Re: Crummy foal quest. Anyone else working on it?
Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 8:56 am
She looks nice. I have yet to get a belgian cross with the LP gene (I am trying out a few of the stallions that are up for stud) but apparantly the gene that causes the most white is supposed to be hidden in two breeds from the AC. I guess genetic testing could be helpful in this but unfortunately it is not yet implemented in the game and I don't know if we even will be able to test the appaloosa pattern genes.BlackOak2 wrote:
So I finally received an acceptable offspring from a belgian mare. Except I think she does not carry the gene for medium spots, so I don't yet know if she has any spread at all. I plan to pick up another and try again, but I'm maxed out with horses at the moment.
As for the foal, a decent enough looking filly that might do better in the low GP project than my spotted herd, but we'll see what she can do. She still carries some of those belgian traits that I do want, regardless of appaloosa patterning. I do not yet see any difference either addition or subtraction that could be attributed to her mother (although I must say that only one of her five siblings offered anything more than just a butt-blanket... that one was born at 13hh plus, too tall).
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But even if the gene that causes most white in a horse is the answer to true leopard pattern it seems that there is more to it than just one gene. For example I can get a foal with only blanket pattern from two near leopard horses sometimes and two horses with solid coloured heads and neck can get a foal that is near leopard.
Looking at the pictures from when the leopard complex was first introduced in the game:
http://www.horseworldonline.net/forum/v ... f=2&t=4135
I don't see any true leopard pattern there and the horses that have the most white still have those "problem areas" we mentioned earlier in this thread.