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-:BREEDING:-</center>
<img src="http://jynk.talesofglory.net/oinari/side_banner.jpg" align="right">So, you're Oinari is all grown up now and thinking of starting a family of their own? Well, this is the section to learn more about how getting a mate and breeding. I'll start it off with a little FAQ...
Can two Oinari of the same gender be mated and have offspring?
Yes...and no. See, Oinari can have homosexual couples, but they can't breed naturally. They'd need to adopt an abandoned baby (either from a wild or owned couple) as their own. It's not an easy or common process as most Oinari are not willing to abandon their young (with exception of shop stock lotus blossoms). I'll go into detail on that down below.
How many babies do the Oinari have in one breeding?
They can have around one to three offspring. The shop retains the right to keep one offspring from every litter, provided that litter has more than one offspring in it.
That doesn't seem fair.
Oh, it's all kinds of fair. The shop can't sell first generation Oinari forever. Eventually, the new generations will be needed for shop stock. It helps the shop run smoothly.
<center>:THE BASICS:</center>
Oinari must be adults to breed. That goes without saying. Oinari should probably be in the same tribe, though they can, on the rare occasion, be in two different tribes. As I said, there will be anywhere from one to three kits in a litter (do not ask me how many there will be, it's random). When they're born, the mother places them inside a lotus blossom for safe-keeping. Those blossoms are either placed in the shop for resale later, given to the owners (more on that in a sec), or auctioned.
<center>:THE LOTUS:</center>
There are, currently, three ways to get a lotus blossom containing an Oinari kit: flatsale, auction, custom sale. This doesn't include the blossoms obtained from breeding. So, what do you do with your little blossom? Well, I'll tell you...you take care of it and nurture it. Don't force it open or try to remove it from it's spot in the ground. You'll kill the kit that way. For the most part, the lotus will be tended to without you needing to look after it 24/7. Take this time to get to know other owners, so that you'll have people to arrange play-dates with when your Oinari is old enough.
Now, if you got a lotus from breeding or adoption (I'll explain that in a moment), you have the option keeping the lotus--making it count to your two-Oinari limit--or give it away, either giving it to a friend, giving it to the shop, or auctioning it. Please let me know what you plan to do with it. Once your lotus has reached the infant stage, you will not be able to sell it or give it away.
In the event you decide to auction it, the shop will handle the auction for you and split the winning bid with you 70-30 in your favour. Anyone caught auctioning or selling their lotuses without authorization from the shop will have all their pets revoked without refund.
Should you choose to give the lotus away, please tell the shop who will be the new owner so we can properly cert the lotus and record ownership. Lotuses may only change hands once. This means if you give the lotus to a friend, they can not give it to someone else or sell it. They can, if they want, give it to the shop, but they will recieve no payment for it.
If you decide to give it to the shop, you will not be recieving payment for it, but you'll get a nice discount on the breeding price. Donating eggs to the shop helps keep the shop stock populated for further sales. The shop will take one egg from each clutch produced by breeding that contains more than one egg...and this will not count toward the dontation egg.
<center>:ADOPTING:</center>
Since two Oinari of the same gender can not reproduce, they have the option of adopting a clutch. This will only occur one of two ways, though: a wild clutch is found abandoned or an owned couple is willing to transfer parental rights to their clutch. Since abandoned clutches are rare, adoptions won't be a common occurance. In fact, they'll cost a bit more than breeding and require an rp event to obtain a clutch for adoption. It's not that I have something against same-sex couples, it's just harder to talk Oinari into giving up rights as parents. They're very protective of their young.
For a same-sex mated pair to obtain a wild clutch to adopt, there will be an rp contest event in which the winners (yes, it has to be a group effort of the two owners wanting their Oinari to adopt) will be able to buy the wild clutch and treat it as their Oinari's own young. That means once their Oinari adopt, all breeding rules apply to the clutch: shop gets one egg if more than one exists in the clutch, and they can give away, donate, or auction the rest under the normal rules.
If there's a owned couple that would like to give up parental rights to their clutch, then they can either give the clutch to the shop for a 50% refund in which it will be auctioned off, or they can give the clutch to the owners of a same-gender couple in which they get a 50% refund and the new owners can pay an adoption cost. After that, the clutch is subject to the normal breeding rules. The obligatory egg will be taken out before auctioning the clutch or transfering parental rights.
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razz RICES:</center>
5000g - Breeding
7000g - Adoption (either wild or owned clutch)
100
