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Predict What You Will Get

A genetics guessing contest

I have copied this from the old forum.

Rules:
-Submit between 5 and 10 planned breedings for the March season with your guess as to the color of the resulting foal.
-Each submission must include a link to both the sire and the dam selected.
-This is a phenotype contest. Color testing is required only if the foal’s color is not readily apparent (homozygous appaloosa with extensive PATN, possibility of frame, splash, sabino, or rabicano with no WF, etc.). If the foal's color is obvious, color testing is not required.
-All submissions must be for breedings that have more than one possible outcome. For example- a cremelloXchestnut will only produce a palomino so that is not allowed.
-Use of eggs/ETs is allowed, but each entry will only count the first foal from that pairing. If you use the same sire/dam pair for more than one entry, then each subsequent foal counts for the next entry on the submission form.
-Please do not yum any foals from contest pairs until after the contest has been judged and the official results have been announced. If the foal is yummed early it will count as a wrong guess.
-I will try to find time to evaluate entries for possibility (ie- if I see you have two chestnut parents and the foal guess is a cremello) and I will let you know if I see any errors. You are allowed to revise your submission as often as needed up until 11:59pm on February 28.
-If you wish to revise your entry before the end of the submission period, please make a new post and state that it is a revision of a previous entry.
-Please post your ID number with your submission. If it is in your sig, that is sufficient.
-After your contest breedings are completed, post your results in this thread with links to the foals. The best way to report results is to copy your original submission and add the foal color and link after each breeding.
-Breedings which do not occur count as wrong guesses.
-The deadline for posting results is 11:59pm on March 21.


An example (including results):
1) Rithurven 1X – brown sabino
Ananial 1XR – brown sabino
Foal guess - brown sabino
Actual foal – brown sabino

(This is a valid pairing since both sire and dam are Ee, giving a 25% chance of a chestnut sabino foal. If one or both of the parents are untested and have a possibility of being heterozygous for a critical gene, that is also permitted.)

Prizes:
1st place- 200,000hb
2nd place- 100,000hb
3rd place- 50,000hb
Everyone who enters gets a 1hb straw from their choice of my foundation stallions when they submit their completed results. Please indicate which stallion you want a straw from in your results post. (Arrangements can be made for live cover if you can’t use straws.) My Ice stallion Winter Crystal is not available for participation straws, but all other LE stallions are.

New member prize (members of the forum from October 1st, 2013)
1st place- 50,000hb
2nd place- 25,000hb

Have fun and learn more genetics!