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First of all, Welcome to HOC! Now that you're here you will find help and assistance in creating your little bundles of fun, everything in this thread is listed below...


Character Bio Form

Character Acceptance Form

Virus Specifications

Horse Breeds and Information


Everything you need to know to get started is right there. If you need any help, please contact a staff member.

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Character Bio

This is the code we require you to use when making a character. Do not modify the form so much we cannot understand it.


Picture: Required. Please make sure its stock & post a link so the staff can check it.
secret word:
Name:Your characters name.
Breed: Your characters breed.
Age: How old is your character?
Gender: Is your character a stallion or mare?
Infected by?: remember to read the infection information!
Pelt Color: What color is your character? No odd colors, keep it relative to the breed please!
Mane and Tail color: What color is your characters mane and tail?
Eye Color: Remember only solid colors.
Markings: What markings does your character have, if any.
Height: How tall is your character? Remember it only goes up to .3 so no 16.7hh. and keep it real...no 16hh shetlands, okay?
Personality: Your character's personality. At least 100 words.
History: Your characters history. At least 100 words.
RP Example: At least 200 words. Only needed for your first character.
What do you think of our rules? Optional.
Is there anything we can change? If so, what? Optional.
Where did you find us? Optional.

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[b]Picture:[/b] Required. Please make sure its stock & post a link so the staff can check it.
[b]secret word:[/b]
[b]Name:[/b]Your characters name.
[b]Breed:[/b] Your characters breed.
[b]Age:[/b] How old is your character?
[b]Gender:[/b] Is your character a stallion or mare?
[b]Infected by?:[/b] remember to read the infection information!
[b]Pelt Color:[/b] What color is your character? No odd colors, keep it relative to the breed please!
[b]Mane and Tail color:[/b] What color is your characters mane and tail?
[b]Eye Color:[/b] Remember only solid colors.
[b]Markings:[/b] What markings does your character have, if any.
[b]Height:[/b] How tall is your character? Remember it only goes up to .3 so no 16.7hh. and keep it real...no 16hh shetlands, okay?
[b]Personality:[/b] Your character's personality. At least 100 words.
[b]History:[/b] Your characters history. At least 100 words.
[b]RP Example:[/b] At least 200 words. Only needed for your first character.
[b]What do you think of our rules? [/b]Optional.
[b]Is there anything we can change?[/b] If so, what? Optional.
[b]Where did you find us?[/b] Optional. [/size]

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Character acceptance form.

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We will use this form when accepting your characters.

Photo is stock/cc licensed?:
Secret word:
Character name available:
Height and coat correct for breed:
Personality & History are 100 words:
No super powers unusual to infection:
RP example?:


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[b]Secret word:[/b]
[b]Character name available:[/b]
[b]Height and coat correct for breed:[/b]
[b]Personality & History are 100 words:[/b]
[b]No super powers unusual to infection:[/b]
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Virus Information

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Remains undetected throughout life unless triggered by D951 or S666. When mixed can have the same, but less intense, symptoms as the others. Sufferers of P176 go through out life with a sense of euphoria and they heal quicker than most, a deep wound would be scabbed over within two days. Their vision and hearing are increased but their taste sense is low. All P176 carriers will pass the genes down to the children who will suffer the same symptoms.[/size][/font]



.D951.[/font]

Sufferers of D951 will have symptoms of disease but not as prominent as S666. Wounds and lesions are likely to appear out of nowhere, and the healing process will be prolonged. Pain will appear out of nowhere and will vary from a dull thud to crippling, but these will last no loner than a few minutes. Patches of their coat may become duller or brighter. They will be bleed for longer and have a lower self esteem than sufferers of P176. There will be no change to the senses but are more likely to hallucinate. They have a higher mortality rate and their young grow up strong, despite carrying the infection.[/size][/font]

.S666.[/font]

S666 is the worst. Deep and long lacerations will appear on the skin, the equine will find it has a craving for other animals. It is prone to hallucinating, a strong sense of paranoia or heightened aggravation. Skin will randomly fall off but then re-heal perfectly within a week. They feel less pain than most but their wounds are usually intensified dramatically. Foals born from parents with S666 and D951 are occasionally mutilated.


All diseases allow certain 'high points'.
These include:
- A higher rate of twins.
- Able to be submerged under water for up to ten minutes.
- To 'play dead'.
- To have two years at the start of their life of not showing the virus at all.
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Horse Colors

* Bay: Body color ranges from a light reddish-brown to very dark brown with "black points." (Points refer to the mane, tail, and lower legs). The main color variations are:
Dark bay: very dark red or brown hair, also called "black bay," "mahogany bay," or "brown."
Blood bay: bright red hair, the shade variation often considered simply "bay."
Light bay: lighter than a blood bay, but hairs still clearly more red than gold
Magonary Bay: Very dark red, with black points.

