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i love just about everything

i think my absolute favorites are brown and liver chestnuts - hom dp and sty with lp and patn1 and asr1

Hi!

I have bred for almost every color at some point during being a member here. Currently I'm very into my Brown/Bay/Buckskin Dun Chocolate (b/b) line and I'm really enjoying it especially adding DFP2 too
Some of my favorites are Buckskin Dun and Silver Brown!

Any color with sty and dp is pretty (chocolate palamino, liver chestnut and brown), but Brown Tobiano (EEAaSTYSTYDPDPTo--) or a silver brown Tobiano is my absolute favorite!

I really love silver black, especially when they have a dapple pattern. I'm also a real sucker for dark brown and liver chestnut! Also I don't really breed for this but I do love Grullo when I see it, so pretty.

I like variety in my line, but my basic tendency is to lean into darker coats with minimal to medium expression of non-lethal white genes. However, I also like some of the lighter genes, such as Mushroom, Dun, Silver, Platinum, and the occasional Cream or Pearl; so I've added those genes into the mix as well, usually with Gray and Gray Reduction (G/- gr/gr) so as to darken the pigment without causing an eventual whiteout effect.
I love dapples, rich tones, and interesting patterns, so my favorites usually have S+, P+, DP, BI, and KIT genes.
My favorite color combos include:
Dappled Liver Chestnut (ee DP/DP S+/S+) Het Cr also looks great on this one.
Black Liver (ee DP/DP Sty/Sty) f/f can look amazing on this one!
Dappled Silver Smoky Black (Ee aa Cr/- Z S+/S+)
Silver Brown (Ee Aa Z DP/DP S+/Sty)
Dark Dappled Buckskin (Ee Aa Cr/- DP/DP S+/Sty)
Platinum Buckskin (Ee Aa Cr/- DP/DP S+/Sty plt/plt)

I also like when any of the above combos have:
Dun with DFP
nd1
Chocolate (b/b)
Satin (sa/sa)
They all have to have KIT genes in my breeding program, but not so much white that their color becomes too difficult to see, so I usually pair it with BI. The KIT genes I like, usually in combo with each other, are:
Tobiano
Powder White
W8
M (Manchado)
SWM (Macchiato)

If you get into fantasy genes, my favorites are Silver Black Chinchilla (EE aa Chn/Chn) and just about anything with Watercolor, Nacre, Inkspot, Void, and/or Toner.