Breeding Goals and Considerations

Breeding is one of the most important aspects of Horse Fable and is how horse breeds are improved, new breeds emerge, and even helps move the economy.

Setting a Goal

With lots of options on how to manage your breeding program it’s best to consider a few key questions.

  • What breed(s) do I like? Purebreds? Crossbreeds? Making my own breed?
  • What do I want to breed horses for? Disciplines? Careers? Halter showing?
  • Do genetics and color matter to me? 
  • Do I want to focus on breed standards, performance stats, skills, or personality?

 

If you can’t decide what goal(s) to set, asking players in the forum or Discord server may help. Many offer advice on getting started with breeding and may even offer help through generous gifts. If you find yourself wanting to aim for several goals you’re not alone! Many players decide to have many breeding projects, often across two or more breeds.

Considerations

Before breeding, there are quite a few considerations to take into account to reach your goals. In general, these are focusing on ensuring your next generation of horses is better than the last.

Breeding Suggestions

You are able to breed any horse at the age of 3 but there are a few suggestions you may want to follow. Following these suggestions ensure your horses’ offspring are able to better compete and train as well as appeal to buyers.

  1. Earn as many levels as possible before breeding. The suggested level to breed at is level 50 but some may wish to breed at a higher level. Doing so ensures your horse’s offspring have a training boost of at least 5. This has great appeal to buyers and gives the offspring a training advantage.
  2. Higher performance stats (PS) gives higher PS foals. So, training weekly greatly increases the foals born performance stats. In conjunction with the foals TB it will earn more PS than its sire and dam.
  3. Consider breed standard (BS) when breeding. Foal with more good or excellent in their BS both compete and sell well as compared to those with fair and poor BS.
  4. Color is sometimes a factor in breeding goals as well as for those looking to purchase a horse. However, it’s suggested if you want to breed for color to also take time to improve your horses using points 1 – 3 above. After all, color isn’t factored into competition scores nor job payout.
Rare Breeds

If you own rare breeds (Those with single foundation store days) and wish to breed them there are set standards to doing so. To keep rare breeds rare there are the following breeding requirements:

  • The horse is level 25 or higher.
  • The horse is limited to 5 successful breedings in its lifetime.
  • The horse is limited to 3 successful lab retrievals in its lifetime.
Breeding Tools

There are several tools that help you in breeding like:

Breeding Items – These items help in a variety of ways when breeding such as reducing the final % or increasing the chance of twins.
Breeding Planner – Keep organized on all of your breedings in the breeding planner. Horses>Breed>Breeding Planner
Foal Predictor- Want to see what foals may occur in a breeding pair? Use the foal predictor to see 4 possible outcomes. Lab > Foal Predictor.

Breed Standard (BS) Tracker

Horses > Breed > Breeding Standard Tracker.

From here, you can track the perfect Breed Standard numbers for any and all breeds that you’re working on. The BS tracker helps know the breed variance for foals in the foal predictor as well as BV displayed from the herd management page.

After you add the Breed Standards to the tracker, if you visit the Herd Management under the Breeding tab, you will now be able to see the Breed Variance for your horses.

Breeding Cooldown

Once horses have been bred, they will go into cooldown. For Stallions the cooldown for a successful breeding is 48 hours. Mares have longer cooldowns for a successful breeding of 7 days.

Horses in cooldown will say so on their page and have a timer beside their name on the view page. It takes 20% energy per breeding attempt. If a breeding fails, you are able to try again immediately if your horses have enough energy (more than 20%).

Life Cycle

Life Cycle

Horses age weekly but also go through various changes. Knowing about a horse’s lifecycle before breeding may aid in breeding decisions.