Post by Bluewolf on May 24, 2012 15:59:46 GMT -8
Karrs
The great stallion was lonely, despite having the company of gods. He looked down from his home and watched the horses that ran across the range, the feel of sod and grass beneath their hooves, and he grew lonelier. Finally he descended to their world and for a few wonderful days in his millenia of life, he was happy.
And so it was he fell in love with a beautiful mare, she of silvery gray and black, mane and tail of midnight silk. But he could not take her with him. On his last day, he promised to return each year for a day, so that they may see each other again.
She became pregnant and each year after his visit she bore the stallion a beautiful son, each displaying one of the seven colors of their father’s own changing eye color. The eighth year at the time of their meeting, the mare did not show up, and instead the stallion was greeted by his seven sons. They told of the mare’s sickness, and at the very end how her biggest regret was not being able to say goodbye to her greatest love.
In his sorrow, he cast away his immortality and dispersed his essence between his sons. He was never seen again. His sons beget their own progeny, and therein displayed their father’s legacy. For each filly born, she was adorned with colorful patterns displaying three varying colors and for each colt, his eyes displayed the color.
It is this progeny that you see today, displaying the same colors and beautiful bearing of both the stallion, his mare, and their sons.
When breeding your Karr, it is important to know of certain specifics that will result in the right foal for you. Most importantly, it is the Karr stallion that carry the color gene, and not the mare. You can breed a Karr stallion to any mare and produce the desired colors and genders, whereas if you were to breed a Karr mare to a normal stallion, the resultant foal will be normal, albeir displaying the finely chiseled apperance of the Karr breed and always female.
This mixed breeding of a Karr stallion and normal mare does not make the foal a Karr. Typically half bred Karrs do not display the finer qualities of a true Karr. And any foals, unless the half Karr was bred back to a true Karr, are normal. It is nature’s way of keeping the Karr breed largely undiluted.
It is this quirky trait that allows for any base color altered by dun to be allowed in the gene pool, but also keeps the original stallion line from dying out. Another important factor is color. While the colors never mix, they do vary in shades from one filly to the next. Each Karr filly is born with three colors, usually within several shades of each other. The colt’s eyes can be any shade of his father’s eye color. Meaning an olive green-eyed stallion can produce a hunter green-eyes colt.
Karrs are typically straight or concaved in profile, with a very noble appearance. The necks are long and sinewy, attached to sloping shoulders and slightly defined withers. The barrel is thin and tapering with a long and strong back, sloping quarters and thin strong legs. The hooves are hard and very rarely need to be shoed. Manes and tails are elegant and well set, with some mares having wonderfully long and silky hair. Ferlocks are slightly feathered.
Herds are mare-dominant, with one mare the leader and herd protector. She allows many colts and stallions in the herd, so long as no fighting is rampant. She will run a particularly cantankerous stallion or colt away, and these rouges will find another herd to settle in. more often than not it is common to see a rogue Karr stallion with a herd of common mares.
They are modeled off of mustangs
Height: 14-17 hh
Weight: 900-1200 lbs
The great stallion was lonely, despite having the company of gods. He looked down from his home and watched the horses that ran across the range, the feel of sod and grass beneath their hooves, and he grew lonelier. Finally he descended to their world and for a few wonderful days in his millenia of life, he was happy.
And so it was he fell in love with a beautiful mare, she of silvery gray and black, mane and tail of midnight silk. But he could not take her with him. On his last day, he promised to return each year for a day, so that they may see each other again.
She became pregnant and each year after his visit she bore the stallion a beautiful son, each displaying one of the seven colors of their father’s own changing eye color. The eighth year at the time of their meeting, the mare did not show up, and instead the stallion was greeted by his seven sons. They told of the mare’s sickness, and at the very end how her biggest regret was not being able to say goodbye to her greatest love.
In his sorrow, he cast away his immortality and dispersed his essence between his sons. He was never seen again. His sons beget their own progeny, and therein displayed their father’s legacy. For each filly born, she was adorned with colorful patterns displaying three varying colors and for each colt, his eyes displayed the color.
It is this progeny that you see today, displaying the same colors and beautiful bearing of both the stallion, his mare, and their sons.
When breeding your Karr, it is important to know of certain specifics that will result in the right foal for you. Most importantly, it is the Karr stallion that carry the color gene, and not the mare. You can breed a Karr stallion to any mare and produce the desired colors and genders, whereas if you were to breed a Karr mare to a normal stallion, the resultant foal will be normal, albeir displaying the finely chiseled apperance of the Karr breed and always female.
This mixed breeding of a Karr stallion and normal mare does not make the foal a Karr. Typically half bred Karrs do not display the finer qualities of a true Karr. And any foals, unless the half Karr was bred back to a true Karr, are normal. It is nature’s way of keeping the Karr breed largely undiluted.
It is this quirky trait that allows for any base color altered by dun to be allowed in the gene pool, but also keeps the original stallion line from dying out. Another important factor is color. While the colors never mix, they do vary in shades from one filly to the next. Each Karr filly is born with three colors, usually within several shades of each other. The colt’s eyes can be any shade of his father’s eye color. Meaning an olive green-eyed stallion can produce a hunter green-eyes colt.
Karrs are typically straight or concaved in profile, with a very noble appearance. The necks are long and sinewy, attached to sloping shoulders and slightly defined withers. The barrel is thin and tapering with a long and strong back, sloping quarters and thin strong legs. The hooves are hard and very rarely need to be shoed. Manes and tails are elegant and well set, with some mares having wonderfully long and silky hair. Ferlocks are slightly feathered.
Herds are mare-dominant, with one mare the leader and herd protector. She allows many colts and stallions in the herd, so long as no fighting is rampant. She will run a particularly cantankerous stallion or colt away, and these rouges will find another herd to settle in. more often than not it is common to see a rogue Karr stallion with a herd of common mares.
They are modeled off of mustangs
Height: 14-17 hh
Weight: 900-1200 lbs