* Chestnut/Sorrel:A reddish body color with no black. Mane and tail is the same shade or lighter than the body coat. The main color variations are:
Liver chestnut: very dark brown coat. Sometimes a liver chestnut is also simply called "brown."
Sorrel: Reddish-tan to red coat, about the color of a new penny. The most common shade of chestnut.
Blond or light chestnut: seldom-used term for lighter tan coat with pale mane and tail that is not quite a dun.

* Brown: All "brown" horses are either genetically bay if they carry the "E" gene or genetically chestnut if they do not. Absent DNA testing, this is usually determined by looking closely at the mane, tail and legs for the presence of black points.

* Black: There are two types of black, fading black and non-fading black. Most black horses will fade to a brownish color if the horse is exposed to sunlight on a regular basis. Non-fading black is a blue-black shade that does not fade in the sun. Most black foals are usually born a mousy grey or dun color. As their foal coat begins to shed out, their black color will show through, though in some breeds black foals are born jet black. For a horse to be considered black, it must be completely black except for white markings. A sun-bleached black horse is still black, even though it may appear to be a dark bay or brown. A visible difference between a true black and a dark chestnut or bay is seen in the fine hairs around the eyes and muzzle; on a true black these hairs are black, even if the horse is sun-bleached, on other colors, they will be lighter.

* Gray/Grey: A horse with black skin and white or mixed dark and white hairs. Gray horses can be born any color, lighten as they age, and eventually most will have either a completely white or "fleabitten" hair coat. Most "white" horses are actually grays with a fully white hair coat. A gray horse is distinguished from a white horse by dark skin, particularly noticeable around the eyes, muzzle, flanks, and other areas of thin or no hair. Variations of gray a horse may exhibit over its lifetime include:
Salt and Pepper or "steel" gray: Usually a younger horse, an animal with white and dark hairs evenly intermixed over most of the body.

* Dapple gray: a dark-colored horse with lighter rings of graying hairs, called dapples, scattered throughout.

* Fleabitten gray: an otherwise fully white-haired horse that develops red hairs flecked throughout the coat.

* Rose gray: a gray horse with a reddish or pinkish tinge to its coat. This color occurs with a horse born bay or chestnut while the young horse is "graying out."

* Brindle: One of the rarest colors in horses. Characteristics are any color with "zebra-like" stripes, but most common is a brown horse with faint yellowish markings.

* Buckskin: A bay horse with one copy of the cream gene, a dilution gene that 'dilutes' or fades the coat colour to a yellow, cream, or gold while keeping the black points (mane, tail, legs).

* Champange: Produced by a different dilution gene than the cream gene. It lightens both skin and hair, but creates a metallic gold coat color with mottled skin and light colored eyes. Champagne horses are often confused with palomino, cremello, dun, or buckskins.

* Cremello: A horse with a chestnut base coat and two cream genes that wash out almost all color until the horse is a pale cream or light tan color. Often called "white," they are not truly white horses, and they do not carry the white (W) gene. A cremello usually has blue eyes.

* Dun: Yellowish or tan coat with "primitive" markings, sometimes called "dun factors:" a darker-colored mane and tail, a dorsal stripe along the back and occasionally faint horizontal zebra stripings on the upper legs and a possible transverse stripe across the withers. There are several variations of dun:

* Grulla/Grullo: Grullo or Blue Dun: A black horse with the dun gene. Coat is solid "mouse-colored" gray or silver with black or dark gray dun factors.
Red dun: A chestnut base coat with dun factors. Coat is usually pale yellow or tan with a red mane, tail, and striping.
"bay dun" or "zebra dun" is terminology sometimes used to describe the classic dun color of yellow or tan with black mane and tail when necessary to distinguish it from red duns or grullos.
"Buckskin dun" describes a dun that also carries the cream gene dilution and has a coat of pale gold with black mane, tail, legs and primitive markings.

* Leopard Appaloosa: dark spots of varying sizes over a white body.

* Blanket Appaloosa: white over the hip that may extend from the tail to the base of the neck. The spots inside the blanket (if present) are the same color as the horse's base coat.

* Varnish Roan: a mix of body and white hairs that extends over the entire body--no relation to true roan

* Snowflake: white spots on a dark body. Typically the white spots increase in number and size as the horse ages.

* Frost: similar to varnish but the white hairs are limited to the back, loins, and neck

* Palomino: chestnut horse that has one cream dilution gene that turns the horse to a golden, yellow, or tan shade with a flaxen or white mane and tail. Often cited as being a color "within three shades of a newly minted gold coin," palominos range in shades from extremely light, almost cremello, to deep chocolate, but always with a white or flaxen mane and tail.

