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CLASSIFICATION
Species: Mesfes (equine)
Subspecies: Krofi horse
Breed: Forest, Grass, Desert, Mountain
DESCRIBTION AND ABILITIES (General for all krofi breeds)
Lifespan: 25-30yo
Life cycle: nursing foal 3-6months, weanling to 1yo, yearling to 2yo, adolescent to 3yo, adult till 20, senior 20+
Breeding details: Chance for twins 88+, no more than two foals at once
Extra pictures for proper offspring growth: Foal with alteast one of parents, playing foal
Wild behavior:
Horses are sociable creatuers. They stick in herds. Herd consists of separated smaller bands sharing one territory, size of band ranges of 2-25 individuals, mostly mares and their offsprings. There's 1-5 stallions. Each band has it's own lead stallion as only stallion present in band. Stallion watches over his band, preventing predator attacks and incomming males intending to mate with his mares.
Stallions challenge each other to establish dominance.
Horses spend most of day by grazing or traveling long distances in between grazing spots. In herd hierarchy determines who eats and drinks first. It might occure that horses of lowest rank don't get to eat at all.
Horses decide whether to run from danger or use nature for to cover. If there's enemy in inevitable proximity, horses will run. If they smell or see enemy from a distance, they will from herd camouflage, which makes them basically invisible, as it eliminates even smells. If predators get's too close to herd while camouflaged, some stallions us element of suprise to attack or chase it away, since foals yet don't know how to fully use natural form and might be vulnarable. Horses can sleep standing or laying down, their nature forms are activated while sleeping and instinct of a herd is to sleep close to each other, some standing some laying. This mass behavior makes them even less visible.
Domestic behavior:
Stays the same as in wild. Stallions need of dominancy prevails, and often is required to separate stallions and geldings from mares or other stallions. However heatlhy herd can benefit from presence of strong adult mare.
As there's not immidiate need to use natural form, some horses are slower in learning how to use it. Some horses in domesticity never reveal nature form.
Stable requirements:
Big enough stall to fit size of a horse. Stall needs to be well ventilated and drained. It's good to keep windows to provide natural lighting and even some opening, so horse can look outside.
Paddock needs to be positioned in safe terrain so horses cannot hurt themself. Water or trees can be present, but there should be enough grass so horses can graze. Paddock shoudln't be swampy.
FOREST BREED
SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
1 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
-2 | 0 | 3 |
3 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
Examples of forest coats. |
DESERT BREED
SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Desert symbol |
Habitat: Northern Coldaria inland deserts and warm grassy plains
Feed: regular horse food, dethorned cactus, cactus fruit, palm leafs
Examples of desert coats. |
GRASS BREED
SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | -2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Grass symbol |
Habitat: Grassy plateaus and prairies of eastern Terrateka, lowlands
Feed: Regular horse foods, blooming flowers (even poisonous ones), various berries
Examples of grass coats. |
MOUNTAIN BREED
SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
Mountain symbol |
Habitat: hills and mountains of noth-east Terrateka
Feed: regular horse food, lichens, pine leafs
TRIVIA
- Most krofies can change coats according to seasons
- You can harvest herbs from your horse, but they shouldn't be pullet out with roots (as roots are usually rooted in the horse)
- You can polish stone parts of mountain hores's natur form, just don't go too deep
- There's no 'regular' real world horses in World of Colderra universum, so Krofis take their place
- Did you know that partial reason for creation of krofi horses were Farrosian horses with their fire form and idea of two-coated creature?
- Originally they were called "forest horse" in global, but it got confusing with creation of desert, mountain and grass breeds