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Gen 3 yielded some amazing horses, including my studs...

O3 Smoke in the Air

and

O3 Smoky Quartz

I ended up with mares such as...

O3 2184755

O3 2028097

O3 2028098

O3 2097410

While most of them were the goal phenotype, a lot of them were heterozygous for most of the goal genes, and Smoke in the Air did not have Cream at all, but he was so superior to everyone that I gmt'd him to work for my herd.
After several test breedings, I determined that Smoky Quartz produced better foals, and he became the leading herd sire.

Oh I LOVE this project! Absolutely gorgeous :x

He's pretty! I don't usually see them without roan.

What is the difference between silver smoky black and silver smoky blue?

From the horses I have, I'm not quite sure what gene it is that makes black vs. blue

@SummerMonarch I might not update it every month, but I for sure will with each generation.

Also, all of the stallions in this thread are available for straws and public breeding. I forgot to mention that earlier.

2080484
I played around in search and found this mare who has all of my goal genes but cream, but also has nd1.
Nd1 only lightens the coat a little, and doesn't give the underline color change I am looking for. I know that my goal is a heterozygote, and I am fine with homozygotes, both dominant and recessive.
I used to breed chickens in high school, and I had some blue chickens. Blue is an incomplete dominant gene in chickens, with splash and black having a 25% possibility from a blue x blue mating. I could still breed any combination of those 3 colors to get the desired color I wanted, same concept here.

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Well, I was breeding for some Era 5 gen 3 foals, not paying attention to color, when I got this!


O3 E5 2642012
Her color is Silver Smoky Blue Roan Rabicano.
E/E a/a -/Cr -/Z P/p
R/R PATN1/PATN1 -/RB
I knew there was a difference on if Sooty, Sooty+, and/or DP was used, but I had not considered the effects of no darkening added to the phenotype. Interesting. I love her dapples, though.

Compare her to:
No Sooty or +, het DP

HaylToCreamnBack

No Sooty or +, hom DP

FFF Sparks flying

Sooty only

O4 2097414

Sooty and het DP

O2 2484298

Sooty and hom DP

Thai Consolidation YV

Sooty+ only

O3 2184765

Sooty+ and het DP

O4 2531704

Lastly, Sooty+ and hom DP

2018854 E1Fut

You might also notice that I made a tattoo for this project, labeled SSBR (Silver Smoky Blue Roan) Project. I screenshotted Aria's picture, then photoshopped it into a heart. It should be on most horses' thigh/next to their stifle.

Straws are now available for Smoky Quartz, Smoke in the Air, and Smoke N Chrome!

Straws and custom embryos available from my Gen 3, and 4 herds.
Gen 3: https://mesa.huntandjump.com/adv_search.php?runsearch=go&jump=0&agel=20&gelding=0&spayedmare=0&owner=13692&barn=32148&3=2&10=2&56=0&57=0&58=0&59=0&60=0&61=0
Gen 4: https://mesa.huntandjump.com/adv_search.php?runsearch=go&jump=0&gelding=0&spayedmare=0&owner=13692&barn=32540&1=1&10=2&18=1&56=0&57=0&58=0&59=0&60=0&61=0

Straws available from my gen 5 stud.
Straws are for sale on each stallion's page.
Custom embryos (herd sire, select a mare) are available for 5k each.

Update on the F1/second generation.
Thanks to embryo pulls, I think I will only have to do one breeding season per generation, and I won't have to have as many fillies that meet the requirements!
I am not paying attention to bone weight, I really don't care about that.

I pulled 4 embryos from each mare (7 mares), so I had a lot of foals to choose from, so this was my criteria:
All foals:
Must test superior to sire and test AAG their sibling(s)

Colts must be:
A papered (only 1 was B)
Have Sooty + (it's expensive to add, so I prefer they have at least copy of it)
Consistent
Have as many genes homozygous as possible

Colts were sorted out if:
They were heterozygous for too many genes
Inconsistent
Personal preference

I ended up with 2 stallion prospects:

O2 Silver Charm

O2 3284894 3
^he is not named yet because I am waiting to see if he is better than Silver Charm once I make him perfectly consistent. I also want to remove tobiano from him.

Fillies had looser requirements, but mainly were:
Blue papered
Have Sooty +
Consistent (negotiable)

I ended up with 7 fillies, 3 of which are inconsistent, I might GMT that later, it depends on how my leaderboard horses do.

O2 3284892

O2 3287058
^she has to be my favorite filly. So pretty!

O2 3295163

O2 3295165

O2 3295168

O2 3317615

O2 3317618

Silver Apples ended up with an average foal PT of 10.47, but that includes his futurity foals. Of the guaranteed 45 day bonus foals that I bred, the foal PT averages to 10.51!

See y'all in December for the 3rd generation!

Let me know if you want random experf silver black mares. I cleaned your stud out of straws ;)

I'm good, thanks! He will go nicely with my Butterfly project :D

Update: My extra stud colt is now named O2 Silver Bells and is now for sale!
I made him perfectly consistent, and he tested AAG as Silver Charm, so I am going with Charm for gen 2.