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CosmosisJane — AVH Color Guide Part I
Published: 2011-08-22 04:11:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 2201; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 21
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Phew!Part I of my insane AVH Color/Genetics guide project. After having some very interesting (and enlightening!) conversations on AVH with other players, I started getting VERY interested in equine color genetics and how they work in the game (which is similar, if exaggerated, to the way they work in real life). A few people suggested making an illustrated guide to how the game genetics work. AVH has a great Q&A section and a Wiki that break down the color alleles, etc., but sometimes seeing a complicated subject broken down in a different way (namely, with pictures!) helps novice, younger, or plain-old-confused players (like me) understand what's going on.
The next part will cover simple dilution colors (like classic champagne, palomino, and buckskin).
Anyway, this was pretty fun and working on it helped me increase my understanding of how all of this works.
Sorry if it's huge, I may adjust the canvas size if it's problematic.
Special thanks to Wikipedia, AVH Wiki, Pirate Princess, furlong47, Tiny Turtle, and Getting It Done. Extra-special thanks to Gatekeeper, the creator of A Virtual Horse, which is a stupid-fun game (for horse nerds like me)!
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i like both Howrse and AVH.i like AVH for the fact they pay attention to horse genetics,and i like howrse because most things in the game are made to be like real life,such as health,energy,and moral.i loves them both :3
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What would the alleles be of a Wild Bay horse with splash and a silver mane and tail? [link]
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Wild Bay is coded by the A+ Agouti gene, so if your horse is shown as Wild Bay, she's a Black (B) base (so Bb or BB), at least heterozygous A+ (A+ a), and possibly homozygous A+ (A+ A+).
She can't have any White, Roan, or Gray genes. Because she's Wild Bay, she cannot carry any Silver (Z) genes.
A horse with B and any Agouti gene active (without White, Gray, or Roan active) will always express as Silver Dapple Bay if there is even 1 Z gene (Zz) and always when homozygous (ZZ). But these are just the genetics rules for a game, AVH, though I'm fairly certain they can almost all be applied to real world equine genetics.
Splash is a marking gene, and if she's homozygous splash, she'll always produce splashed white foals. If she's heterozygous, she can throw splashed white or solid color foals (it's a 50/50 chance that she'll pass on the active Splash gene).
The silver mane and tail could be the result of a pangare effect--a primitive horse marking that lightens the inside of the legs, belly, and nose of a horse, and can also lighten the mane and tail. Usually, a Black base (B) horse with an Agouti modifier (A, AT, A+) will have a darker mane and tail. So my best explanation for your horse is that the splash marking hides the pangare fade, which only shows in the mane and tail.
Glad the guide helped!
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Origionally she was Chesnut Pangare but then my friend told me she looked like a Wild Bay with Splash and a silver factor or something, so I am just confused in general. I wont be changing her design at all, and it doesnt matter to me, like if it is realistic or not, but if she were a Wild Bay Splash with Silver, what would her alleles be?
And yes, it helped loads! xD You sound very smart about this stuff too lol. I know a few things, but nothing in depth so I always need help. I love learning about geenes and alleles and all that, though.
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She can't be Wild Bay with Silver. A horse with the Black gene (B) and the Wild Bay gene (A+)--and she needs both to express as Wild Bay at all--and then a Silver gene (Z) wouldn't be Wild Bay, it would be Silver Dapple Bay. In other words, Bay horses cannot carry the Z gene without expressing it, as Z is dominant where black hairs are present (B and A+). A Chestnut can carry, but not express, Z because it has no black hairs to dilute. A black horse with Z is Silver Dapple, Grulla with Z is Silver Grulla, Bay & Wild Bay with Z are Silver Dapple Bay, Seal Brown with Z is Silver Dapple Brown, Buckskin with Z is Silver Dapple Buckskin, Dun with Silver is Silver Dapple Dun, Dunskin with Silver is Silver Dapple Dunskin. Wild Bay is Wild Bay, not Wild Bay with a Silver Factor. There's no such thing.
So... I can't give you here alleles because they can't exist as you've described them. If she were Chestnut, she'd be something like:
b b (black)
a a (agouti)
w w (white)
g g (gray)
cr cr (cream)
d d (dun)
ch ch (champagne)
F f or FF (flaxen)
Z z or ZZ (silver)
rn rn (roan)
SP sp or SP SP (splash)
Baldface xo or xx
You can correct this whole issue by just making her Silver Dapple Bay (Bb A+ a, Zz), which would make her a Wild Bay base with a Silver Dilution (Silver Dapple Bay).
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I will make her a Silver Dapple Bay then 
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This really helped me out, thanks! and I play AVH, saw this on ur blog
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You're welcome! Glad it helped
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Yeah, I put it in my favs for refrence
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Thanks! Do you play on AVH?
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The game this guide is for, A Virtual Horse.
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