Forever chirpie, Sensitive babbeh syndrome or sbs fluffies when it comes to their head canon it is quite simple and straightforward, sbs are fluffies that do not grow past the chirpy stage, therefore have limited need or use of movement, minimal or no ability to speak and have a constant need to feed. Sbs fluffies exhibit these foal/chirpy babbeh like behaviour and forces it’s mother or potentially any mare around it to put all its maternal instincts towards it.
Some head canons say that sbs fluffies can grow larger than the average fluffy, however the same cannot be said for how long they live. As they can be easily be compared to real life dog breeds that have health complications due to how they were bred and marketed. Sbs fluffies are said to live short lives due to 2 main factors 1. Their infant like mental state puts them at the very bottom of food chain lower than the fluffies themselves, fluffies are already written and drawn to have low survival instincts. The sbs foal is doomed from the very start along with it’s mare mother as raising an sbs fluffy achieves only the mares need to tend to its young and while the others in it’s litter may also grow along side it there is a possibility if not by nature itself but it’s littermates or herd will be the one to put it out of its misery. 2 the sbs fluffys health complications may likely do him in sooner before any other external threat may come. This of course only applies to the born to feral, the ones raised in captivity may live longer as they are taken care of and nurses by both it’s mare mother but also by the humans exploiting them. Fluffies are already a puzzling fictional species as they are written to be cute and stupid biotoys living in a universe where their purpose is boxed and categorized by who is writing them and what they enjoy but still have a consistent head canon that has already been established accepted and expanded upon. Sbs fluffies are different as unlike the subspecies made by new and old fans, sbs foals can technically be considered to be the same as a fluffy, therefore a it wouldn’t be odd to question that a bowl fluffy, sea fluffy or even a bread fluffy can have sbs syndrome aswell. Sbs fluffies pose other great questions which can be expanded upon like do mares live long enough to realise sbs fluffies are a burden, do sbs fluffies ever reach a slight change in behaviour like eating solid food, are sbs fluffies ever aware of anything or just have some sense of object permanence out side of their need for miwkies and wuv.
Fluffies make me feel things, sbs fluffies amuse me, disgust me, anger me but also make me feels sorry for them and I like that.
In my headcanon; I also have something called SSR Foals (SSR have some fancy backronym, but it really means Screaming Shit-Rat). They have extreme anxiety and if picked up/touched without warning (or if they’re already terrified), they scream at the top of their lungs (usually either: “SCREEEE!” or “MUMMAAAAAHHHH!”) & flail their legs wildly at full force (and; yes, the piss/shit themselves as well).
This flailing can hit other fluffies (including foals and/or chirpies), which can cause serious harm to young ones. The SSR foals are in full-blown panic attacks and so don’t care/knows what or whom they’re hitting.
Amongst ferals, they always die since herds have no patience whatsoever for anyone making extremely loud noises at almost any possible time.
When I was reading through the beginning I thought SSR would mean something about more scientific or medical so when I read it as SCREAMING SHIT RAT it made me laugh harder than it should have. That was genuinely funny and SSR flufflies have now peaked my interest and I hope you make more content from it.
I imagine SSR fluffies would make for great nugget fluffies, no eyes, no hearing, no smelling, no moving just a tube connected deep into the throat and fed nutrients to keep it alive.
But also unlike the sbs fluffies health complications, SSR fluffies could relatively be just as healthy as a regular fluffy
For me, are sorry lame ass shit rats that need to be killed in the first moment is confirmed that are Sensitive.
If you are a breeder, you must kill a fluffy with SBS as soon as possible is identified, not because you are an abuser, but because a SBS is even more danger than a Besteh babbeh: took all the attention from its mother, leaving the rest of the foals to their own luck, basically all foals become poopi babbehs. Probable because SBS, even if they are retarded, have some pheromones that forced the mother to pay all her attention to the retarded shit rat and leave the other foals uncaring.
If you are an abuser, use a SBS to torture the mother, and, if you are a huger breeder, kill the shit rat but in a very human and painless way possible, but if you not… Make it suffer, at the end… Its just another shit rat that makes me feel sick.
That very direct but very effective, plus breeder or not sbs foals aren’t worth a sell unless its someone who really wants to be a caretaker for life. Kids keeping them as pets will probably have them refunded, elderly will have trouble giving them away due to sympathy and as you mentioned it mares who’ll probably raise them long enough that they still carry them on their backs even if their twice their size
Another common trait for SBS foals is that they’re larger than regular foals since they monopolise the mother’s milk and can only drink milk.