* Perlino: similar to a cremello, but acts genetically a bay base coat with two dilute genes. Eyes are usually blue. Mane, tail and points are not black, but are usually darker than the body coat, generally a reddish or rust color, not to be confused with a red dun.

* Piebald: a black and white spotting pattern (Paint/Pinto)

* Skewbald: a spotting pattern of white and any other color other than black, or a spotting pattern of white and two other colors, which may include black. (Pinto/Paint)

* Tabiano: Spotting pattern characterized by rounded markings with white legs and white across the back between the withers and the dock of the tail, usually arranged in a roughly vertical pattern and more white than dark, with the head usually dark and with markings like that of a normal horse. i.e. star, snip, strip, or blaze. (Pinto/Paint)

* Overo: Spotting pattern characterized by sharp, irregular markings with a horizontal orientation, usually more white than dark, though the face is usually white, often with blue eyes. The white rarely crosses the back, and the lower legs are normally dark. Variations include "Frame Overo" and "Spash White." (Pinto/Paint)

* Sabino: Often confused with roan or rabicano, a slight spotting pattern characterized by high white on legs, belly spots, white markings on the face extending past the eyes and/or patches of roaning patterns standing alone or on the edges of white markings (Pinto/Paint)

* Tovero: spotting pattern that is a mix of tobiano and overo coloration, such as blue eyes on a dark head. May also refer to horses with Tobiano coloring that carry a recessive overo gene. (pinto/Paint)

* Red Roan: A bay base coat with roaning pattern with the mane and tail being the same red as the body. Red roans are not to be reffered to as Strawberry Roans for they have the blackened points.

* Strawberry Roan: Strawberry roan is roaning on a chestnut base. Do not have the black points, look more like a chestnut with roaning.

* Blue Roan: A black with roaning pattern, not to be confused with a gray or a blue dun/grullo. Grays not only lighten with age, but their heads tend to lighten before the rest of their bodies, while a roan tends to have a darker head. A blue dun will usually be a solid color and have dun striping, a blue roan has mixed-color hairs.

* Rabicano:A roan-like effect that is caused by a genetic modifier that creates a mealy, splotchy, or roaning pattern on only part of the body, usually limited to the underside, flanks, legs, and tail head areas. Unlike a true roan, much of the body will not have white hairs intermingled with solid ones, nor are the legs or head significantly darker than the rest of the horse.

* Silver Dapple: Caused by a dilution gene that only acts upon black hair pigment, it lightens black body hair to a chocolate brown and the mane and tail to silver. The gene may be carried but will not be visible on horses with a red base coat. (also known as Chocolate, Flax, Taffy)

* Silver Bay: Like a bay expect it got white mane and tail

* Silver Dun: Silver dun// Silver Golden Dun// Silver Blue dun

* White: One of the rarest colors, a white horse has white hair and pink skin. These horses are born white, with blue or brown eyes, and remain white for life. A truly white horse occurs one of two ways: either by inheriting one copy of the dominant white (W) gene, or by being a "fully expressed" sabino (essentially a horse that is one big white spot). The vast majority of "white" horses are actually grays with a fully white hair coat. As noted above, there are no true albinos in the horse world. Gernally caused by the lethal double overo gene. White is generally lethal in horses.

* Dunalino: Mixed with dun and palomino [it looks like palomino expect for black socks (where there is no white) and doresl stripe down the back.

* Dunskin: Mixed with dun and buckskin.

All color information came from Wikipediea Link

Markings:

* Blaze: a wide white stripe down the middle of the face.

* Strip, stripe, or race: a narrow white stripe down the middle of the face.

* Bald Face: a very wide blaze, extending to or past the eyes. Some, but not all, bald faced horses also have blue eyes.

* Star: a white marking between or above the eyes. If a stripe or blaze is present, a star must be significantly wider than the vertical marking to be designated separately.

* Snip: a white marking on the muzzle, between the nostrils.

* Stocking: white marking that extends at least to the bottom of the knee or hock, sometimes higher

* Sock: white marking that extends higher than the fetlock but not as high as the knee or hock. This marking is sometimes called a "boot."

* Fetlock or Sock: white marking that extends over the fetlock, occasionally called a "boot."

* Pastern: white marking that extends above the top of the hoof, but stops below the fetlock

* Coronet: white just above the hoof, around coronary band, usually no more than 1 inch (2.5cm) above the hoof.

