Questions

Hi :) I have a few questions I hope to get some help with!

1: When is the best age to breed a horse?

2: Whould I switch treats after awhile? I see some people only give turnips to Stallys and Carrots to mares for example. 

3: How dominant is the graying gene? How to avoid it? 

4: The health, can I improve "Poor" to good etc? And what should I think of when breeding?


Hope some of you are willing to help me out :) Thank you!

Hi, welcome to Equiverse!

1. I want 3 foals from each mare, so in order for all the foals to have maximum possible stats I breed the mare 1 day before she turns 19, 1 day before 20 and 1 day before 21. At 21 they can't be bred anymore, so it's important not to miss that date.

2. No, you can switch between treats that give the desired speciality stats, but you don't have to. All of my horses get yellow apples for agility for example, but I sometimes switch and give them green ones for them to gain intelligence. This doesn't affect show results.

3. From Genetics Help: "The Gray gene is dominant over any other color and will mask a horse's underlying base coat. If the horse has a Gray gene (GG, Gg) then the horse is gray, regardless of any other genes present. Graying is an eventual process, so young horses will not display gray upon birth - horses in-game begin to gray at four years of age and complete their graying process at 10. Graying horses have (graying) displayed behind their base coat colour. Fully grayed horses have their coat colour displayed as gray."

If you don't want the offspring to be gray, don't breed to a gray horse, the foal will always be gray. Also, check out the Genetics Guide.

4. Conformation can be improved through breeding. If you bred a horse with poor withers to a horse with excellent withers, the foal would likely have better withers than poor (good). Sadly there's no conformation calculator (yet), but you can use the foal stat calculator to calculate the estimated stats of the foal if you know the base stats of both parents and the genotype calculator to see possible genetics found in Game Guides. Lots of good information and tips there!

Last edited on 2019-05-12 at 03:27:27 by Akvelins ⚜️

One correction - it is possible to breed to a grey horse and end up with one that's not grey. It depends on whether the grey gene is homozygous or heterozygous (whether it has two dominant grey genes (alleles) or one). If it's heterozygous and you breed to a non-grey, there's only a 50% chance the foal will be grey. If you breed two heterozygous greys together, you have a 25% chance of not having a grey offspring. If either parent is homozygous for grey, the foal will always be grey.

Keep in mind that to calculate this, the genes of both parents must be visible. It costs $1000 to reveal the genetic code of each horse.