Unicorns - Handy Hint

Breeding a Unicorn is very exciting. But did you know that if want to try and breed a Unicorn, you MUST breed at exactly 6.23am or 6.23pm Game Time? You have just the time between 6.23(am/pm) and 6.24(am/pm) to breed and if you miss it, you'll have to wait a whole 12 hours until you can tray again.

Now, you're still not guaranteed to produce a Unicorn foal when you breed at 6.23(am/pm), but if you don't breed at these times, you will definitely never produce a Unicorn foal.

It's believed that you have a one in six chance of producing a Unicorn foal, so be patient. However, someone I know bred their Unicorn 20 times and never produced a Unicorn foal!
UPDATE: As of 20 April 2011, you now have a 1 in 5 chance.

So good luck. You might need it.


Patsy

Do I Need to Look After My Horses Every Day?

Did you know that you don't have to look after all your horses every day? This is very good news, because if you have more than one or two horses, looking after them all, every day, would become impossible.

If you don't wake your horse up, it will just remain where it was when you put it to bed. In fact, even if it's woken up, as long as you don't do anything with it, like put it in the meadow, give a salt stone ot train it, it will come to no harm.

Imagine that your horse is frozen in time. If you had 1,000 horses, you couldn't posssibly look after each and every one of them on a daily basis! So Howrse understands that the horses are just 'on hold' until you decide to do something with them. Which is good news for you!

One final thing - if you don't look after any of our horses, and you have a job - you won't get paid!

Patsy

Howrse Auctions/Private Sales

If you sell a horse, either in the private sales or in the auctions, you cannot buy it back for 10 days.

You can buy a horse and re-sell it to another player immediately, if you wish to, but you can't buy a horse back yourself until those 10 days have passed. And that's not 10 Howrse days either!

Some people believe that if you sell your horse to a third party, you can then buy it back from them within in 10 days. This not the case.

So always be careful when selling your horses. 10 days is a long time to be without that beloved Arabian or treasured Donkey...

Patsy

Breeds - Arabian Horse

The Arabian Horse is the most popular breed on Howrse. It is also usually found at the top of the Genetic Potential rankings. The Arabian Horse is one of the oldest breeds in the world and has been used a lot as an improver for other breeds because of its numerous qualities. It is one of the original breeds on Howrse.

-Species: Horse
-Size: from 14.2 hands to 15.2 hands

ALLOWED COATS

Mouse gray 6 %
Roan 1 %
Black 4 %
Buckskin 1 %
Dun 3 %
Gray 27 %
White 27 %
Light bay 5 %
Cherry bay 5 %
Dark bay 5 %
Strawberry roan 1 %
Chestnut 15 %

Top 3 skills: Stamina, Dressage, Jumping

Best competitions: Cross Country

Lucy

Breeds - Connemara

Another one of the original pony breeds on Howrse, the Connemaras are Irish ponies.

-Species: Pony
-Size: from 12.2 hands to 14.2 hands




ALLOWED COATS

Mouse gray 8 %
Roan 5 %
Palomino 4 %
Black 15 %
Dun 9 %
Gray 15 %
White 25 %
Light bay 4 %
Dark bay 6 %
Bay 4 %
Strawberry roan 1 %
Chestnut 4 %

Top 3 skills: Stamina, Dressage, Jumping

Best competitions: Cross Country

Lucy

Breeds - Welsh

One of the original pony breeds on Howrse. The Welsh pony comes from Wales and the breed is split in to several different sections, depending on height.

-Species: Pony
-Size: from 12.2 hands to 13.0 hands



ALLOWED COATS

Mouse gray 8 %
Roan 2 %
Palomino 4 %
Chestnut 16 %
Strawberry roan 4 %
Bay 8 %
Dark bay 10 %
Light bay 2 %
White 10 %
Gray 17 %
Dun 8 %
Buckskin 3 %
Black 8 %

Top 3 skills: Galloping, Dressage, Speed

Best competitions: Galloping race, Barrel race

Lucy

Breeds - Quarter Horse

Welcome to your mini-guide to all the breeds on Howrse. All the posts in the 'Breeds' section will give an overview of a breed, what those horses are good at and any interesting things we know about them.

So we thought we'd start with the Quarter Horse. One of my favourites as that's what I started off with!

The first picture on the left is what the Quarter Horse used to look like with the old game graphics and the second picture is what the breed looks like now!

The Quarter Horse is an American horse. It takes it's name from the fact that it is the quickest horse over distances of a quarter of a mile or less. It is one of the original breeds on Howrse.

-Species: Horse
-Size: from 15.0 hands to 16.0 hands

ALLOWED COATS

Chestnut	17 %
Bay	9 %
Cherry bay	8 %
Strawberry roan	4 %
Flaxen Chestnut	11 %
Flaxen Liver chestnut	1 %
Black	8 %
Palomino	6 %
Roan	6 %
Liver chestnut	7 %
Dark Bay	7 %
Cremello	1 %
Light Gray	3 %
Dapple Gray	6 %
Mousey Gray	3 %
Dun	3 %

Top 3 skills: Galloping, Dressage, Speed

Best competitions: Galloping race, Barrel race

Lucy