Pony Breeds:

* American Shetland: 11.1 hands
* Australian Pony: 12-14 hands
* Avelignese: 13.2-14.2 hands
* Basuto: 14.2 hands
* Batak: 12-13 hands
* Bhutia: 13-13.2 hands
* Burmese: 13 hands
* Camargue: 15 hands
* Caspian: 10-12 hands.
* Chincoteague/Assateague: 12 hands.
* Connemara Pony: 13-14.2 hands
* Criollo: 14-15 hands
* Dales Pony: 14.2 hands
* Dartmoor Pony: 11-12.3 hands
* Dulmen: 12.2 hands
* Exmoor Pony: 11-12 hands.
* Fallabella: 7 hands.
* Fell Pony: 13-14 hands.
* Galiceno: 12-13.2 hands
* Garrano: 10-12 hands
* Gotland: 12-12.2 hands
* Haflinger: 14.2 hands
* Hackney Pony: 12.2-14 hands
* Highland Pony: 13-14.2 hands
* Hucul: 12-13 hands
* Icelandic: 12-13 hands
* Java: 12.2 hands
* Kazakh: 12.2-13.2 hands
* Konik: 13 hands.
* New Forest Pony: 12.2-14.2 hands
* Newfoundland Pony: 11 - 14.2 hands
* Fjord: 13-15 hands
* Peneia: 14 hands
* Pindos: 12-13 hands
* Pony of the Americas: 11.2-13.2 hands
* Przewalski's Horse: 12-14 hands
* Sable Island Pony: 14 hands
* Sandalwood: 12-13 hands
* Shetland Pony: 9-10.3 hands
* Skyros: 11 hands
* Sorraia: 12.2-13 hands
* Sumba/Sumbawa: 12.2 hands
* Tarpan: 13 hands
* The Welsh Pony of Cob Type: 13.2 hands
* Timor: 11-12 hands
* Welsh Cob: 14.2 hands
* Welsh Mountain: 12 hands
* Welsh Pony: 13.2 hands

Horse Breeds:

* Akhal - Teke: 15-16 hands
* American Mustang: 13-16 hands
* American Paint: 14-16 hands
* American Saddlebred: 15-16 hands
* Andalusian: 15-16 hands
* Anglo-Arab: 16-16.3 hands
* Appaloosa: 13 - 15.3 hands
* Arabian: 14-15 hands
* Australian Brumby: 13.3 - 15.1 hands
* Australian Stock Horse: 15-16 hands
* Azteca: 14-16 hands
* Bashkir Curly: 13.3 -15.1 hands
* Canadian Horse: 14-16.2 hands
* Canadian Warmblood: 15.2-17 hands
* Cleveland Bay: 16-16.2 hands
* Crillo: 13.3-15.1 hands
* Danish Warmblood: 15.3-17 hands
* Dutch Warmblood: 16-17 hands
* Flordia Cracker: 13.3-15.2 hands
* Frederiksborg: Averages 15.3 hands
* French Trotter: Averages 16.2 hands
* Furioso: 15-16 hands
* Gelderland: 15.2-16.3 hands
* Hackney Horse: 15 hands
* Haflinger: 13.2 - 15 hands
* Hanoveiran: 15.1-17 hands
* Holsteiner: 16-17 hands
* Irish Draught: 15-17 hands
* Kaimanawa: 13.2-15 hands
* Kathiawari: 13.2-15 hands
* Kiger Mustang: 14.1-15 hands
* Knabstrup: 15.1-16 hands
* Lipizzan: 15-16 hands
* Lusitano: 15-16 hands
* Missouri Fox Trotter: 14.2-16 hands
* Morab: 14.2-15.3 hands
* Morgan:14-15 hands
* National Show Horse: 14-16.2 hands
* Oldenburg: 16-17.2 hands
* Orlov Trotter: 15.3-16 hands
* Paso Fino: 13-15 hands
* Peruvian Paso: 14-15 hands
* Quarter Horse: 14-16.3 hands
* Racking Horse: 15-16 hands
* Rocky Mountain Horse: 14.2-16 hands
* Selle Francias: 16-17 hands
* Shagya Arabian: 15-16 hands
* Spanish Barb: 13.3-15 hands
* Standerdbred: 15-16 hands
* Tennessee Walking Horse: 14.1-17 hands
* Thoroughbred: 16.1 hands
* Trakehner: 16-17 hands

Draft Breeds:

* American Cream Draft: 15.3-16.3
* Ardennias: 14.3-16 hands
* Belgian: 15-17 hands
* Clydesdale: 16-18 hands
* Friesian: 14-17 hands
* Gypsy Vanner: 13-15.2 hands
* Jutland: 15-16.1 hands
* Noriker: 15.3-17 hands
* Percheron: 16-18 hands
* Shire: 16-19 hands
* Suffolk Punch: 16.1-17 hands
©2009, *--- shorty of WEv2
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