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Breeding while simple at face value involves a lot of factors, including a certain amount of discresion of the carver in creating the final outcomes. After all, they will try their best to carve and paint something which would be 'acceptable' to the eye and certainly functional for the animal! Certain factors come into play across the board from what factors affect the number of children, wether it's another horse breed that is compatible to pass traits down, or even wether the carver actually picks up traits not normal to the animal (aka edits).

Hair edits will not be shown til adulthood most of the time. Since the animals do grow up, it makes no sense to have a special style before they've fully grown their hair (or not grown as the cases may be). In some cases a hint of what might be could be on the Carousel, but not always! Sometimes things are a mystery...

Not ALL edits will be shown on carousels (or children). Occasionally a trait might not intially be on the carousel, but appear as it grows. items carved on may not actually come to be/be given to the animal until it's an adult; that is to say a Carver would create it for the animal. Clothing, hair, etc. may not be inhereted 100% - that is to say if an animal has custom hair, has items and clothing... the child may get something very close but not exactly the same! Sometimes they may though! It's really very ... up in the air on just how exacting the carver feels like. If both parents have editted hair, rest assured that there will be at least oen child who grows up with it.

Carousel stage is not the be all, end all of the child's appearances. While the colorations of the hair/body WILL be there and some of it's edits (or maybe all), it is not the perfect representation. As a rule items are the msot commonly carved item to appear on the child; clothing will tend to happen as an adult, if such a thing was on the parents and happened. Two heavily editted parents do have a very slight chance of producing children/a child without hardly anything, if they somehow manage to fail passing ALL traits. See chances below for more information.

Gender is random just like features, but the carousel genders will be announced at time of reveal. Sorry, no complete surprises on gender; the carver can determine it and will announce such so that it is properly cared for in advance.

Horse Racial Features "Passing On" to Children. As a rule each race/breed of animal is unique. however occasionally some breeds have a low chance to pass on a feature or aspect of thmselves to their horse children (sorry no uni horns for bunnies!) Wnicorns are the most prevalent in not passing a full paired feature - that is to say if a pure unicorn sporting the unicorn tail AND horn has a child, and bred to something other then another unicorn, there is a low chance of it passing only one of the two features. Also, unis sporting only the horn (MLP types or MLP unicorn bloodline children) will always pass the horn down to uni children. Unis sporting only the horn from unicorn parent inheretene still have a chance to pass the tail on to children as well though through genetic throwback/feature inheretence based on unicorn tail. Pets which sport only the tail and not the horn (custom) can never have horned children unless bred to a unicorn featuring the horn (MLP or pure). The chane for a uniconr parent to pass only one feature is low however; most of the time it is an all or nothing deal. Note that the tail and horn currently can only pass to pegasus or regular horses, not Mers and Nightmares. Uni/Mer or Uni NM breedings will always result in 'pure' children, though a unicorn child has a low chance to have a normal tail or no horn but the other visible trait. Also note that a winged unicorn will never produce true winged unicorn children when bred to anything else unless the other parent is a unicorn or pegasus, and then not always. This is because the feature of at least half of the winged unicorn features are present in the other parent, and able to bolster the chance of passing on both traits. However, this is not a perfect chance, either.

[ Determining Children's Gender ]

No matter the pair, no matter if it's constantly been females bred or males bred... gender is always a 50/50 chance. Even or odd, 1-50 is male, whatever the way it's done, gender is always even chance but always random... so even if it doesn't SEEM random to constantly get one gender over another... that's how it rolls. Gender is one of the first things determined.

[ Determining Children's Race ]

Race rolls are determined baed on parent make-up. If either parent has previous bloodlines, races will be checked; if a race is in the line that is neither parent, a genetic throwback roll will be made. If this happens, then rolls against rarity for all non-parent races will be done if there is more then one race which is not one of the parents. Ex: A regular horse and a Unicorn breed, but the regular horse has a pegasus parent and regular parent, and the unicorn has a merhrose parent and unicorn parent. If the genetic throwback roll happens to succeed, a roll is made to see if the child has the chance to be a Merhorse first, as they are 'rarer' in inheretence of race. If that fails, the child will be a pegasus due to their grandparent. If genetic throwback fails, rolls are made against the rarer race; if it does not pass the rarer race, then the child is the more common race. Certain races are stronger in passing on because they are considered 'more common' - this is reflected in the essences collected through family lines and how sometimes genetic throwback actually happens. The grandparent's essence takes form, and is culled off and happens to be strong enough to produce the race, despite neither parent being it. In a mixed breeding, occasionally the more common parent's essence is simply too much to produce a child of the rarer parent's type because there wasn't enough essence to produce that type... but it's still carried on.

