[Meoauniaea]

Welcome to Flying Fox Farms!
Born from a love of genetics and the desire to try new patterns, these are ADOPTABLE breedable horses that I am making to work on structured genetics, lineages, and generational inheritance. I am also focusing heavily on the art aspect, working with new techniques, patterns, and colors that I am trying to match by eye.

Note that in honor of Pride Month, all hooves and eyes of June adopts will have pride flag colors, or just bright colors!

I am unable to work much due to some health issues.

HOW TO ADOPT:

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Name: (keep the FFF, you may change the name)
Gender:
Halter Color: (Will be used to signify the design is sold!)
3 facts about them: (could be anything, like favorite snack or personality or what color their food bucket is)
NO ADOPTION FEE.

Post this ON THEIR PAGE and link the adopt in your trade, please! Everyone is FCFS
CLICK HERE to view the lineage for any adopt who is gen 2 or higher without parents listed.

My only rules:
1. Credit me for the design (TH: LorenFangor).
2. Don't resell without further art!
3. Keep the FFF before their names. FFF stands for Flying Fox Farms, and is the name of the project.

UPDATE 11/22/23
I've not posted in over two weeks. I apologize. I normally would add info when this happens but the truth is, NaNoWriMo has left me so addled I've had to drop a lot of things temporarily.
This isn't over, and won't be for another 600+ adopts!

UPDATE 10/26/23
Adopt 400 reached!
Bend Or spots added! Same rarity as Birdcatcher.
I will be be doing adopts very slowly in November due to NaNoWriMo.

UPDATE 10/3/23
Yesterday I woke up feeling ill. Went to the doc for nausea. Turns out I'm extremely sick and in quarantine for a week now. but at least the nausea is gone.

UPDATE 9/10/23
Added Manchado, which will be available for G1s after number 350.

UPDATE 9/2/23
I've got a new monitor. I like it so far.

UPDATE 8/29/23
Yesterday, my art monitor malfunctioned for the final time. I have gotten a replacement in but it has color issues. I will do my best to get a new monitor ASAP so please be patient while we work on getting things resolved.

UPDATE 8/4/23
We have reached number 300!

UPDATE 7/3/23
The surprise I mentioned on 6/1/23 is finally here: generation five!

UPDATE 6/30/23
I added a google sheets document with the generations and parents listed. I will try to keep this updated.

UPDATE 6/1/23
Pride month is back! and now it's genetic. Even though I said it wouldn't be.
Also, it's g3 time again. WOW. Then gen 4. then a special surprise!

UPDATE 5/31/23
I am updating the main image as I go, in order to reduce some confusion on my end.

UPDATE 5/8/23
I am ending the hiatus!

UPDATE 5/6/23
Apparently, every horse prior to 211 with Rabicano is incorrect. This includes more than 30 adopts, as near as I can tell, and I am NOT going to be updating them.

UPDATE 4/21/23
Apparently, a number of horses with the Sabino pattern are... wrong. As near as I can tell, the following adopts are affected:
70, 124
I am unsure at this time if these adopts will be corrected.

UPDATE 4/19/23
I updated the cover. I used a mouse and the gradient tool. Please don't judge me the pink horse is holding my fragile emotions together in a vague state of happy today.

UPDATE 3/27/23
HIATUS ANNOUNCEMENT
I will return to FFF in May. Thank you for your continued support. I have too much going on right now and I REALLY need a break from FFF and the stress it tends to cause. For every 12m design, I spend around 30-45 minutes doing the genetics, drafts, checking values, updating the excel file, and more. All of which you don't see. I need a break and I feel like reaching 200 has been a massive accomplishment.
For now, I'll be doing other linearts to ease my artblock.

UPDATE 3/10/23
We are nine days from the 1 year anniversary of Flying Fox Farms!
As such, for the next week, adoptions are FREE with a limit of two adopts per person, provided you still fill out the form!
As far as the 200 horse celebration, one addition I've planned on is adding rollable color mutations. I am still working out how these will pass on from parent to baby.

UPDATE 12/21/22
I am on hiatus for medical reasons. I had surgery 10/20/22 and since then I've repeatedly been sick. This will resume in 2023!

