My Colour Achilles Heel

[Amber]

Do you ever breed a horse whose stats are meh, but they are SO PRETTY that you keep them in the vain hope that you can breed them to better horses and maybe keep the colour?

I have a line of tiger eyed silver dapples that are sup-par to the rest of my horses, but they are all so pretty I just can't bring myself to RH them.

Sometimes I feel like I would be better in this game if I were more focused - lol.

[Nate]

I have done such a thing in the past, but for me it's a slippery slope. One day I'm breeding nice colors and the next, all my horses are horrible freaks who can't navigate a pasture without becoming winded and dying. These days I set strict, though not especially high, parameters for what I will keep.

[Syn]

This guy


I want 100% tiger eye in my DHHs. This guy doesn't have tiger eye, but his stats are acceptable for where I'm at currently and I can't get over the silver smoky cream color he has going on..

[Amber]

Nate: know, I know. It's a terrible weakness! Most of my high stat horses are boring colours, though.



Syn: Oh, pretty!

[Catato]

He is beautiful! Wish I had a horse like that
*steals*

[Syn]

Go figure, I change a few things in my breeding program and convince myself to sell him aaaaand he gets rehomed by his new owner. ;(

[Aela]

Go figure, I change a few things in my breeding program and convince myself to sell him aaaaand he gets rehomed by his new owner. ;(

Oh that's the worst! Either that or the removal of prefixes almost always happens when I sell horses :/

[Chelle]

yep my prefixes almost always get removed on my dutch warmbloods when i sell them. Then I get excited when I see dutch warmbloods for sale or stud without my prefix thinking there are new lines out and about, just to take a look at their page and see it's a horse I bred and sold -___-

[Djeraya]

Hate that as well, that's why I keep a lot of my own horses even if I could/would like sell them. And because I know the pain, I don't change the name of a horse I buy, unless it is "unnamed 123".
And ye a silver amber champagne wab filly with chance for varnish/leopard (average report) of mine was rehomed as well :S Luckily I have both parents still.

As for the achilles heel, I had less problems with colour yet but I sometimes get horses which were supposed to become a new breed but did not, but have such good stats so I keep them, although I am not sure I will be able to find a proper breeding partner for them later ^^

[QuesthavenFarms]

Oh that's the worst! Either that or the removal of prefixes almost always happens when I sell horses :/

Very annoying! I hate that. change the name if you must but be polite and keep the breeders prefix.