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Color a word of advice, breed evenly. Most breeders dont care but me im very strict about how i breed

Sorry, my ID is 4953

When you look at his pedigree, each horse has the same number of ancestors as their vertical neighbors. :) A lot of your horses have a foundation parent on one side and a long string of parents on the other side. If you're looking for breeding quality, than breeding even generationed horses is the way to go, but if you're breeding for showing quality, I've heard that uneven horses show better. :) Ultimately, it's your choice. It's not a rule on the server, but a lot of people won't buy or breed to uneven horses. :) Keep doing the free testing and you'll be fine. :D

Cool. :D It'll mean pretty much starting completely over, but if you need some more breeders, Herd Helpers are very helpful for getting more specific colors. High quality breeders, if more common colors, can be found in owner #13, which automatically pulls perfect foundations from the Yum Yum co. :D Good Luck!

Breeding even means you breed foundation to foundation, 2nd generation to 2nd generation, 3rd generation to 3rd generation, etc. So you would breed your perfect foundation to foundation mares. Every new horse you create is a foundation. Every foal from 2 foundations is a second generation :)

You can keep a few of you uneven horses just geld or spay them instead of using them as breeders. sometimes they make awesome show ponies.

Also, @baya most of us DO care about breeding evenly lol

What mabel said

You can breed how you want to breed. I take into account a horse's show record, if it has a good show record, and is uneven, I will buy it for show. I am upgraded, and can do that. Uneven isn't a big thing for me for a show horse. That is how I make hbs in the game. I make A Lot of hbs from my showing bonus each week. If you want to breed for quality breeders, and not volume of altered show horses, then breed even.

Hi Color. I've been playing on this server about as long as you. While the advice you've gotten so far is good, I'm wondering what you want out of your herd? Do you want it to be self sustaining--so that you can breed without needing to buy hbs? Do you want to breed the prettiest horses for sale to other players? Do you want to breed really top quality horses maybe in plainer colors? Do you just want a barn full of shiny, showy patterned ponies for your own personal enjoyment?

Your goals will help you decide what new horses to buy in/create, which foals to keep and where you should invest your hbs. If you want to be self sustaining, I would highly recommend a 3 pronged approach.

1--keep that perfect foundation sire. Breed him to a few of your top foundation generation mares (other perfect foundations or rank specials if you have them) and also put him up for public stud. Sell or keep the resulting foals depending on what your other goals are.

2--pick some of your other favorite mares, especially those pretty patterned girls that may be uneven generations, and breed them to upper generation stallions. Often upper level players will make nice stallions available at very low breeding fees specifically for the creation of show ponies (with the promise from you that you will alter all the foals and not use them for breeding). Take those foals (and their moms and all your other horses) and show them as much as you can (remember to train everyone once a week and show them twice a week after training). Build up that show bonus!

3--if you have any mares left over, either sell them or put them up for public breeding. You might make a note on the page of any that are unevenly bred. The rest of us are often looking for mares to use as recipient mares with embryo transfers and the evenly bred girls are likely to be used for trying out young or new stallions. This is a good way to use mares you don't have the room or inclination to breed to make you extra money.

This plan could be a good one for a season or two while you figure out the rest of your goals too!