Hello reader, I’m Queralt o Loinsigh, Breeder and Compete of Gypsy Vanner’s or Gypsy Horses. Though I’m typing under the name of Queralt, in role play, this page would be more appropriately explained by my other character Phiala o Loinsigh Queralt’s sister and Breeding Manager. So let’s begin shall we.
When you’re in Create-A-Pet, the first question you ask yourself is what sort of coat do I want my horse to have, of course some coats are particular to that breed, but all horse has the possibility of being that coat color, even if they aren’t pure breed of a breed. So, your Number one rule to remember when you are looking at Genetics; know the name of that coat. Even if you can’t do the coding, knowing the name allows for other people using the Sims Three and breeding horses, to be able to figure out the Genetics of the horse for you. So after Much searching and Researching, I present to you, your Coat guide. At first I was going to use Sims Three Horses, but I thought it be a better idea to provide all of you, with real horses to see the accurate coat colorations.
• Bay Ee/Aa or EE/AA
o Dark Bay
o Blood Bay
o Brown
• Chestnut ee/aa/Ff
o Liver Chestnut
o Sorrel
o Blonde/ light chestnut/ sandy
• Gray GG
o Salt and Pepper or “steel” gray
o Dapple Gray
o Flea-bitten Gray
o Rose Gray
• Black E/e
• Brindle
• Buckskin
• Champagne nCh
o Amber Champagne Ee Aa nCh
o Classic Champagne nCh nF
o Champagne Buckskin involves the nCh gene, can also be called Amber Cream
o Silver champagne- effect any of the other coats except gold champagne, and involves Ee and nZ
o Sable Champagne Ee Ata nCh
o Gold champagne nCh Ff nPrl
• Cremello CrCr
• Dun nD
o Grullo Ee nD
o Red Dun nD nF
o Bay Dun Ee Aa nD
o Buckskin Dun Ea Aa nD nCr
• Leopard nLp
o Blanket
o Varnish Roan
o Snowflake
o Leopard
o Few spot leopard LpLp
o Frost
• Palomino Crcr
• Pearl Prlprl
o Apricot Pearl nPrl
• Perlino Ee Aa CrCr
• Pinto
o Piebald Ee
o Skewbald any coat genetic
o nO
Frame Overo
Splashed White nSpl, is a gene that looks like the horse is dipped in paint, includes the feet being white, and the muzzle.
o Sabino nSb
o Tobiano nTb
o Tovero nTO
o Paint
• Rabicano nRb
• Roan Ee Crcr nRn
o Red Roan nRn
o Bay Roan Ee Aa nRn
o Blue Roan Ee nRn
• Silver Dapple Ee nZ
• Smoky Black Ee nCr
• Smoky Cream Ee CrCR
• White Ww
• Sooty Ee nSty
• Pangare
• Flaxen. nF FF
• Silver nZ ZZ
It took a long time gathering these images and hours at staring at coat patterns and stuff. So now that you have a good example and reference to real horse coats, (reminds me, if you know how a coat that I did not mention, please PM me, so that I can add it to this and make the coding for it)
So now Let’s get down to this mess…I use two Websites to calculate and figure out my horses genetics
Genetics Calculator Genetics Calculator, it allows you to figure out the parent’s genetics and the resulting foals
Horse Genetics Creator allows you to click in the resulting genetics form the previous website to see the results.
The reason I said that you need to know the name of your horse’s coat, is because the Calculator determines the Genetics of the coat you are using.
The Dam and Sir Section is exactly the same, if you notice in the corner of the page I circled the gray area. This determines the gray color; Gray is a gene that takes over the other genes…at the best explanation I can think of, most the time, a foal is born one color and turns gray over time. So this is how it works, Even if your horse is gray, you should always determine what the foal’s color was, or could have been without the Gray gene. A Foal who’s Genetics read nG means that there is a chance they can produce a foal with their other genetics instead of the Gray. However if there genetics read GG, they will always produce gray foals.
You have several options in the drop down window here they are for you to see clearly.
Select Color:
• Chestnut/sorrel
• Bay
• Black
• Palomino
• Buckskin
• Smoky black
• Cremello
• Perlino
• Smoky Cream
• Silver bay
• Silver Black(Silver Dapple)
• Silver Buckskin
• Silver Smoky Black
• Silver Perlino
• Silver Smoky Cream
• Ren Dun
• Bay Dun (Zebra Dun)
• Grullo (black Dun)
• Dunalino (Palomino Dun)
• Dunskin (Buckskin Dun)
• Smoky Grullo (smoky Black Dun)
• Cremello Dun
• Perlino Dun
• Smoky Cream Dun
• Chestnut Roan
• Bay Roan
• Blue Roan
• Palomino roan
• Buckskin Roan
• Smoky Black Roan
• Cremello Roan
• Perlino Roan
• Smoky cream Roan
• Silver Bay Roan
• Silver Black Roan
• Red Dun Roan
• Bay Dun Roan
• Grullo Roan
• Dunalino roan
• Dunskin Roan
• Smoky Grullo Roan
• Silver Bay Dun
• Silver Grullo (silver Black Dun)
• Gold Champagne
• Amber Champagne
• Classic Champagne
• Gold Cream Champagne
• Amber Cream Champagne
• Classic Cream Champagne
• Gold Champagne Dun
• Amber champagne Dun
• Classic Champagne Dun
• Gold Cream Champagne Dun
• Amber cream Champagne dun
• Classic Cream Champagne dun
• Silver Amber champagne
• Silver Classic Champagne
Solid:
• Frame Overo
• Sabino
• Splash
• Tobiano
• Frame/Sabino
• Tobiano/Frame
• Tobiano/Sabino
• Tobiano/Splash
• Frame/Splash
• Sabino/splash
• Tobiano/Frame/Sabino
• Tobiano/Frame/Splash
• Tobiano/Sabino/Splash
• Frame/Sabino/Splash
So Obviously after you have read all the options you’re probably freaking out because you don’t see examples of these coats in my collection. Well calm down, I promise you it’s not the end of the world. If you look at my collection, you will see that I have added the coding to some of the basic codes that are repeated in the options above.
