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Looking up specific combinations is why we have the search. There are probably thousands of unique combinations of genes so a page like that would be very unwieldy anyways.

HiddenGenetics, I think that is what you can do with the search as a preview- maybe not on the exact same horses but you can get an idea of what certain gene combos would look like.

With chinchilla, you could take a horse you have the base genetics for.. for example..

Suppose I want to do a silver brown chinchilla project but don't know how that base would look then how it would react with chinchilla. I would then go to the search page and set parameters for a E_ AtAt or Ata (because A/A+ are dominant and would override). I would also select "Show at least one copy of silver (Z)" and 2 copies of Sooty or Sooty plus because I know I don't want any of my horses without sooty.


Onylus

Okay I like that base color! Let's see what happens if I put chinchilla on this kind of base- add chinchilla to my search parameters.


2G SlvrBrwnchnchn A

And wah'la! A before and after of the same basic color. I think part of it is just playing with the search parameters and experimenting with a base color you like and adding different stuff to it to see what happens. That is how I learned to navigate through the search and decide on my lines. It does help to have a basic understanding of the base colors and what the modifiers are/do to the base coats then you can build off of these. That is what the genetics guide is for and I can tag you in a few GREAT posts that talk about the different colors/spotting patterns and what they look like if you want. You could then use those as springboards for your project ideas and add/subtract different genes in the search to get an idea of whether you like it or not.

That's a great idea @TheBlueMoors! I'd never thought of doing that, but it would work. I don't have a great grip on the base colors yet but I can use horses I like as examples and learn.

@Cheers that was so hecking helpful omg