♡ Breeding Overview
Once you've obtained breeding slots to a mare and stallion, you may breed them together to get a foal! Any two Teddies can be bred together, as long as they do not share any ancestry shown on their Lineage tab (shared ancestry beyond the chart is not counted). You may breed two of your own ponies, yours and someone else's, two different players', etc. As long as they're unrelated and you have a booked, unused slot in their Breeding Slots tab, you're good to go! All users may submit one breeding per week.
Before breeding, please be sure to compare both parents' lineage charts! If they share any ancestors in their visible grids (parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents), they are not eligible to be bred together. Any relation beyond the grid is not counted.
♡ 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 to be put into it. Once complete, submit it to the gallery, then head to Breeding Rolls to do the following:
- Select your gallery submission from the dropdown
- Add both the mare and stallion to the Characters section
- Hit Submit!
A staff member will review your breeding request, and as long as everything checks out, your foal will be rolled and designed as described in the Genetics & Inheritance section below! After a foal is born, it can be used like any other Teddy Cob. There is no aging system in the group, so you may depict your Teddy as a foal or an adult whenever you'd like.
Breedpics may be drawn by you or by someone else (traded, commissioned, etc), as long as they are for that specific breeding/only used once. The art should be uploaded by the person submitting the breeding, with linked credit to the original artist in the description if not drawn by them.
Please do not request or pressure staff members to design your foal a certain way, include specific markings, etc. Any breedings submitted with comments like this will be declined.
♡ Genetics & Inheritance
Genotype: Teddy Cobs uses semi-realistic equine genetics (realistic, but with a couple tweaks and extra mutations!). Your horse's Genotype is visible on its profile. To figure out the chances of a given gene passing, you can use punnett squares. 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. There are a couple other exceptions, but these are noted in the About the Breed section above. For coat colors that have recognized shades (such as Buttermilk Buckskin or Liver Chestnut), this is decided by the designer at random.
Styles: Although the base variations are cosmetic and not actual traits/limits/expectations (except the ears!), these are also rolled using the parents' traits for "inheritance." This is just a fun way to get specific lineart variations that you like! For the mane, tail, feathering, and woolies, there is a 40% chance of getting the sire's style, a 40% chance of getting the dam's, and a 20% chance of getting a random roll between all variants. This is rolled for each category separately, meaning your foal may get its mother's mane, father's tail and feathering, and woolies... out of nowhere. Note that the random roll includes all styles, even the parents', so there is actually an even larger chance of rolling a parent's style depending on the number of variants in the category.
Height: This is rolled using each parent's height from 0.2hh lower to 0.2hh higher, with a 10% chance at each "step." For example, a 10.3hh mare bred to a 13hh stallion would produce a foal that is 10.1-11.1hh or 12.2-13.2hh.
Gender: Gender is rolled with a 70% chance of filly and 30% chance of colt.
Other: Twins are possible at a rate of 3%, and have an additional 50/50 chance of being "identical" (not reeeally - same roll, differing designs) or fraternal (separate rolls). Random traits like birdcatcher spots have a 5% chance of occurring.