Now, it's been a controversial few days for the NIBers of Howrse.
For those of you who don't know, NIBers (which stands for Non-inbreeders) breed non-inbred or NIB horses. A NIB horse is a horse that is not inbred; every horse in its pedigree appears only once (with the exception of Ouranos and Gaia). Horses with "Horse Disappeared" in their pedigree are generally not accepted by NIB breeders unless the horses in question were bought before the horses disappeared and have verifiable pedigrees.
So you can start your own NIB programme by buying 2 foundation horses of the same breed, blupping them and then breeding a resulting NIB foal. If you then want to go on to breed this foal you must ensure that the horse you breed it with has entirely different parents from your foal and so on all the way down the line.
Not inbreeding limits the breeding availability of these horses and it is a much slower process than breeding brothers to sisters and so forth as the breeders at the top of the GP races do.
However, it is with great pleasure that we announce the first Green star NIB horse was created on February 21, 2011 - a 6th generation Connemara pony with a star in stamina. He was the end result of a lot of hard work and effort! And it has inspired me to have little dabble with NIBing myself.
Congratulations to HYDEIST, kaliko99 and their honourary partner livelyblueyes.
More congratulations also go to the whole NIB community for fighting and ultimately winning the battle with Howrse over their proposed changes to foundation horses GP - which would have completely rendered all the NIB hard work useless.
It's a happy day on Howrse.
Lucy
P.S. Credit to lanikot for the great banner displayed at the top of this post.
This confuses me wat does not inbreeders mean they only breed with other ppl or wat???
ReplyDeleteHey thanks for the credit on the banner! I ended up here because someone saw it and immediately contacted me. I didnt realize there was an interview. I could have featured it and provided a link to this place as well.
ReplyDeleteWe, the NIB Community and particularly us within the NIB Coalition, are very proud of kaliko99 and HYDEIST for being the first to achieve this feat. Not only that, but they show exceptional quality and standard because their lines are solid - unlike other NIBers who are rushing and pulling lines from other people who can't attest to the solidity of their ancestry. Whether or not its official on Howrse, these two have made NIB history. =)
@Em101
Non-Inbreeding means a horse only appears once in the pedigree line. This means you dont breed any relatives together. Its really tough and you accumulate a lot of horses trying to get 1 green star. If you are registered on Howrse, visit my EC forum for "The NIB Newbie FAQ".
Regards,
lanikot