No Selling Unweaned Foals

[Argent]

In the interest of realism and making the current feeding system make sense (because iirc, foals get so fat because they're nursing, but if the have no dam, they can't be nursing) I don't think we should be able to sell unweaned foals. There should probably also be a restriction on separating foals from their dams in pastures.

[Kinleigh]

I think this would be cool.

In real life most foals wean in between 4 and 6 months. Would this be the cutoff?

[Argent]

Yeah. I imagine there would be some way to calculate when mares weaned their foals based on how much energy they can expend on lactation.

[Eurynome]

Not sure about this idea, given that it's fully possible in real life to pull a foal off its dam and sell it. The new owner just has to bottle feed it.

Plus, how would this affect foals that are immediate culls? Would people be stuck with them till they hit the magic cut off age, or would they be able to immediately rehome it?

[Argent]

You'd be able to rehome it. I know the message says "this horse has been sold to a new home," but when I cull ponies, I definitely view it more as killing them off. *shrug* A rehomed foal would essentially be euth'd at foaling.

[Ms. Trouble Maker]

Splendid idea! I try to wait about a year or 2 till i send my colt or filly off... Simply because you won't know if it's a good horse or not until you do some training. I have the top Friesian in the game that has an average report... Well she must just have that "perfect" build. Lol

[Millwood]

Realistically even in the real world you can sell a foal when you want, even weaning can happen pretty early with good supplementary feeding

[skybluepainter]

I think it also influencing the foal's temperament would be good. Some foals become overly skittish when weaned too early and stuff.

[Ivy Stables Holding]

In real life a you need to go out and wean domesticated foals, if you wait too long and don't do it, the mare will start to lash out at the foal and potentially hurt, or even kill it. I think that at a when they are born, a button (rather like the sell, breed, and re-home buttons) should appear, saying 'Wean foal' or simply 'Wean'. if you press it too early, the foal becomes skittish and makes it hard for them to gain weight, and if you hit it to late, or not at all, you could have like a %30 chance of loosing the foal

[Malakai10]

In real life a you need to go out and wean domesticated foals, if you wait too long and don't do it, the mare will start to lash out at the foal and potentially hurt, or even kill it. I think that at a when they are born, a button (rather like the sell, breed, and re-home buttons) should appear, saying 'Wean foal' or simply 'Wean'. if you press it too early, the foal becomes skittish and makes it hard for them to gain weight, and if you hit it to late, or not at all, you could have like a %30 chance of loosing the foal

The problem with this is that a good portion of players breed 36 foals every in-game year... and we can easily go through as many as 10 or even 30 years for the really dedicated players... in one real-life day. Even if we don't keep all 36 foals, that's a really hectic amount of button pushing - even the way the game is, I can barely play an hour without my wrist and fingers aching - if I had to remember to press a button on every six month old foal to prevent myself potentially loosing 5 years of hard work? I don't think I'd enjoy playing anymore.