogs they inbreed father and daughter/mother and son combos to weed out any issues. It's known as line breeding in the dog industry. People say too much can cause issues but that it is actually ok and can make your lines stronger if done right.

I have seen a ton of breeders do this and their lines were fine. They don't do it every time just ones or twice in the animals whole lineage. Overdone it can be bad. While I would never do this and my breeder I bought from doesn't do this there are big show breeders that do.

This year I already had triplet goat kids born where I bred a daughter of my senior buck to his grandson. (dam was the half sister of the bucks mother) Also have a doe due soon who is a full sister to the mother of that buck. (dam is a full sister of the bucks mother). I won't back cross any more on that line then grandsire and grandam twice but I am expecting really exceptional kids from that cross.

Now my ducks are the most inbred things ever. Starting pair where siblings, a son of that cross went back to the orginal hen, a son of THAT cross went back to the orginal hen again. Now I have three hatch mate siblings as a breeding trio. I did the back crossing to isolate a pale feather color gene to make plucking them easier.

I think to be fair, it will happen all the time in nature and it makes sense - I suspect that people's views (prob mine included) have been heavily influenced by years of religious beliefs, which probably have no base in fact at all! :)

Haha I don't either I just know good Dane and GSD breeders who do. My Danes aren't inbred at all but I've seen it

My mom got this really gorgeous blue eyed nigerian buck once from someone who pulled over and asked her if she wanted him. To put it simply, we were really excited, and bred all our does to him despite the fact that we had all standard does at the time. I kept a doe kid from one of my does, and among various kids Mom kept a buck kid to breed back to some of her non related standard does. A little later on, that buckling Mom kept jumped the fence, and out of thirty goats out there I think you can guess which one got pregnant. I was mad, though honestly, I was so concerned about the fact that she was on the young side and was due to kid when no one would be home that I really don't know how much the kids being inbred even registered. Doe kidded well, two healthy buck kids. One had blue eyes like his parents and grandfather. We banded them though because their mother shows an undesirable receive trait, and we don't want to send known carriers as bucks. Now that is the thing with inbreeding, even though they passed the blue eyes, better feed efficiency and flashy colors; since their mom had two copies of an undesirable gene, the father had to have a 50/50 chance of getting it too from the shared grandfather and giving it to the kids. This was very risky with a goal of breeding that trait out of my doe's descendants while keeping the many positive traits she has over my other does... but neither of the kids showed the trait, nor any of the other kids the "buckling" has produced, and since we know all of the doe's kids get one copy from her, this breeding helps us lean towards the hope that the buckling didn't even get the gene, and so he can be useful in breeding that trait out of our herd. Now we have been getting kids with this undesirable trait from this doe from completely unrelated bucks, and Mom has used looking at her kids to screen out which bucks to get rid of for being carriers. Now, if you had goats that did't have that gene and bred them, that would get rid of the chance of getting the bad trait in the herd at all, but knowing if your herd doesn't have it is hard. We thought our herd didn't have the gene until my doeling was born, revealing two carriers.

I'm not saying yay or nay to inbreeding in real life. In game it doesn't do anything except possibly pass undesirable colors or keep colors you want. Many GP, KP, and some satin horses in the game are inbred to get the recessives to show, I imagine that is happening with snowflake as well. In real life it has advantages and disadvantages. It really depends on your goal with that breeding (to test genetics or keep breeding stock), the genes that line has, and how strict you are ready to cull. I personally try to avoid inbreeding in real life, though accidents happen. In game world I usually put two stallions in a pasture with a bunch of mares not looking at who is who's mother/father, and some inbreeding happens, but a lot of genetic diversity happens as well.

I always thought it was interesting in sci fi movies/ futuristic books how they were always worried about having a large enough gene pool for colonies. It was a problem if they had less than a hundred. However I would guess in that case if they had too similar genetics a single disease could wipeout everyone. Not even mentioning birth defects. Reminds me of a Star Trek the next generation episode. And Enders game the later books