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Requirements

To breed, you must have at least the following:

• A mare
  
• A stallion
  
• A breeding pasture
  
• A free stable (for the foal)

Requirements mare and stallion

Both the mare and stallion must meet certain criteria before they can be bred:

• The horse must be between 3 and 25 years old.
  
• The mare and stallion must be the same breed.
  
• The horse's health must be at 100%.
  
• The horse's hunger and thirst must be at least at 25%.
  
• The horse must be stabled.
  
• The horse must not be at rest.
  
• The horse is not for sale.
  
• The loan system options must be good (only applicable when loaning a stallion/mare/breeding pasture).

The breeding process

Once both horses meet the above requirements, you can place them in the breeding pasture. Here’s what happens:

➤ Mare: Stays in the pasture until she will give birth to a foal, provided there’s no miscarriage.
➤ Stallion: Returns to the stable after one day.

During this time, the horses will not get hungry, thirsty, or ill.

After birth, if all went well, your horse will have a foal. This foal stays with its mother in the pasture until it is one year old. Once the foal reaches the age of one year, the mother and foal automatically leave the pasture.

Healthy foal

After 11 months (11 game days), the mare gives birth to a foal. If you put inbred-free horses in the breeding pasture, you have the highest chance of a healthy foal. In an inbred-free pair, there is only a 1 in 50 chance of a miscarriage.

Twins

With twins, the mare gives birth to two foals after 11 months of gestation. The chance of having twins is 1 in 1000 and the chance of miscarriage is not higher in twins. Also, the mare's rest does not last longer after having twins. You cannot know in advance whether you will have twins, as this cannot be tested with (plus) coins.

Miscarriage

In a miscarriage, the mare gives birth to a dead foal after 11 months' gestation. Your mare has a chance of a miscarriage if you put inbred horses out to pasture. You can read about the percentage chance of miscarriage under ‘inbreeding’. After a miscarriage, a mare is on mare rest for 5 days to recover from the miscarriage. During these 5 days, she cannot be put back into the breeding pasture.

Once mother and foal are out of the pasture, the mare goes on mare rest. With a healthy foal, the mare rests for 3 days. If the foal was a miscarriage, the mare rests for 5 days. During mare rest, you cannot put your mare out to pasture.

• Mare and stallion in breeding pasture: 1 day / 1 in-game month
  The stallion will be send back to the stables after this day
  
  
• Mare pregnant in breeding pasture: 11 days / 11 in-game months
  The mare will give birth after 11 days
  
  
• Mare and foal in the breeding pasture: 12 days / 12 in-game months
  During this time, you can max the skill points of your foal
  
  
• Mare rest (healthy foal): 3 days / 3 in-game months
  During this time, the mare can not be placed in the breeding pasture
  
  
• Mare rest (miscarriage): 5 days / 5 in-game months
  During this time, the mare can not be placed in the breeding pasture

Inbreeding

To know if you are going to breed with an inbred pair, look at the pedigree of the mare you want to breed with and the pedigree of the stallion you want to breed with. If there are two or more times the same horse somewhere in these two pedigrees, we speak of inbreeding. You do not need to look further than the two pedigrees shown on the mare's and stallion's profiles.

If a combination involves inbreeding, there is a higher chance of miscarriage. The chance of a miscarriage depends on the severity of the inbreeding:

• No inbreeding: 1 miscarriage in 50 attempts
  
• The pedigree of the final foal you breed contains at least one double name (inbred horse): 1 miscarriage in 3 attempts
  
• If the foal has no double names in the pedigree, but the pedigrees of the foal's parents together contain at least 1x double name (inbred combination): 1 miscarriage out of 10 attempts

Checking for inbreeding

You can easily check for inbreeding by doing the following:

• Go to the horse profiles of both the mare and the stallion you want to breed with. Write down all the names in the pedigrees (so 7 names per horse, a total of 14). Skip unknown parents.
  
• Check whether certain names appear twice in the pedigrees.
  
• If yes: this is an inbred combination.
  
• If not: you can safely breed with this combination.

Inbreeding combination: overlap in horse names in the combination of the pedigrees of mare & stallion shown.
Inbred horse: a horse that has an increased miscarriage in combination with any horse because there is overlap of horse names within the pedigree shown on that horse's profile.

On My Horsez, you can very easily find out if a particular combination has inbreeding, by putting the combination out to pasture. You will then see a notification with information on whether it is inbred or not and what the miscarriage rate is.