Surprise!

[Syn]

Got a double dilute foal out of what I thought was just a plain ol' black mare when I bred her to a buckskin stallion. Apparently at some point I also overlooked the fact that she produced an amber cream foal when bred to a regular amber champagne. Guess she's not just black after all!

What were some of your biggest surprises in breeding?

[Aela]

Ah! It's always nice to discover your black horse was in fact smoky black

I think my biggest surprise was when I finally (and by finally I mean after a long, long time) got a non-dun, non-champagne Aegidienberger. So nice to see a plain base coloured horse after so many diluted ones.

Also, I've been breeding Aegidienbergers for about half a year. I got the first black, no dilutions whatsoever, a month ago. Sometimes agouti bothers me

[Syn]

Sometimes agouti bothers me

Same! For a while I had nothing but bays and bay dilutes. I finally got a black mare (or so I thought...) and a couple of chestnuts and I've been trying to spread the non-agouti and red genes around like crazy for more variety.

Actually, when I was first working with Hackneys there was a period where I almost exclusively had double dilutes. It was ridiculous.

[Aela]

Sometimes agouti bothers me

I've been trying to spread the non-agouti and red genes around like crazy for more variety.

Oh yes, I actually had a point in breeding where I had had a fair amount of very dark reds. So dark they looked bay both at birth and later, and I didn't notice them in ages. It was quite a surprise when I discovered like five generations of reds

[Alaina]

I had a double dilute born from an Amber champagne and a buckskin. Surprise! Turns out there's pearl hiding in my herd! XD Also bred my pearl stud to a chestnut foundation mare and got a chestnut pearl foal.