Breeding and Designs

Weekly limits reset at 00:00 (site time) on Sundays. You may submit a maximum of one breeding and two design requests per week.

♡ Breeding Overview

Once you've obtained breeding slots for a mare and stallion, you may breed them together to produce a foal! Any two Teddies can be bred as long as they do not share any ancestry shown on their Lineage tab (ancestry beyond the chart is not counted). You may breed two of your own ponies, yours and someone else's, or two from different players - just ensure they are unrelated and you have a booked, unused slot in their Breeding Slots tab. Each user may submit one breeding per week, resetting at 00:00 (site time) on Sundays.

Before breeding, always compare both parents’ lineage charts. If they share any ancestors in their visible grids (parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents), they cannot be bred together. Any relation beyond this grid does not count.

♡ Submitting a Breeding

To move forward with a breeding, you'll first need to draw a "breedpic." This is not a graphic/explicit image, it's simply a depiction of the two horses together! This must be at least a colored fullbody of both horses, or at least a 1200 word story about the two meeting. Like Inspections, this is just a completion step and is not judged, but we do expect effort and care.

Breedpics may be made by you or another artist (commissioned, traded, etc), but each must be unique to that breeding. Upload the breedpic yourself and include a credit link to the original artist if applicable. To submit your breeding request:

  • Upload your breedpic to the gallery
  • Go to the Breeding Rolls queue
  • Select your gallery submission from the dropdown
  • Add both the mare and stallion to the Characters section
  • Click Submit!

A staff member will review your breeding request. If everything checks out, your foal will be rolled according to the Genetics & Inheritance rules below. You'll receive a link to your foal roll once approved. This roll is banked in your account just like a designed character - you can view all of your undesigned rolls under Foal Rolls in the top-right username dropdown.

All foals are designed by our staff members, with some specific aspects chosen by the owner. To learn more about this process, see the Requesting a Design section below.

♡ Genetics & Inheritance

Gender: Rolled with a 70% chance of filly and 30% chance of colt.

Height: Rolled within ±0.2hh of each parent’s height, with a 10% chance at each "step."

  • Example: A 10.3hh mare bred to a 13hh stallion would produce a foal between 10.1–11.1hh or 12.2–13.2hh.

Phenotype & Genotype: Teddy Cobs uses semi-realistic equine genetics (realistic, but with a couple tweaks and extra mutations!). To figure out the chances of a given gene passing, you can use punnett squares, or check out Sablesteel's Breeding Calculator to see all possible results of a specific pairing. Most of the genes found in Teddy Cobs are complete dominant, meaning they will display the same in both heterozygous and homozygous forms. Others are homozygous recessive, meaning they will only show if they are homozygous. Any other exceptions are noted on the About the Breed page.

Twins: There is a 3% chance of twins, with both foals included on the same Foal Roll. They are generated separately, so each may have different genders, heights, and phenotypes/genotypes, but they are designed and uploaded together. Twins cannot be split in Foal Roll form, though they can be sold or traded separately once designed. Submitting a twin roll to Design Requests only counts as 1 request toward your weekly limit. If you want different Variants or Styles for each twin, be sure to duplicate those sections in your submission.

Random Traits: Traits from the "Random/Non-Genetic" section here have a 5% chance of occurring.

♡ Requesting a Design

Once you have a foal roll, you can submit it to the Design Requests queue to turn it into a fully-fledged pony! All foals are designed by our staff members and will ultimately be a surprise to the owner; specific preferences are not accepted at this time. Please remember that many aspects of our group revolve around randomness, and this process is no different. You may not always get exactly the design you hoped for, but each foal is crafted thoughtfully by our staff volunteers. Disrespect or complaints about designs will not be tolerated. If a foal isn't quite your style, you are always welcome to sell or trade it.

There are a few aspects of the design you can choose freely: Variants and Styles.

Variants are the official varieties available for some of our coat colors and markings/modifiers. If you do not list any variants, the designer will default to the normal form of that coat/marking. Only the following Variants are available at this time:

Styles are the different lineart options available on our base. You can find all of them on this page - click the magnifying glass next to a trait name to see examples. If you prefer a random roll for any style category, just let us know and we'll be happy to assign one.

When you're ready to request a design for a roll, visit the Design Requests queue (also accessible via the Submit dropdown in the top right corner). You can toggle between queues to populate the form, or copy and paste from the template below:

Roll Link:

Variant(s):

Styles:

- Mane Style:

- Tail Style:

- Feathering:

- Wooly:

Note: Submitting a twin roll for designing only counts as 1 request toward your weekly limit. Also, if you want different Variants or Styles for each twin, be sure to duplicate those sections in your submission.

Please do not include additional preferences, example links, or comments when submitting a design request. The staff designer will craft the foal according to the Foal Roll, Variant, and Style selections. Submissions with additional requests or pressuring comments will be sent back to have those removed before we are able to design your foal.

When the design is finished, the original roll will be deleted and a new character will be uploaded in its place. That's all there is to it! You can then work on bonding, general art/literature, inspection, etc. There is no aging system in the group, so you may depict your Teddy as a foal or an adult whenever you'd like. Each user may submit two design requests to the queue per week, resetting at 00:00 (site time) on Sundays.