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While brindle can be bred, it is very very *very* rare to do so. Think of something along the lines of every foal has a 0.001% to pop out brindle. Using brindles can increase your chance of breeding a brindle, however it's more like changing the chance to 0.005%. In 10ish months, I think I have bred....3? brindles foals, and in my opinion that is fantastic odds.

Another rare thing we have in the game as well is twins! But like brindle, rare xD

If you want to look at more easier to breed brindle appearances, check out DFP1 and DFP2. Stands for Dun Factor Promoter 1/2. Together they can create a brindle appearance to the coat with the presence of Dun.

DFP1/DFP2

Fallen Forest


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DFP2/DFP2

SH Beauty Beyond Breath

DFP2

SH So Cool In Blue

DFP1/DFP1

Dun Me Proud


FB3 Nice Poseys DFP1

Now the samples of those other genes have me confused. What part of the first stallion is brindle? I thought it was the vertical splotchy striping over his body but those others have the same splotchy striping?

Ok, so if I'm starting to understand this right, brindle is caused by having chimeric DNA with 1 gene difference? And in order for their foal to have inherited the brindle, it would have to have inherited 2 sets of DNA with 1 gene difference? Which is apparently a very low chance. But the other kind of brindle is related to the Dun gene which is what Obsidian was trying to show me? Is that right?

Chimeras are basically 2 animals (horses) in one. Which is why they have 2 sets of DNA. It is very very rare to breed a horse for since in the game (and RL) it is essentially random. Breeding from Chimeric brindles can increase your odds of a chimeric brindle foal, but increase the odds is all that they do. There is no guarantee that a chimeric brindle horse will produce a chimeric brindle foal in their breeding career. The two sets of DNA can be identical, just as long as there are two sets then the horse will be chimeric brindle. While it is not impossible to breed chimeric brindle, it will be essentially impossible to have a line of horses that are ONLY chimeric brindle as you will produce so little of them the line is likely to die out, especially if you use BA/SBA

Chimeric brindle does not only have the stripes as well, sometimes they have splotches, like these.


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Pony BN

I shared the Dun brindles in case you wanted a way to breed a line of brindle-looking horses, which you seem to want to. My apologies if it caused confusion.

Ok, so if I'm starting to understand this right, brindle is caused by having chimeric DNA with 1 gene difference?

Just to be clear, having two sets of dna with different color genes is one way that brindle stripes can be produced. There are two ways in the game. :)