Fire Dancer ''Equus Incendia Praesul'' Breedsheet

Its here, its here

Ahem...

So this took long enough. But my life has once again been nuts. I have my exam resit in a week (panic mode), and a post tried to kill me when I reversed my car earlier (more panic), so I'm kind of down at the minute. I'm hanging in there by chanting to myself that this time next year, all my problems right now will seem stupid. Maybe getting some sleep will help, too...

Anyway; this kept getting longer and longer, so there are still things missing, and a ton more detail I wanted on there. I've decided there will need to be some other sheets for that so eventually I will draw the Coffin Zone for you, and the special mattresses, and even put together a guide on how to wrap their hooves (and draw them the way I do, if you want) but for now, the important parts are covered below.

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Not an open breed! First two Adoption Batches:

Sale--------Sale------Adoption

Read the story in the comments here to get a better idea of how these horses are

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Things mentioned in the sheet that need further explanation:

Name
"Equus Incendia Praesul" - The latin name for the Fire Dancer.
Nicknames include: EIP, FD, Dancer, Fire horse, Pyro pony...

Conformation
A horse with any conformation listed as a fault should not be bred from, though there is no law stating the horse should be gelded or spayed.

Uses/Breeding
Other horses tend to be wary of the fires around the FDs, but with time and desensitizing, they can be kept together and even breed.
However, the fires are recessive and will not appear on a foal unless the other parent was a cross and passes on their recessive gene.
In a crossed foal, it is more likely they will have the FD's penchant for constant movement (Dancer's have ADHD ), their likelihood for stable vices and their people-oriented and keen to learn personalities, though there are exceptions.

All foals are born with their coats on fire. This is a sign of good health. Their colour can only be properly determined after the first two hours when the coat dies down.

**I will put a breeding Info sheet together at some point, but until then, cross breeding is not permitted for the breed**

Colours and Genes
The smoke gene, if present, affects all white hairs, but only 'kills' the hairs in the mane and tail. smoke hairs in the coat will still catch.
Blue, red or golden hairs - colloquially known as 'Ignition strands' - may be in the mane and tail, regardless of the horse's colour. They will be visible from birth. They are the result of a pair of alleles (Ig/ig) and are recessive. IgIg will result in no ignition strands while igig will cause them to appear. Igig means the horse is a carrier.
A single copy of the cream gene results in rarer colours but two copies - cremello/perlino etc - work the way Lethal White Syndrome does. The foal may be aborted before it is carried to term, or die within a few days of birth.
There is also no pearl or champagne within the breed.

Some colour explanations:

Ash: A grey that will only grey out to a smoky colour, due to the presence of the smoke gene, affecting the white pigment.
Marble: How the smoke gene affects a horse with a roan gene. The head and legs remain unaltered, while the white hairs in the coat are altered to shades of grey.
Sand: The smoke gene on palomino, which can resemble the sooty gene. Coat is unaffected, but the white mane and tail become grey. The easiest way to differentiate between sand and sooty palomino is sand will have a ‘dead’ mane and tail.
Lavender: a pale foal, almost lilac in colour. This is effectively, a manifestation of the ‘Lavender Foal Syndrome’ seen in Arabian horses, but without the immunity and coordination problems.
Chimera: A meshing of two separate sets of DNA that merge two distinct coat colours into one horse.

Eye Colours: Shades of brown, Amber, Tan, burgundy.
Ghost Eyes appear silver and can occur on any coloured Dancer with any genetic code. An anomaly, not yet studied extensively, but can be quite desireable. Because of lack of study, the rule currently is: A 25% chance a foal may have Ghost eyes if one parent did.
The inner rim of the iris may light up blue in moments of heightened emotion, but this does not take over the whole eye colour and will fade to normal.

Coffin zone: Area of the face from below the forelock roots, anywhere between the eyes, and then down the profile to between the nostrils. Face markings outside of this area is less common, but pink flesh marks may occur.


Banned Substances
Coats may be swabbed and tested at random during breed specific shows to ensure they have not been treated.
Alcohol, kerosene, oil or ethanol can be given as a drink and this essentially heightens emotion, prompts rapid physical response and can overload the senses - like a kid on too much candy, especially when mixed with the Dancers' ADHD.
None of the banned substances should be used for a week before a show, to ensure there is no trace left.

Alcohol and kerosene particularly, however, are good to boost blood sugar levels in sick FDs.

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Probably still other bits I've missed, but its really late and I need sleep. If you have questions I haven't answered, ask away, and I'll add them in somewhere

I will put plans together for a breeding info sheet, and a colour/genetics sheet. Possibly a training one, but we'll see...


Took a good few hours to piece all my cluttered ideas XD
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Parchment was an image taken off of google ages ago. I'll see if I can find a link in the morning. Its not mine, guys
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