[Horses] The mysteries of "Horse" breeding unraveled

[Horses]

Hi everyone, Silvanon here!  Sorry I've been absent the past few days (and thanks to Ethendil for getting the Quinsta breeding season going).  The reason for my disappearance is that I've finally made some progress on figuring out how "Horses" can breed.  It turns out that, being the magical creations they are, the method for breeding "Horses" is rather unconventional.  Each stage from egg (yes, egg) to adult requires a different substance to facilitate the process.

To start out, only "Horses" who share the same owner are able to breed.  In order to breed "Horses," you have to sprinkle special Gold Dust over a mare and a stallion you own.  The pair will then produce an egg.  You can tell the gender of the egg right away, since they have different shell colors.  Eggs can hatch any time after they are a full 5 days old (even a few seconds shy of the full 5 days won't work).  Once the egg is at least 5 days old, you can get it to hatch by sprinkling special Cinnamon over it.  When the foal hatches you'll be able to see the base body color.  All "Horse" foals have cloudy blue eyes, grey hooves, and no mutations or markings showing.  Once the foal is at least 20 days old (counting from when the egg was laid) you can help your foal grow into an adult by feeding it some special Sugar.

Where can you get all these special breeding items you ask?  Why, in the Horses Agency Store of course!

Now, you may be asking yourself how "Horse" inheritance works.  All "Horse" markings and mutations are recessive, meaning they need two of the gene in order to display.  All genes are on their own loci.  So, if you breed a normal maned mare to a puff maned stallion, the foal will get one normal mane and one puff mane gene.  The baby shows no mane, but it could produce normal maned or puff maned offspring. 

If you breed a normal maned mare to a normal maned stallion, the baby will always get the genes for a visible normal mane.

It is possible for a "Horse" to have enough genes that than one mane mutation should be visible.  In that case, random chance decides which one is actually visible on the individual.  However, the individual keeps all its genes and can pass them to offspring.  In the future there will be other mutations that share a type, like the mane mutations.  Mutations that don't share types can be genetically and visibly present on the same individual at the same time.  So, for example, you can have a puff mane and floofy feet visible at the same time.

Color inheritance - when a "Horse" inherits a marking or mutation from both parents, there is a 45% chance the color will come from the mother, a 45% chance the color will come from the father, and a 10% chance the color will be a random mutation.

"Horse" eggs have a 50/50 chance of being male or female.

Let me know if you have any questions!

(Horse breeding has been fully tested and should be bug-free, but let me know if you run into problems.)

[red_uni387]

geez Silv, do you ever take a break? o___o

[Kahlira]

Silv is awesome!

I have an egg =D

[Scullisto]

Yay!   I have Eggs!

[Mutt]

Awesome, now I have something to use my SG for again X3 Can't wait to see what the foals look like. Now to make a few more random Horses.

[Luv007]

I'll have to go Horse hunting so I have one!  The concept is awesome.  Silv is definately awesome....

[Silvanon]

Br....eak?

XD

Thanks for the comments, guys!  I hope you have lots of fun with Horse breeding! 

[Kadana Sorano]

eee!  I has an eggie!  

*tosses scrolls Luv's way*

Thank you Silv, I have been waiting for this day since Horses came to Secundi

[Ryuukokoro]

Squeeeeeeeeeeeee! So much awesome!

[Luv007]

Kadana is also awesome..... *can't wait to turn in the scrolls once I figure out how*

[red_uni387]

luv - go to your account, then go to use agency items, select horses, then select the scroll you want to use

[Kahlira]

Foals are so cute! can they stay foalios forever? But then ya never know what will grow into...

[Kadana Sorano]

I agree, the foals are simply adorable!  

[Silvanon]

  Thanks, glad you guys like them!  And yes, actually, they'll stay foals until you feed them sugar, so they can stay foals as long as you like.

[Victoria]

  Thanks, glad you guys like them!  And yes, actually, they'll stay foals until you feed them sugar, so they can stay foals as long as you like.

Oh wow! Thats amazing cant wait to get my first Horse!

[Ryuukokoro]

Ooooo lookit the shade of my pretty!

[Keilin Alyr]

My colt is definitely a daddy's boy. Same coat coloration. =)

[Luv007]

Mine's a mama's boy as far as coloration, but I'm hoping he'll pick up the design from his daddy.  I love the vines.

[Keilin Alyr]

Oh wow, I think I have the girliest male Horse ever. Remember that little white foal a few weeks ago?



Pretty pink sparkles! <3

[Kahlira]

Something about my boy's eyes freak me out just wee bit.



Your sparkley is gorgeous!

[Mutt]

Two out of my three look almost exactly like one of their parents except this girl, I love the poofy hair,



Keilin Alyr - I think my just randomly generated boy Mad Max wants to be the second girliest male Horse ever- http://www.secundi.net/critterpage.php?ID=530788 XD I love your boy's colors :3

[Ryuukokoro]

lol now you guys got me dying of curiosity! -runs to feed her baby-

Edit: Whoops not old enough yet. XD

[Wildfilly94]

Pretty Horses! Kah, yours is amazing, I think. O_O

[Wildfilly94]

Got a Plain Joe. But I like his toes :3

[Scullisto]

So I got no markings no manes...nothing.





very disappointed.

[Ryuukokoro]

The top post says:

All "Horse" markings and mutations are recessive, meaning they need two of the gene in order to display.

I think this means Horses work like the PI Generator? Breeding two parents with the same gene produces a visible s-gene in the offspring. Breeding two parents with different genes means the baby will be plain but carry both genes?

[Keilin Alyr]

They will carry their parents' genes though, so if bred to another carrier or visible parent the offspring might show those traits. Since all traits are recessive they won't be shown if both parents don't show or at least carry that trait. They aren't like the cream, dun, and roan genes, where only one parent needs the gene.

Better luck next breeding though, those are pretty coat colors. =)

[Ryuukokoro]

Since the babies are maneless, that must mean each parent had a different mane type. The hairless offspring could pass either parents' mane type to future offspring.

[springacres]

My foal is still too young, as well...

However, since we're talking about girly male horses... I believe I have the third, fourth, fifth and sixth most girly males!
http://www.secundi.net/critterpage.php?ID=529504
http://www.secundi.net/critterpage.php?ID=514913
http://www.secundi.net/critterpage.php?ID=513668
http://www.secundi.net/critterpage.php?ID=513729

[Wildfilly94]

Sculli I love your Horses. D:

[Goddesss]

Hehehe I did the same thing guys.  Guess I should have waited to see how this worked first.




Though I knew after reading this this is what I would get when they grew.  I think this is a cool thing.

[Luv007]

Same here. No markings or hair.

I think I might breed one to keep as a baby.

[Ryuukokoro]

Mine's going to be the same way lol. She can grow tomorrow.

Oh I'm totally going to keep a bunch as babies! ^.^ I love the baby lineart!


Although I'm a little confused. Kahlira's baby has visible Clouds markings even though only one parent seems to have it. A glitch, or does the mom have "invisible" Clouds that are the same shade as the body?

[Kahlira]

There's a very subtle difference on the body and cloud marking, yes. I custom made that pair when the breedings were open. Just so I'd know I could have markings.

[Ryuukokoro]

Ahh I see! The mystery revealed! I can see the mom's marking now that you pointed it out, I had to look closely lol

[Kahlira]

Look closely or tilt you screen. *grins*

Yeah, When I made her I was like did I forget her markings??  Did they not register?? I so fail.

[Keilin Alyr]

Luv: You could always create him a mate with his parents' genes, that way you could still have colorful babies. =)

[Luv007]

Very true!!  I love him daddy's coloring.....