UPDATE 10/15/22
The next batch is Generation 3. Thanks to the spreadsheet, I'm ready for it, but it will take time.
Also, I have surgery this coming week, so art may take a break for up to a MONTH so I can heal.

UPDATE 9/30/22
I'm back! My goal is four adopts a week, or more if possible.
Thanks for your patience with my health issues.
Reminder: over 125 of these are still available! The adoption fee is a suggestion, not a requirement, and you can offer a single higher rarity pet to cover the full fee.

UPDATE 7/21/22
I took a small hiatus for health reasons. I will knock the next few out more slowly. The next month or two is going to be... chaotic.

UPDATE 6/10/22
I have updated the cover horse!

UPDATE 6/1/22
All the hooves and eyes of adopts for June (starting at 113) are pride flags!
Also, the first generation four horse is 113! Welcome home!

UPDATE 5/6/22
I am doing sets of eight with a common theme: solids, appaloosas, white markings, same base with different markings, etc. It helps me make this less monotonous.

UPDATE 4/22/22
I am on hiatus. Two days ago I lost my first service dog and I'm not okay right now. I'll continue this when I'm in a better place mentally.

UPDATE 4/8/22
I have instituted some backend quality of life changes that have dramatically sped up a part of the process.

UPDATE 4/4/22
I've not abandoned this, I found out with THREE DAYS' NOTICE that my new service dog was arriving! She got in last night so I'm taking a few days to spend extra time with her and do training walks. I also had to deep-clean the apartment to prepare and then I spent two days working for my mother in exchange for some extra cash that I'll be using for vet bills since she's not had all her shots and needs to be spayed.
So, quick break, because Padmé and I had such short notice about her coming home!

[Meoauniaea]

Genetics generator
Dice Gen

Adopt Form:
Name: FFF's
Gender:
Pattern Name:
Genetics:
Generation:
PLEASE SEE PARENT POST FOR ADOPTION INSTRUCTIONS.
Breedings: (0)


Overo Examples
Splash Examples
Tobiano Examples
Rabicano Examples
Sabino Examples




Genetics notes for rolling:
EE Ee ee (3)
At A A+ a (12)
GG Gg gg (3)
Cr prl cr (6)
DD Dd dd (3)
ChCh Chch chch (3)
FF Ff ff (3)
ZZ Zz zz (3)
STYSTY STYsty stysty (3)
RbRb Rbrb rbrb (3)

KIT:
==RnRn Rnrn+ rn+rn+ (3)
==Sb1Sb1 Sb1sb1+ sb1+sb1+ (3)
==Ww ww (2)
==TOTO Toto+ to+to+ (3)

Oo oo (2)
SPLSPL SPLspl splspl (3)
LpLp Lplp lplp (3)
PATN1 patn1 (3)
PATN2 patn2 (3)




ROLLABLES:
Rollables will only be possible starting at 200. Each horse may roll one time for each dice.
d24
4 Hoof Color (unrealistic hoof color) (20-2, 16-1) (DOMINANT)
14 Badger Face (20-7, 16-3) (DOMINANT)

d30
11 Birdcatcher (24-5, 20-4) (DOMINANT)
19 Bend Or Spots (24-23, 20-12) (DOMINANT) (400+)
26 Manchado (24-13, 20-6) (RECESSIVE) (350+)

d60
6 Lacing (30-3, 20-2) (RECESSIVE)
7 Brindle (30-4, 20-1)

d100
7 Chimera (60-4, 50-3) (RECESSIVE)
57 Somatic (60-28, 50-28) (RECESSIVE)

Saoirse says:
To my understanding;

When it's a chimera, you are in essence looking at two horses. It's a twin that fused together in the womb and thus has different genetics that were possible from those parents

Somatic is a gene that's damaged or something and doesn't cover everything, so that can be either a gene that doesn't work (for example, a bay where in a part of the fur the A gene doesn't work and thus looks black) or even appear as a whole new mutation together, for example making the fur 'broken' white or graying in that spot

[Meoauniaea]

Breeding Process:
1. Pick parents.
2. Pick out all single-outcome genetics.
3. Roll for non-single-outcome genetics.
4. Generate color name.
5. Do art.
6. Note on parent pages excel file the breeding, linking to foal.

ROLLABLES:
NO PARENTS HAVE IT:
roll as normal.

