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I love the coloring of the first mare. :x

Try to find a PF or expro mare, that would be your best bet!(It was for me, but then again I gave the same info to Oak and her foal was snipped.Also make sure it papers yellow and is a foundie!)

Yes I used a PF my little gem

Miss Magic Milestone 2G

I went with a solid colored mare to be safe

@OakCreek13, most of the potential lethal crosses occur when the foal's Kit mutation load is too high for it to survive. The only Kit genes that are always totally safe to combine with any other Kit genes are Tobiano and roan. The Kit genes Mr. Milestone has are w3 and w10, so the only completely safe Kit genes to cross with him are roan, Tobiano, w20, and sabino 2. All the others have a potential chance at a dead foal.

The only other non Kit related lethal crosses are hom frame (not possible in this case since Milestone doesn't have frame), hom Splash 3, hom Splash 2 (not possible here either), or het Splash 3 het Splash 2. There are only a few foundations that have Splash 2 or Splash 3 since those genes are GMT only. There are lots of very flashy mares you can safely breed to Mr. Milestone. A mare with Tobiano, Rabicano, Appaloosa, ordinary splash, splash M, and frame would be safe to breed to Milestone even though she'd have a ridiculous amount of patterns because none of those genes are lethal when combined with Milestone's genes. On the other hand, a mare that has only white 1 and no other patterns doesn't look very flashy, but breeding her to Milestone would be a really bad idea since white 1 is highly lethal when combined with almost all other Kit genes.

@OakCreek13, you did everything you could to increase your chances of an intact foal, but there's random luck involved too. And breeding with straws or by hand will usually give you a lot more altered foals than pasture breeding since you don't get a pasture bonus. Breeding horses with the same level of breeding ability together will increase your chance of getting an intact foal, but there's nothing you can do to guarantee one. You can minimize your chances of an altered foal but you can never eliminate them completely. The only horses that are guaranteed to pass breeding advice are perfect foundations, exceptionally perfect foundations, and all RS horses.