Race Probability Rolls
Nightmare :: 25% (nightmare blood when mixed with others is very recessive)
Merhorse :: 35%
Unicorn :: 40% (with 10% chance to only pass one feature if the parent has both tail and horn. If bloodline permits chance of horn or tail but parent only shows one, there is a 15% chance of the 'invisible' feature returning to be visible when unicorn is rolled)
Cat :: 45%
Pegasus :: 45%
Rabbit :: 50%

Horse is most common, and if one of the parents is one, will always win when other race rolls fail. If breeding involves rare race horse-types whoever is the more common result will win - ex: Unicorn v. Rabbit, if the unicorn roll fails, then the child will be a rabbit. Nightmare essence is very difficult to have dominant in mixed breeding results as it requires a lot to pull off the magical flame, etc. - if there is not enough to do it, it doesn't happen.

Breed Odd Boosting of Rare Races If Bloodlines of Other Parents show blood: 3% per each individual in the family sporting that race, up to 50% max chance.

That is to say, if a unicorn and regular breed, but the regular has unicorn essence in it's line, then the children will have a 'boosted' chance to have unicorn children. This is another way genetic throwback comes into play when one parent has a history of the family in their line, and breeds to a parent which is that race. Thus a regular (or other race) which has a history of nightmares in it's lines has a better chance of producing a nightmare child WITH a nightmare then if the nightmare was bred to something which had no trace of nightmare in the line.

Hybrids and the Throwback Chance
If a Pegasus and Unicorn breed, there is a 5% chance the child will end up a normal horse. Why this is is a slight mystery but Tahrene has theorized that while there is a chance of these two types producing a hybrid (at a 7% chance) there is also a chance that the hybridization fails, and neither feature passes on to the child. The roll order is determined as follows:

Roll for Genetic Throwback (if GT is available, and yes this chance CAN also produce a regular if the uni/peg parents had regular horses in their line!) :: 5%
Roll for Hybrid :: 7% chance
Roll for Hybrid Throwback :: 5% (if in 5% range, produces a normal horse)
Roll for Unicorn :: 40% (if it fails to be a unicorn, failed hybrid and HT, and GT didn't kick in, then it is a Pegasus.)

Yes that's a lot of rolling for a hybrid JUST to determine it's a pegasus. But it eliminates all other chances of anything happening, too.

Hybrid Throwback (a reg from non-reg parents without regular bloodlines) (HT) will only happen when either a pegasus and unicorn breed, OR when a inged unicorn is bred to either a unicorn, pegasus, or another winged unicorn. HT happens at any time in breeding when hybrid lines are crossed - and the only hybridizations are peg, uni, and their hybrid result the winged unicorn.


Feature inheritence is fickle; just because you DO get something passed down doesn't mean you get it all. In fact, even with heavily editted parents, there is no guarantee that the childen will also carry heavy edits. You don't get everything all the time after all. Also note the degree of editting on the child may not be whole hog like a parent; preserving the uniqueness of the parent is as important as making a unique kid, so not every kid will be exactly like the parents in terms of the edits they get! This is more of a chance of any edits happening, althougb most edits will mirror the look and/or feel of the parent's edits. A short-hair edit will generally produce a short hairstyle on a kid which inherits edits, but not necessarily the exact same style as the parent.

Percentages are the values for major/minor edits... if a number results in 1-20 on hair with one parent editted, it gets more hair edits, if itis 21-40 it gets minor ones. When two aprents with edits breed, there is a large chance for SOME edits, but how much is still in the air.

Hair edits :: 20/40% if only one parent has it, 55/85% if both
Accessories (jewelry and other trinkets) :: 20/45% 1 parent, 50/80% if both
Clothing (shirt, jacket, etc. - large items) 15/30% if one parent, 40/70% if both

Body Edits

Note: When features are inherited, very gender specific edits (mostly female things like make-up etc.) will not pass to childrne of the opposite gender. Sorry but you can't make crossdressers like that. If a parent for any reason was crossdressing, there's a low chance the child may.

Note 2: Items from the item shop are not inheritable. If you want the kid to have something you have to go buy one. 8D