Breeding Your Horses
When breeding your horses, there are several
different goals you can aim for. Some players breed to create new breeds.
Some breed to improve breeds already on the game. Some breed for height
while others breed purely for color. It is up to you to decide what you
want to breed for on HWO. Here is a How-to guide for breeding on the game.
Breeding Results:
When you breed for new breeds, there are several different outcomes that
can come from breeding.
- You may end up with a 50% part-bred, a mixed, or a new breed.
The chances of getting a new breed are random....like
rolling the dice.
Some breeds may need to be bred with mixes to get them,
such as the Egyptian Arabian which calls for the following cross: (Akhal-Teke
x Caspain) X Arabian.
The Akhal-Teke x Caspian will NEED to
be a MIXED horse. You will then breed the mixed horse
with an arabian to get the Egyptian. You may still end up with a mixed
result from this breeding, but just keep breeding and you will eventually
get an Egyptian. (Hint: Make sure the heights of the horses you are breeding
are close to what breed you are trying to make)
IMPORTANT!!! – You
will need to OWN the book of the breed you are trying
to produce (when breeding for New Breeds) in order to be able to breed
it! Just knowing the information is NOT enough…you need to actually
have the book in your library to be able to breed for the new breed. Once
you have bred a new breed successfully, you will no longer need the book
to breed it.
Types of Breeding
The game has different ways of breeding your horses. At the moment, there
is the standard live cover and also Pasture breeding.
Live Cover Breeding
Mares
In order to breed a mare, you will first need to find a suitable stallion
that is available for stud. You can search for a stallion under the Sales
menu and select “Search Horses.” Here you can perform a search
for a specific breed, mix, height, and price. Once you have found a stallion
that is up for stud, go to his page and click the button that says “Breed
this Stallion.” This will bring up a window that has your mares
in it. Click on the name of the mare you want to breed. This will breed
the two horses together and your mare will now be pregnant. Mares are
pregnant for about 1 week.
If, when you click on the “Breed to this Stallion”
button it says you need more stalls, then you will need to sell or retire
a horse in order to make room for the baby. Once you have made room, you
will be able to breed.
Stallions
To put a stallion up for stud, you will need to enter a fee to charge
players to breed to him. You may then select the option to be public or
private. Private stud will keep your stallions from being able to be bred
by any player who accesses their page. You will be able to breed to your
own stallion regardless of how you have him set up for stud as long as
the mare you are breeding is on the same account as the stallion is located.
Stallions that you own and want to breed to are only able
to be bred to mares that you own at the moment as mares are not able to
be put up for breeding from other players unless you make private arrangements
with another player to buy the foal from them when it is born. This may
change in the future. You breed a stallion by going to his page and breeding
to him in the same way you would a mare.
Pasture Breeding
To pasture breed your horse, you will need to have BOTH the stallion and
the mare(s) turned out in the same pasture. You will actually need to
have possession of both horses to do this since they have to be in the
same pasture. Simply put them in the pasture like you would move them
to a "new area" of your account. Leave them there and as you
advance to the next day, you may end up having them breed in the meantime.
Pasture breeding does NOT happen ALL the time. So there is a chance they
may not breed and you may have to leave them together longer until they
do breed.
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