The size would be true until the SBS foal hits a certain weight threshold, or its siblings become weaned, at which point the SBS foal would either start wasting away or stay the same size, since they physically can’t eat enough to sustain themselves.
Looking at the diet, whole milk (3.7% fat) has a calorie density of ~0.67 Calories per mL, while dry kibble is typically around 3.5 - 4 Calories per gram, so a weaned foal that eats 100g of kibble a day, would get between 350-400 Calories compared to a SBS foal that would only get 67 Calories a day from 100 mL of milk.
The size of the stomach and intestines don’t vary that much from individual to individual, so there’s a physical volume limit on the GI tract for eaten food. While the SBS foal could have a higher throughput, that reduces nutrient absorption time so it doesn’t get as many calories from the milk as it would normally; i.e. shitting more so that it can eat more doesn’t fix the under-nourishment issue.
This is not to mention that the mare will eventually stop lactating, not least because milk production is very energetically expensive (a lactating woman requires 650+ extra Calories a day) so she’s more likely to starve to death if she’s stuck nursing a SBS for an extended period without human intervention.
Very in depth and very interesting, sbs foals being naturally bigger caused by potential genetical defects as a side effect of being born with sbs, so let us ask and analyse some more potential questions. Can a sbs foal live off of milkies and how long till it realizes that outside of milkies that it also needs wuv, can an sbs foal when raised to the maximum age of a fluffy actually still develop past it’s physical and mental disabilities and finally could an sbs fluffy be able to breed or bear children
SBS is normally meant to represent a developmental disorder like Down’s Syndrome so how much they can socialise or physically/mentally develop is entirely left up to the author. It’s a spectrum, not a binary list.
Oh yes, SSR foals are physically healthy (except for the extreme stress from their panic attacks). Mentally they’re hyper-anxious and afraid of almost everything.
Breeders loathe SSR foals since they can (and have) damaged and/or killed chirpies and younger foals with their wildly flailing hooves when in a panic attack. Also, no breeder likes their incessant screaming when handled.
My headcanon is that there are some mummahs who know that putting all her attention on the SBS foal is a bad idea, but can’t do anything to stop it. Key word being SOME, because there are also mummahs who worship the little fuckers.
Sensitive Babbehs are very dependent for me, like they dont like even playing with siblings it makes them panic their lives are very “mummah, mummahs miwkies, sweep, find everything scary that isnt 1 2 or 3” the constant chirping and crying makes them a nightmare for ferals as it likely will alert predators/other boxers to their location, they can age and grow, but because they cant digest anything but “specifically” their mummahs miwk they die well before they get anywhere near adulthood, they will be lucky to reach filly/colt and if they do they probably monopolised the milk so much they starved whatever siblings they had, sensitives also dont use their teeth and because of that cant bite anything, if they tried to eat kibble for example they would probably chip their tooth, causing them to go into a crying breakdown for god knows how long.
If SBS fluffies were real, I’d hate them because it would remove the entire point of owning a fluffy, namely, that they can talk to you. And it is for this reason that they suck for both abusers and hugboxers. It’s not as fun abusing something that can’t plead with you for mercy or experience psychological trauma and it’s not really fun taking care of a baby that will never actually grow up. We see this with human beings in real life. Non-verbal children with autism often need to be placed in institutions because their parents can’t quit their jobs and neglect their other children to raise them. And they aren’t really raising them since they don’t improve overtime.
In my head-canon, all fluffies are born with a danger pheromone called “MAMA HELP AM IN DANGER” or “MHAD for short.
healthy fluffies can unconsciously control it, as you know, like they scared and peeps for their fluffy mama or dadde.
And as they grow, their body produces less and less of this pheromone till its not produced anymore.
Meanwhile SBS have an overproduced stronger variant, they cant control its release, and its always active no matter their situation.
And actually if a sbs is in panic mode, they can drove crazy their mamas making them enter in a sorta of berserk mode.
Now, experienced mothers know to not concentrate solely on these sbs foals, as if they do, the rest of the litter will die.
The meres who do are either inexperience mothers of BMS.
In an experiment.
If you put a mother and her foals in a room with a SBS;
The good mama will try to help that sbs, but seeing that the sbs takes too much time and attention, she will abandon the sbs for her original ones.
The good mama will be sad, but it ends there.
Meanwhile, a bad mama will completely ignore her original litter to focus on the sbs and kill the originals if she thinks that they can pose a threat to the sbs, even if theres a bestest bebe among them.
They dont exist anymore, its only her and the sbs.
Consider that my sbs fall in the runt category.
But they are like the VIPS of the runts and often are picked up over healthy runts
