AnnieAngel's Breeding Guide
This guide will teach you how to best breed your horses so you can improve your stock and VHR 2 breeds. If done properly you can bring a breed and your stock higher in base stats even if you started with Grade Ds.
First off if you can afford and can find some very high horses in the breed of your choice to start off with do, however if you can't don't worry you can still do it with the horses you have or can get it will just take a little longer.
Rules of Breeding
- The general horse market place is your best friend. (second horse head on the menu) The general market place allows you to search your own horses to determine which ones are better in base stats, stats ect. This is extremely handy for breeding as you can make sure that you will always use your best horses.
- Base stats are the most important type of stats!! You can have the best trained horse in the game but if his base stats were bad a trained better base stats horse will produce better foals.
- Train, Train, and Train some more. Stat training BOTH parents is extremely important. A high Lvl means nothing to breeding. High stats are what is important! Stat training is really really easy, expensive but worth it. Read my Mare training guide and my Stat Maxxing guide to learn how to train your horses for breeding.
- Bad foals happen. It's just the way it is. Even the best horses in game produce some duds. If we always got better foals there would be no challenge in the game.
- It's gonna be expensive. You can't avoid the costs of breeding good horses. Trial Trial Trial!!
- Quin and Quad don't matter!! For all you warmblood breeders you should be focused on higher base stats rather than a horse that happens to have a couple inconceivables. Half the time these quins and quads are pretty bad horses and wouldn't produce another quin or quad no matter who you breed them with.
- The better horses are always going to be expensive. Getting mad at their owners for selling or studding them at a high price is pretty rude since they earned it. It costs a lot of money to develope extremely good horses. To give you some ideas, Irishnut and I probably spent around 200-300 million getting the horses to AAA born, and that's just me and irish that doesn't even count anyone else who helped along the way. So really the AAA born horses we have now probably cost around 500 million to create from A/AA borns to AAA/AAA borns. Keep that in mind next time you think someone is asking too much money ;)
Ok now on to breeding!
Step 1 |
First you need to pick a breed. Any breed can be good if you work at it. So pick a breed you like. |
Step 2 |
Now you need to find horses of that breed. You may already have some you may not. Check and see if you might be able to crossbreed some to start off with using the crossbreeding charts (red barn >> crossbreed/parents/foals). If you can't or you'd rather buy some stock head over to the general market place (second horse head on the menu). Now determine how much money you can spend. if you can afford to buy some really good horses of that breed and some are for sale buy em (make sure they aren't related). if not buy some lower cheaper ones. You can also check out ones up for rescue. Also remember that if there are some up for stud you only have to buy mares and just stud the stallions. However it's best to make sure there are some and that they are well trained. |
Step 3 |
Now that you have your horses train them! Use my mare training guide for your mares and my stat maxxing guide for your stallions (if you bought stallion(s)). |
Step 4 |
Breed them! You can breed your mare(s) until you get foals better than them or just breed them until 23 yrs. |
Step 5 |
Now that you've had foals use the general market place to find out how good they are. Since you won't need all of them and they may not be able to breed each other due to relations, keep the best ones and sell the rest. |
Step 6 |
Train up your best foals and breed them! If you have a good stallion you can put him up for stud and try to make some extra cash while breeding. |
Step 7 |
Just keep repeating this process. Your horses will get better as the generations go by. You may need to buy a new horse here and there due to relations. |
Tip: Grades are your friend. All but a couple breeds (arabian, belgian, prezwalkis, zebras, mules, tarpans) can be bred with the proper AA-AAA grade breeds to make better foals of that breed. For example: Hanoverian x Warmblood grade AAA/AAA or Mustang x Feral Grade AA/AAA . Check in your horses info for it's breed Type. The breed type must match the grade breed to make a purebred. Example: hanoverians are warmblood type, mustangs are feral type. The grades must be grade AA or grade AAA breed.