Paint Colours/ Selling

So recently, well maybe not recently as I've had these horses for a while now, I decided to start breeding paints. Not necessarily because I love the breed, but mostly because I knew they were popular, and as I plan in the future to make a large amount of my income from things like selling and breeding horses, it was the smart thing to do. I am raising their stats, and I have conformation in mind so that as the generations pass hopefully they will improve, however I'm completely lost as to what colours are rare or desirable among paints. I know a lot of paint breeders and buyers take colour into consideration, and I am saving the EVD to buy credits to buy the coat randomizers, and I already managed to buy and use one, however I'm trying to see what colours I should actually be looking to breed in order to seek any future horses well.

Additionally to any paint breeders who may buy or sell paints, what else do you consider when buying or horse or seeing if you want to use one for stud. Do you take pedigree into consideration? The amount of foals a horse has produced, and do you have a formula for how to price the horses based on stat, colour and conformation?

How to find out if a color/pattern is rare or not:

Step 1- Go to the custom horse maker and make a list of all the colors and patterns a breed comes in... you don't have to actually make the horse.
Step 2- Go to "Horse Search" and search for all of those (make sure you specify you're searching for Paints of course); don't search for a color or pattern they don't have, it's pointless for this. Less results = not as rare, more results = rarer. Rare color + rare pattern = rare horse!
Step 3- Record which colors/patterns are rarest so you don't forget your findings. :)

As for Paint-specific questions, I don't know, I don't breed them. That being said, I can't tell you what a desirable color for them is, but there's a good chance it's rare.

Last edited on 2016-12-29 at 07:03:09 by Merry Raptorfang Ω

I have the calculations from a few months back on the rarity of paint coats. c: It's still pretty accurate as far as I know, let me go upload it for you and I'll send the link.

Linky Link

Last edited on 2016-12-29 at 07:26:15 by Lucifer

Hey, I buy paint foals! My paint herd is half foundie, half lined with the specific intention of buying breeding partners for any of my own foals I keep.

What I'm currently keeping an eye out for are western-trained foals who are not being fed haycubes/were not fed haycubes without being retrained back to western, 2nd or 3rd gen, from parents who haven't been bred more than 5 or 6 times (the lower the better at this moment, though). Duns and sabino-splashes make me extra warm and fuzzy on the inside. If I see a grullo foal trained in western, I'll impulse-buy without looking at everything else. >.>

I buy and breed a lot of paints (you can just peek at my page to see that), so I'm always glad to see a new breeder!

White is probably the rarest paint color, though it's not really sought after, I avoid it in most cases. Flaxen is the next rarest gene, as it's a custom only color, and can be difficult to pass on. Brown, champagne, and rabicano are probably the next rarest, followed by silver. Cream isn't rare, but I like how the double creams look. As for tobiano, sabino, roan, and overo, none are difficult to find and it comes down to personal preference. I like double roans, and avoid double tobianos and sabino in general.

As for what I look for, I personally look to avoid Paint the Town Dun, Sparkling, and brP lined paints. They're nice horses, and produce nice foals, but Paint the Town has over 120 breedings at the moment, and brP and Sparkling lines also seem extensively popular. We need fresh, not overbred, stick both in studs and broodmares to keep from continually breeding more from these lines (I'm also the butt that will refuse to breed my own studs to a mare with these lines cause I'm so tired of seeing them). I buy horses that haven't been bred more than twice, with generations shorter than three generations, because it's easier on me to pair. I prefer to buy foals and young horses to avoid them being bred early.

I feel my horses hay cubes while they're foals, sometimes with foundations til they're much older, while in a specialty like show jumping, then convert them to western where they'll be kept for breeding, or sold if that was the plan.

I also don't breed a horse more than three times, to keep my lines from growing incredibly popular and overbred.

Thanks very much everyone for the help i'm gonna have to write all this down or bookmark the page to save the information. Hopefully in a few months (or years, as I keep locking my horses, lol) I'll have some grade a horses to sell to the public.