Gilt Sparrows - a Fifty Foal Challenge
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Thanks. I was all set to adopt the original wild pinto mare, but then both of the mares turned out to be elders and died within a day of each other. Fortunately I liked the new pinto, because I really don't like the liver chestnut that replaced the black mare. I had the relationship set, and was just waiting for an open slot so I could adopt the first one . . . when she died. :cry: The original story was going to be that she and her foal were released back into the wild, but Annie arrived too late for that plot line. What I thought was really funny, though, was that Annie was replaced by a mustang mare that I designed for this challenge (although with the wrong mane/tail) but wasn't planning to use until later!
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Gilt Orchid reached the end of his training, and was taken down to the EC to sell. Perhaps because of his zebra blood, or maybe just because he hadn't all the bad stories about him that his dam had, he sold for nearly twice as much as Honeysuckle - $9900.
Bill, rather unexpectedly had a birthday and became an elder. He was determined not to get out of shape though, and kept up his strength exercises. (This was really quite strange, as Katie was supposed to be several days older than he was, but still had a week until she became an elder. I think there's some sort of aging glitch in this game. And she later asked for 'long life' from the genie, which further skewed things.)
Meanwhile, it had become quite clear that the zebra project was working. Many of the local horses were now related to Electrum through his older sons and daughters, and the ones born to Sundance and later foals often carried their heritage boldly. The infection rate of trypanosomiasis had fallen drastically - few of the part-zebras fell ill, and those that did usually recovered, unlike the high mortality seen in pure horses. Stripes were clearly in this season, but even the stripeless zorses were protected.
And late one evening, Henrietta added one more set of stripes to the population: Edsel.
With so many zorses around town - and the EC having actually purchased an unrelated zebra stallion to stand at stud - Bill and Katie had decided that once Henrietta foaled, they would move to a new town where trypanosomes were still a problem. Although the Appaloosa Plains horse breeders had been won over by Electrum's resistances and his talents, other places still doubted that the zebra infusion could be beneficial - or that it would solve more problems than it helped. ('Zebras are wild and unpredictable! We don't want foals that might grow up to be intractable, or even dangerous!') They had selected the town of Riverview, as the tsetse flies thrived in the humidity from the river, and the town had a large population of working draft horses, which had been hard hit by the disease. They'd take Annie with them, to be the dam of the first of the next ten foals, and had already arranged for a Belgian mare from a less skeptical farmer. Or perhaps he was simply more desperate - he'd had seven horses before the fly invasion and now had only the mare and a single gelding. So after sending the furniture on ahead, and putting the barn in order for the new owners, Bill, Katie, and Kevin saddled up and rode out, with Edsel galloping along after.
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Gilt Orchid reached the end of his training, and was taken down to the EC to sell. Perhaps because of his zebra blood, or maybe just because he hadn't all the bad stories about him that his dam had, he sold for nearly twice as much as Honeysuckle - $9900.
Bill, rather unexpectedly had a birthday and became an elder. He was determined not to get out of shape though, and kept up his strength exercises. (This was really quite strange, as Katie was supposed to be several days older than he was, but still had a week until she became an elder. I think there's some sort of aging glitch in this game. And she later asked for 'long life' from the genie, which further skewed things.)
Meanwhile, it had become quite clear that the zebra project was working. Many of the local horses were now related to Electrum through his older sons and daughters, and the ones born to Sundance and later foals often carried their heritage boldly. The infection rate of trypanosomiasis had fallen drastically - few of the part-zebras fell ill, and those that did usually recovered, unlike the high mortality seen in pure horses. Stripes were clearly in this season, but even the stripeless zorses were protected.
And late one evening, Henrietta added one more set of stripes to the population: Edsel.
With so many zorses around town - and the EC having actually purchased an unrelated zebra stallion to stand at stud - Bill and Katie had decided that once Henrietta foaled, they would move to a new town where trypanosomes were still a problem. Although the Appaloosa Plains horse breeders had been won over by Electrum's resistances and his talents, other places still doubted that the zebra infusion could be beneficial - or that it would solve more problems than it helped. ('Zebras are wild and unpredictable! We don't want foals that might grow up to be intractable, or even dangerous!') They had selected the town of Riverview, as the tsetse flies thrived in the humidity from the river, and the town had a large population of working draft horses, which had been hard hit by the disease. They'd take Annie with them, to be the dam of the first of the next ten foals, and had already arranged for a Belgian mare from a less skeptical farmer. Or perhaps he was simply more desperate - he'd had seven horses before the fly invasion and now had only the mare and a single gelding. So after sending the furniture on ahead, and putting the barn in order for the new owners, Bill, Katie, and Kevin saddled up and rode out, with Edsel galloping along after.
