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^^This does not include foundations though

Best of luck. How do you all do the abbreviations? How do you come up with them?

@bestfriend this is what i am changing mine to. I have been using single letter abbreviations like this for a while but i changed what some of them mean so gotta redo them all.

Uppercase is for hom and lower case is for het. Except in the case of brindle in which it's always uppercase.

Aa - Nacre
B - Brindle
Cc - Chinchilla
Dd - DP
Ee - Splash 3
Ff - Frame
Gg - GP
Hh -
Ii - Ice (followed by number)
Jj -
Kk - KP
Ll - Plaid
Mm - Splash M
Nn - Snowflake
Oo -
Pp - Pearl
Qq - Satin
Rr - Watercolor
Ss - Sooty+
Tt - Thunderstruck
Uu - Mushroom
Vv - Nexus
Ww - Wrong Warp
Xx - Axiom
Yy -
Zz -

Numbers 1-4, and 10 without and "i" in front, refer to white spotting genes

If Ammit comes out with many more genes, I’m going to run out of letters to use to signify them!

If anyone is interested, below is my own code:

Base colors and modifiers:
E—Black base
e—Red base
A—Bay base
w—Wild Bay base
t—brown base
c—cream
p—pearl
D—Dun
Z—silver
C—champagne
f—flaxen
G—Gray
q—Satin

Patterns:
W—W1
t—W2 (yes, I used this twice)
h—W3
M—Kit M
x—W10
n—W20
T—Tobiano
r—Roan
s—Sabino 1
b—Sabino 2
S—Splash 1, 2 or 3
m—Splash Macchiato
R—Rabicano
L—Appaloosa
O—Frame
B—Brindle

Special codes
J—Gulastra Plume
K—Kit Promoter
D—Dense Pheomelanin
Q—Axiom
X—Nexus
P—Watercolor
p—Plaid
H—Thunderstruck
N—Nacre
i—Ice
u—Mushroom
h—Chinchilla

I only use:-
W (any white I think should not be bred with any other white - so white spotting and some extensive whites get this code)
FR - Frame (again to avoid mishaps!)
sa - satin - so they get put in the satin pasture

Of course I name my gens and BS for bootstrap herd

I also have a small pasture for actual breeding so I can have multiple gens in my big pastures and move them over to breed in batches to the right stallion, so I do need some labeling - in theory I could hand pasture breed every mare. I don't do that btw! But I must admit though my breeding takes ages! :D

Good luck with the renaming :)

@bestfriend go for it!

Speaking solely for myself, I have always relied on tattoos for identifying the presence of certain genes, especially if they can be hard to see (e.g. frame) or need to be homozygous to affect the phenotype. I also use tattoos to identify generations in HaJ1, up through gen 5.

Here in HaJ2, I use a numeral following the name to mark generations for intact horses.

In this way, I avoid having to keep a catalog for the meanings of informational codes included in the names of my horses. I'm a fairly casual player, and try to keep things easy for my aging brain to remember. :D

What I like about my (admittedly extensive and unwieldy) code is that I can look at horse names in the barn or on chat pages and know exactly what color and pattern and special genes it is/has. That said, since my girls live in pasture from the time they hit 3 years old, I really don’t have to do this anymore. I may stop coding my girls so extensively in the future, but I’m not sold on the idea yet.

One of the things that I love about codes is that a lot of codes are similar for similar things. So, for instance, KP in a horse name almost always means it has KP. So I can search for KP in a horse name in a general search, for instance recently when someone said she was going to put up all of her unbred mares for brood, and find their KP Horses within a group quickly and easily without having to dig through pages and pages. Similarly, X almost always means a Nexus/Axiom Horse, or sometimes W20... X is helpful because you can’t just search for “Axiom”, you have to search for each of the 3 colors individually. I think Abbey Road used J as her thing for GP and that’s where I picked that up...but I may be making that up!

Anyway, I do like that some things like that seem to be fairly wide spread.

Like Sandy, I also like to use a million tattoos but then you have to search for the tattoos to move stuff around from barns to pastures. Using my naming code, I can do those moves in groups directly from the barn and that’s simpler to me. That said, I absolutely use my tattoos for searching groups of horses and particularly for horses that are Het for hidden genes like KP and GP, or DP in non-red based horses.