Crossbreeding discussion

By Retired breeder, 3rd April 2010 20:13:43
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HellOw!

If you like to cross-breed, this is the place for you!

On this topic, you can discuss your crossbreeding programs, share your secrets, and advise other players about it.

Compare different crosses with the ones from other players, and brag about your achievements in crossbreeding.

It's not allowed to advertise horse sales!

The forum rules and the game rules also apply.

Have fun sharing!
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By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 03:09:02
[URL= http://www.howrse.com/elevage/fiche/?id=10084638]This is my newest cross. He will be a great cross-country horse.[/URL]
By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 03:33:17
Nice colt, jamesgoober. I am looking to buy a high IBS cross foal to BLUP next.
By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 03:33:44
Oh, I meant to add, anyone have any for sale?
By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 06:13:12
Nice skilled foal COC ... I have one that i just bret with 21* but 0 Skills ! But i can't train it... I can't get a nyx pack and don't have aging pions.
By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 06:24:56
Hey im new to this game, so i was just wonderin what crosses well with an arabian? And will the foal look like the mom or dad?
The foal will be the dad's breed, if he is purebred. I recommend Irish Hunters, personally.
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By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 10:47:44
Sunny, I have 3 different cross foals for sale and will accept Bonus BM items for the price of them. There are two Morgan/IH/Pain/TB and one TB/Paint cross. Pm me if interesteddefault smiley :) The foal below is from the same blood line.

What does everyone think of this little guy? I was intending him for gallop comps and was hoping to beat the winning streak of a certain Spanish Horsedefault smiley ;)

[url=http://www.howrse.com/elevage/fiche/?id=10078492[/url]
Haha! D'ya think you could give me one as well? default smiley ;) I've got toooo many BM items that I don't use.

I think he's awesome. Do you breed with tears?
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By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 12:50:39
so cool you shoud add me as your frind
By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 13:08:24
chickenman, are yo talking to beach horses?
Anyway I am hopefully going to sell some horses soon and thenI will be getting an IH broodmare for crossbreeding to hopefully get some high dressage foals.
By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 13:16:12
I meany you, not yo.default smiley (lol)
I'm copying this from a question I asked in Game Play because I'm hoping that fellow cross breeders could help me with this question.

Ok, here goes...I have a line of horses called "Sweet Sixteens", if you need to look at them, you'll find them in my Horses Being Worked tab. Anyway, they are perfect mixes of 16 breeds (hence the name) and now I'm working on training and breeding them to raise their GP.

Well, the first generation were Welsh Ponies as a "showing" breed (since they are perfect mixes on their genetics page 5 breeds randomly show at 20% so there is no dominant breed). I figured then that when I bred them together one of two things would happen, either they would produce Welsh ponies because both parents showed Welsh ponies, or they would show some random breed.

The breeding of these two horses produced Standardbred horses. Fine, then I bred the Welsh father back to the Standardbred showing daughter. I figured that I would get a Welsh out of this, but to my surprise it was a Standardbred.

As they are evenly mixed, there shouldn't be a dominant breed. Is there something I'm missing here? Will they eventually show as other breeds or will they all be Standardbred showing?

The first generation (Welsh showing) parents were brother and sister. Their father was Standardbred, and their mother was Canadian.

Please let me know if you can answer this. Thanks!
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By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 16:00:40
My gorgeous girl now has her 574th win default smiley :o

link to her default smiley :d
By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 16:05:56
spanishroses4u - there is some funny rule as to what breed the foal takes. For a bog standard 50/50 cross (of two *purebred* horses) then the foal will always take the stally's breed as dominate

After that it's something ridiculous like the foal takes it's father's mother's breed, I've seen your question answered before but it was far too much info for my little brain.
bridget-xxx you are right on the "rule" that if it's a 50 50 cross then it takes the sires breed, after that it usually takes the dominant breed, and some say if it's an even cross then it should take the sire's dam, but the problem is that they don't appear to be following any of those rules, so it's a little bizarre to me...default smiley (o)
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By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 16:26:23
Well I seem to recall an admin (Ow I believe but I may be wrong) saying that it was 'random'

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Not sure I believe that myself, especially with the 50/50 cross thing *always* taking the stally's breed as dominate..
By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 16:26:38
whoops, grammar error there. Dominant*
By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 18:46:13
Spanishhorses-

I am having the same trouble with my 25% crosses! I expected it to turn out as the Father's mother's breed so I coordinated my breeds the way I wanted it if it worked like that and it turned out as the father's breed instead! Last time I WANTED it to be the fathers breed and it turned out the fathers mothers breed! So it appears random??

I bred 3 times with that combo and it stayed Morgan (fathers breed) with each foal so I am assuming that once you get one foal with a certain shown breed it stays that breed for the rest.
They're still not following those rules then, since one set turned out Welsh, and then after that they turned out standardbred which was the father's father's breed instead of the father's mother's breed...I'm curious to see what the future generations are going to do.
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By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 20:13:36
Man bridget! Did you have to train her up so good?! LOL! default smiley xd Her colt Still can't beat her in trotting! and he's beaten almost Every other horse thats thrown at him default smiley xd did you realize who she was racing ? One day! one day he will beat her!

If you want to see my pretty little boy - Monty python
His training is coming along nicely!
By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 22:43:24
My latest crossbreed twins: Hano/IH with monster ibs! I am so excited! default smiley (7)default smiley (7)
By Retired breeder, 19th May 2010 22:55:39
i have tons for sale, any foal in the ۞ ᾎll Ṁixed Űp ۞ affix. name your price default smiley :)

http://www.howrse.com/elevage/fiche/affixe?id=139346

im kinda taking a break from breeding and training for now, so ill sell any of them. most are just half and half, all different breeds. i had a lot of fun experimenting though default smiley :)
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