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What is the risk of this one? I'm interested in what interesting colors or patterns will show up.


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I would like two straws please! ID 28718

I'd love to sneak 10 straws from you, if you don't mind! Such a handsome boy, hopefully he sticks around for a while longer!

Got ten, thank you! :)

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Got them

I would love 5, please! #2708

may I have 5 please?-#21753

Could I get 5 straws please :)
Oops Aron account ! The account I’d like 5 straws on is SmokeyRiver- ID; 43712

Thank you!

@squeakerblue There is only a 50% chance at a lethal foal with that mare, so you could still get a live foal. If you bred the two 4 times, I would expect 2 live foals, depending on how lucky you get. Personally, I don't breed pairs with 50% or high chance of lethality, but there is still a 50% chance at a live foal if you wanted to chance it.

@Haltanny don’t the splash genes also increase the white factor, potentially leading to a lethal risk greater than 50%?

I know white factor varies from one foal to the next even with the same parents, so there’s no easy rule to follow, as it’s a range. If we were JUST looking at Frame, yes, that cross is 50% fatal, 50% live foal, but stacking splash increases the risk of fatality. Did I understand that correctly? Please correct me if I’m wrong, as I am still learning white factor and risky genes.

Having said that: on a personal level, @squeakerblue, I would totally take the risk, knowing my odds of a live foal were low. I am REALLY lazy with breeding lethal genes. “This is a terrible cross! Let’s do it!” (Thirty minutes later... )

My philosophy is: this is a digital horse, not a real one, so let’s see what happens. My barn is big enough to absorb the loss of a few foals each year from me making risky decisions. I asked for Conversation Hearts from Secret Santa. These mares were not pastured this month, so it’s no big deal other than a hit to my bank account. (This is where my brain gears slowly start turning.)

Sooo... I did an experiment, and used a Lucky Day straw on all my breedable Conversation Hearts mares. Disclaimer: PLEASE NOTE MY SAMPLE SIZE. It is ONLY five mares. This is an experiment of curiosity only, and should not be a take-home lesson of how genetics are mathematically SUPPOSED to work, but rather, how they MIGHT turn out in ONE test.


Mare One: This foal carried an excessive burden of white mutations causing it not to survive. Ironically enough, this was the mare wearing the least amount of chrome:
RS Conversation Hearts

Well, that’s not off to a great start!

However... some Days are just Lucky ; )

Mare Two: A bay filly
Got Lucky Today G2
Mare Three: A colt
Luck of the Straw G2
Mare Four: Another colt
That Was A Close One G2 These boys (3 and 4) are both HOM Splash. He and his brother scraped by. I would expect either of THEIR foals from white factor crosses to be more likely to die than their bay sister’s, due to increased white factor on the boys. I wish we could still see the numbers that were temporarily viewable last year, so I could know just how close these boys got to fatal.

Mare Five: A gelded colt
Texas Luck G2


Moral of the story: At the end of the day, when our sample size is too small to yield scientifically meaningful results... punnett squares laugh at us. My experiment did not yield the results I expected, but I did get four cute foals : P

SmokeyRiver and duelinghawks, your straws have been sent : )

He is absolutely gorgeous.
Could I please have 10 straws. My id is 19118. Thankyou!