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Well if he does not have DP I want to add it to him before I breed him I think I'm going to get a GMT and see if I can add DP to him if not then he already has the gene

Also, DP costs 10 GMTs a pop. He also has no sooty alleles, in order to really make him worth your time md effort I would suggest making him hom sooty and hom DP. Otherwise, like Windward said, no point to it.

If you just slap a single DP to him the chances of his goals getting the DP as well as expressing it is pretty slim

What I am seeing on my computer monitor is a dark gray background with black stripes, which is his brindle expression. He does not look brown at all, to me. Making him homozygous EE probably would not make much difference, except, perhaps by changing the appearance of his brindle pattern. It would not make him blacker, unless the brindle was even more minimally expressed than it is now.

Extension is a complete dominant gene. That means that if a horse has homozygous recessive agouti to make him bay (as he does) and no dilution genes like Cream, Pearl, Dun, Silver, or Champagne, there will be no visual difference between a horse that is homozygous EE and one that is heterozygous Ee. The result is a completely black horse in either case.

Since DP only affects red pigment (recessive extension or e), adding it to a black horse will make no difference in color because it has no red hair.

Black horses can carry DP, so if you breed him to a Liver Chestnut mare and get a black Liver Chestnut foal you can be sure he is carrying it.

Sorry I forgot to say I was changing him to ee for a chocolate palomino pearl hom DP coat he already has one copy of DP without the black he is liver chestnut until I add the Kitm cream and pearl..but he didn't have DP I have to add another copy for him to be hom :)

Wow! He's really stunning, now.

He is looking great!

He is so gorgeous! Ooh you should make him satin instead of kit m and pearl *drools* Although he'd need to be hom satin for it to show but you can get one hom satin horse for the number of GMTs as 2 het Kit m horses. He'll be really good looking either way!