ONE PARENT HAS IT:
d24: Roll d20.
d30: roll d24.
d60: roll d30.
d100: roll d60.

BOTH PARENTS HAVE IT, DIFFERENT:
d24: Roll d20.
d30: roll d24.
d60: roll d30.
d100: roll d60.

BOTH PARENTS HAVE IT, SAME:
d24: Roll d16.
d30: roll d20.
d60: roll d24.
d100: roll d30 and d20, add together.

[Meoauniaea]

So, a quick FAQ:
-Can I adopt one? Do you sell designs?
No, these are not for adoption. If you are interested, I'd be willing to recreate a pattern of your choice though!
UPDATE 4/8/22: I will part with pets once they have been bred once! You may canonly keep their foals in their lives or cut them out and say they never existed.
If there is a G2 batch after the G1 batch, they have been bred! You may change gender/etc IDC.
Anything with a timer under an hour is three wishlist pets (common-uncommon).
Anything over an hour is one rare.
I doubt any exist that are over an hour, but that says a lot about my effort into some of the designs.

-Are these genetics based off real life?
Kinda. I'm using a generator for them, but I believe the genetics it uses may be out of date.. For my dog adopts, the answer is generally yes: I worked in canine genetics for several years.

-What will you do with the horses upon reaching your goal? What even is your goal?
My goal is to reach and create a generation 10 non-inbred pet with no gaps in lineage: both parents have two parents, as do their parents, all the way back a full ten generations.
After this concludes... I have no idea.

[Meoauniaea]

I am accepting coat color or pattern suggestions, post them on this topic!

COMING UP: G1 THEMES LIST
Black base (261-268)
Dun base (201-208)
Appaloosa (177-184)
Splash marking (189-196)
Tobiano marking (157-164)
Medicine Hat Tobianos (suggested by This user!) (213-220)
solids with birdcatcher spots(249-256)
Appaloosa (273-280)
Overo vs Tobiano (all males one, all females the other) (285-292)
Splash (297-304)
Chestnut (309-316)
Cream (321-328)
Roan (333-340)

Upcoming:

Greys
Dapples
Sooty
Champagnes
Roans
Pearls

[Meoauniaea]

The following designs are going to repainted on actual models for a charity sale!

Since this process is time intensive, I'll be retaining the rights to the following designs since I'm auctioning the physical models at a charity event:

https://www.chickensmoothie.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=4859077 207, who will be on a Breyer SM Magnolia Mold
https://www.chickensmoothie.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=4822544 183, who will likely be on a Breyer SM Reining Mold
https://www.chickensmoothie.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=4754350 136, who will be on a Breyer SM Cob Mold
https://www.chickensmoothie.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=4732839 78, who will be on a Breyer SM Reining Mold
https://www.chickensmoothie.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=4712036 1, who will be on a Breyer SM Andalusian Mold

[Meoauniaea]

Gen 2+ Breeding Process

First, I start with this.

This is a list of the latest adopts, all of whom are unbred. I sort them by gender, and make sure I can view the ID numbers for each adopt.

Next, I list out the stallion ID numbers, and pick what mare they will be bred with. I also assign the IDs and genders of the foals.

So in this example, 297 (stallion) and 300 (mare) will be bred, resulting in 305 (stallion).
The numbers to the far right correspond to the adopts as I view them. Here's the pairings visually:


Next, I isolate the genes that are guaranteed:

Both parents carry the same genes in this example for all guaranteed results, but there is a second scenario where I can do this, where parent 1 is EE and parent 2 is ee, resulting in a guaranteed Ee for the offspring.

Next, I roll dice for the other genes, and finish the genotype for the foal:

Usually I only need two dice for this, a d6 and a d4. Anything that has two outcomes is rolled as odds dominant and evens recessive, and anything with four outcomes is rolled as such:
rnto x RNTO
RNrn 1
RNto 2
TOrn 3
TOto 4
Pretty basic way of doing it.

The next step is to plug these into Jennifer Hoffman's generator to get the phenotype:

I then google real examples of the coat in sections:
Silver Dapple Dun
Horse with Splash
and reference those images for the actual design.

And.... that's it.
I also roll a d5 for the mane and tail.

[Inkeyu]

Marking! These are lovely!