Breeding to Outside Stallions

Thanks for all your input, guys!

@Blodwyn I have some upcoming welshies that are super nice - they're just too young to offer to the public for my standards of breeding! Some good colors with modifiers, too!

So for the longtime breeders, I see that a lot of you have opted not to publicly stud your stallions, which is totally fair. I understand wanting to preserve your lines! I guess I just like to share my success with other players when I put my stallions up for public stud, but I do ensure to place the higher fee in order to make sure that the owner of the resulting foal is dedicated to getting a nice foal. I also show my horses like crazy, so it gives me pride to see my stock's get getting out there and showing, too!

I posted this topic because I have an up and coming mustang stallion that's almost the highest stated boy in the game for his age bracket, and he's almost of breeding age. I've lowkey been considering keeping his studding private and bid-style for slots. Just a consideration for now!

I used to have them for public stud but I feel lower prices with private studding is a better balance than higher prices with public studding. Especially when dedicated breeders =/= rich people (speaking as someone on the rich list- I always forget people aren't willing to or can't drop 50k on a single stud service no matter how exclusive/rare/good it is, hence effort to be more affordable). I'm actually not as picky with mares breeding to studs than I am with breeding to studs myself (also why I don't offer broodmares right now). More often than not I'll glance at her age/stats and see if she's closely related but any other factors I'm not so fussed about. Then again cheap studs are readily available, so someone requesting a breeding is usually someone with a similar quality horse or my horse just happens to be the top stat stud available ha.


Personally I've never liked bid style/custom breedings/etc, I always feel they get a bit out of control/overpriced from the start if there's any interest at all.

Hmmmm interesting things to consider, for sure! I suppose I could consider lowering some fees and trying the private studding, though I know that I myself usually look to outside stallions when I'm ready to breed right then and there (I'm a terribly impatient person LOL)

I may try the private studding with Trajan. He's so incredibly nice and from two dear lines in my Mustang stock that I've worked years on, so maybe that'll be the better route!

Sorry for lurking, but I have a question! What is the reason for wanting low non-specialty stats? Is there a negative to having them be high even if the specialty stats are also high?

Thanks all!

@~anayer~,
The less amount of non-specialty stats horse have, the more likely is he/she to win shows because all stats are responsible for horses' grade, while only two in each discipline counts while it comes to show results :>.
For example, if a dressage horse have 280 stats with, let's say, 200 points divided out Agility and Intelligence and 80 in other 3, he will loose with horse having 260 stats with 230 points divided out Agility and Intelligence and 30 in other 3 (while both of them wear equal equipment) 'cause even if the second one horse has 20 points less total stats, his "specialty stats" are 30 points higher than the first one.
So, yeah, it is quite negative to have non-specialty stats high when you want to show your horses :).

Stats > short, clean, uncommon lines & a maximum of 5 foals> confo > color.

Last edited on 2017-03-14 at 11:11:55 by Féline

For my Chincoteagues, I look mainly for good colors, and ALWAYS ALWAYS none with GG, but for my Miniature Horses, I mostly want high stats, although the GG thing also applies to them. And for both, high confo, especially if, for example, my mare's neck is poor, then I want a stud with an excellent neck, or at least good, etc. So yeah.