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life-d-sign In reply to Seri-goyle [2012-02-06 09:44:01 +0000 UTC]

they haven't always been chimeras that is true. Right from the beginning it was clear though that a CL Harlequine would never get a Harlequine foal (unless bred to a BL). So crossing a CL with any other kind of horse would result in pretty much anything except a harlequine colored foal. I later decided that chimeras would fit well to explain that.

Still actually Harlequines are very often infertile, but the term "often" seems to imply for everyone, that their own Harlequine is of course the rare exception. Can't be helped

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Seri-goyle In reply to life-d-sign [2012-02-06 23:40:51 +0000 UTC]

Then, theoretically, a CL Harley started out as 2 zygotes, one that would have matured red and white and one black and white? Or would one have been red and black? I'm thinking there would be, if you will, 6 possible 'invisible' horses(solid black, solid white, solid red, red/white paint, black/white paint, red/black paint) inside each CL, each actual horse only containing 2. But each horse could not contain 2 solids, only a combination of 2 paints or a solid and a paint that added up to them expressing each of the three colors at least once.

So, since I have 3 CLs that I adopted a long time ago but just drew, one adult male, one adult female, and a juvenile female, odds are good that they are all infertile. I can deal with that, except that the filly is the mare's daughter. Which also doesn't work, unless her unknown sire was a BL. So the mare has to be fertile, as she already has one offspring. In the interest of keeping with breed standards, I can still make the other 2 infertile.

And the fertile female I have left would breed as if she were a black/white paint or a red/white paint, depending on the coin flip I'll need to decide which 'invisible' horse supplied her ovaries. I'm leaning toward red/white paint for stable color distribution reasons.

Thank you so much for helping me out. It does seem that everyone, everywhere, needs to be the exception to the rule. But I'm just glad to have some, since the last I checked, they weren't a free to create breed.

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