Note: there are no options for the Leopard or appaloosa gene; there is an easy fix for this. Sabino and Tobiano can never occur on a horse’s body at the same time, they are both homozygous, because of this, if you are breeding a Leopard, with another horse; you can substitute Tobiano or Sabino for Leopard. If you’re breeding your leopard to one of these two horses that carry this gene you obviously pick its opposite. Leopard can occur on top of Tobiano and Sabino. I will show you how this works a little later. This can also work with the Robicano gene.
So How do you find the coats from the calculator even though I do not have them in the collection of photos, that’s easy, with the second website!
Yes this is a digital colored horse, but it is surprisingly as accurate as you can get without hunting for hours through internet photo’s trying to find an example of a coat. I’m about to show you a series of options, showing you some of the basic genetics on the horses including how to use the Leopard Gene creator and what happens if your select certain genotypes that do not cross together in the real world.
Piebald Leopard Patterns:
Here you see the Leopard Option, without the patterns on you only see the roan. Also I circled another image in the top right corner, this is the information area, and allows you to read about the gene you are currently viewing.
This is the First Pattern Selected.
Both Pattern ones selected.
Pattern two Selected.
Now even with both Pattern Two Selected, it does not do anything, it stays the same…now look what happens when you click both Lp with Pattern one selected.
Congrats! You have just created the Few Spot Appaloosa!! So basically what the double Lp with do, is it will fill in the holes…try out the different patterns on the site to see what you will get! Like the Snowcap Blanket!
So Now that you have seen these horses, It’s time to show you what happens if you say click both symbols for Overo, which is the button with the O on it.
Oh No!!! The Horse Disappeared!!! That is because of a disease called Lethal white Syndrome. If you click that little box I showed you earlier in the top right corner, it will tell you Exactly what this is, and why there is no horse on your screen
Now…for the next one, a white horse, is a white horse, and it is like the grey, it tramples over everything…but see what happens if you click on both the W+ Buttons?
It happened again! That’s because once more, it is a deadly combination, and the little info box will tell you why. So a though to consider when you are deciding what horses you plan on breeding!
So now that you have seen what some of this can do, play around with the Genetics for a while and get a feel, what colors can your create, what coats would you just die to have in your blood lines!
Moving on! Back to the genetics Calculator, I can now show you, how this will help you determine exactly what type of horse you really have! To make it simple, I’m going to select a Simple Bay tobiano as the sir, and a Palomino for the Mare!
Now after you have selected your horse…you’re going to hit continue. And it will take you to a new page!
This should be the screen that you get! With this screen is allows you to decided what is Dominate or recessive in your horse! I would suggest to always keep your options open for your horses to allow a wide arrange of colors, that is if it’s possible for the breed.
We’ll say this is possible, so I’m going to Click for the Sir; Red Carrier Ee, Heterozygous Aa, and Heterozygous nT.
For the Dam, I will choose Heterozygous Aa and Heterozygous nZ to give us the full list of possibilities!
So now that that is done…we are now going to go ahead and click calculate!
This should be the resulting page!! At the top of the page, there is a table showing your Sir’s color and the Dam, and Look it has their genetic coding to!!! And if your sir had been a Bay Leopard, you substitute the Tb with Lp or Rn if he was a Rabicano!
So it reads like this
Sir: Aa/Ee/nT
Dam: Aa/nCr/nZ
Now further down the page you have the offspring color probability area! Here is where you can select your foals!! In this area, you can decide on if you want ten possible foal choices or any number of possible choices you want. By hovering over a certain coat type, you can see just the genetic options for that particular foal.
Now this is a huge suggestion I advise all of you to do!! Invest in a journal, notebook, or any sort of book with blank pages, and keep a hard copy of the genetics and foal possibilities between the Horses from your stable!
In my record book I have the Stallion pared with the same two mares, and five foals selected from the possibilities along with the genetic markers written down.
This adds realism to the game, because of the chances of the foals being common or uncommon coat types for that pairing, and it shows the percentage of it happening.
If you select five coat types, you take a 100 sided dice, and split the five foals up with the numbers with the least possible choice last. My numbers read this 1-20 21-41 42-62 63-83 and 84-100. The 100 sided dice with determine which foal your horses have!!
And when you’re all through, your foals selected and the foal chosen to be born, you can return to the horse creator, and map out the genetic coding to see the foal choice! So let me choose a foal, something that is least likely to happen.
Ok foal selected…now to put him together in the horse creator!
And Walla!! Your finished foal!! I hope this helped all of you, and if you have any questions or suggestions please, please contact me and I’ll see how I can help!!
Note: if you have a better example of a real life horse then what I collected, please tell me and I will use it, if there is a coat that I don’t have, give me an example and I will use it, if you have a picture of a horse that I couldn’t not find examples for (I.E. the color calculator horses) please share them with me! No EA horse pictures will be used for this!
Disclaimer: I do not own the two websites I used; I simply use them to calculate the horse’s genetics. I also do not own any of the borrowed images of the real horses they belong to the respective owners that took the time to take the pictures and share them on the web. Nor do I have any rights to the EA games or the Sims Three mentioned in this Tutorial!
However I do own this created tutorial and reference to how to use these programs and calculating the genetics of your horses! As such this falls under a creative common’s copyright and under the copyright of the website http://www.copyrighted.com/ and can be subject to copyright laws for reposting or reusing this tutorial without consent of me the user or proper accreditations!