Selling Horses
I was wondering which kinds of horses are more likely to sell. I don't have much of an idea when it comes to breeding for looks, so how good does a horse have to be stat-wise to be sold off?
I mainly want to know so when I have unwanted foals that I don't have time to train I can just rehome them instead of letting them take up space.
I mainly want to know so when I have unwanted foals that I don't have time to train I can just rehome them instead of letting them take up space.
Re: Selling Horses
Rehoming is the simplest way to get rid of a horse you don't want. It's a gentler way of sending it out of your farm, and the game, than some other things it could be called. Forgive me if you already know the following, but since you're relatively new …
Cautionary facts:
• Rehoming is a final step. Once done it can never be undone.
• It removes the animal from the game database, so it disappears from its sire's and dam's Progeny lists as well as from your farm list and anyplace else it might have been listed, such as competition rankings.
• The odd exception is that the horse can still win competitions in which it was entered before rehoming. That's because the judging for each individual in the competition takes place upon entry. (The time and date given for the event to be "run" is simply a deadline for entry.)
• Because the removal is complete, there is no memorial page as with "retired" (deceased) horses.
• Adults with living progeny cannot be rehomed. Part of the rationale for this is that Admin refuses to blow holes in existing pedigrees. Danger: A mare pregnant with her first foal may be able to be rehomed, in which case you lose both of them.
Rehoming can be necessary and sensible.
• Quite a few of the players here are highly focused on one or two goals, such as producing horses that are the best for one or a few related disciplines, or developing a new breed. This results in a lot of rehomes, which makes sense -- they play fast, cycling through generations, and the unwanted horses would fill the farms otherwise.
• While a horse is for sale but not yet purchased, it is still the owner's responsibility, taking up space and eating.
Selling: more people play on weekends, so if you post the horse on Friday or Saturday, the listing is more likely to be seen and acted on. Right now there are quite a number of horses both for sale and for stud with green (exceeds expectations) and gold (outstanding) traits. Seems like Intelligence and Stamina are the most common; they both help significantly in training and performance.
Looking at a few sale pages will show an astonishing variety of offerings, from good deals to sadly unrealistically overpriced. I've been playing for more than a year now. The least I've ever paid was $1, most recently to fulfill one of the Quests. (If I were more hardhearted I would have immediately rehomed her, but I'm a sentimental sap with a lot of pastures and barns, so I'll try breeding her when she comes of age ...) Months ago I got a superb half Hackney mare for $1, a performer already about 80% trained, and 20-90% on the way to several championships. I delighted in further training and competing her, and she's also given me some good foals.
As my other player character, Xant’hippe, I bought a two week old Belgian foal for a very modest sum, under $50, and raised and trained him, naming him "Solar Power". In competition rankings he is visible in Log Pull, having earned a Supreme Master Grand Championship. That was Xan's first horse and the elevation was mutual, inspiring and financing the player's education.
"Horses for Sale" is used by buyers and sellers and reading it is often interesting and informative.
What *would* either character pay? For a stallion, or a broodmare no older than 15, anywhere from $1 to $100,000; also for a promising foal if I'm interested in the breed or talent being offered. (But I get snarky when I see an untrained no-progeny Foundation horse for sale for over $300 to $500. Same with Foundation studs with fees over $100 when they have no show records and no greens: come on, folks, there is some awesome pedigreed stock out there!
) I have found some very good horses for $20 or less. Xan bought an excellent Shetland Pony stallion for $14.
If the animal is being offered as a "performer" I like to see some training and a public show record. The object of buying rather than adopting is to see what their traits are, whether they are AC/Foundation or have a pedigree of tens or hundreds of generations. It's rare for me to seriously consider a stupid horse ("couldn't find his way out of a paper bag", "this is one dumb mare", etc.) -- the longer I play, the pickier I get about some things, and that one especially. The candidate would have to have some compensating value in other respects.
The only Red in Intelligence I've ever seen was a horse that was obviously bred for unusual color. It had a pretty pattern and absolutely no other redeeming virtue. Sometimes HWO simulates IRL rather closely!
tl;dr
Sell 'em if you can, rehome if you have to.
Good luck and best wishes!
Cautionary facts:
• Rehoming is a final step. Once done it can never be undone.
• It removes the animal from the game database, so it disappears from its sire's and dam's Progeny lists as well as from your farm list and anyplace else it might have been listed, such as competition rankings.
• The odd exception is that the horse can still win competitions in which it was entered before rehoming. That's because the judging for each individual in the competition takes place upon entry. (The time and date given for the event to be "run" is simply a deadline for entry.)
• Because the removal is complete, there is no memorial page as with "retired" (deceased) horses.
• Adults with living progeny cannot be rehomed. Part of the rationale for this is that Admin refuses to blow holes in existing pedigrees. Danger: A mare pregnant with her first foal may be able to be rehomed, in which case you lose both of them.
Rehoming can be necessary and sensible.
• Quite a few of the players here are highly focused on one or two goals, such as producing horses that are the best for one or a few related disciplines, or developing a new breed. This results in a lot of rehomes, which makes sense -- they play fast, cycling through generations, and the unwanted horses would fill the farms otherwise.
• While a horse is for sale but not yet purchased, it is still the owner's responsibility, taking up space and eating.
Selling: more people play on weekends, so if you post the horse on Friday or Saturday, the listing is more likely to be seen and acted on. Right now there are quite a number of horses both for sale and for stud with green (exceeds expectations) and gold (outstanding) traits. Seems like Intelligence and Stamina are the most common; they both help significantly in training and performance.
Looking at a few sale pages will show an astonishing variety of offerings, from good deals to sadly unrealistically overpriced. I've been playing for more than a year now. The least I've ever paid was $1, most recently to fulfill one of the Quests. (If I were more hardhearted I would have immediately rehomed her, but I'm a sentimental sap with a lot of pastures and barns, so I'll try breeding her when she comes of age ...) Months ago I got a superb half Hackney mare for $1, a performer already about 80% trained, and 20-90% on the way to several championships. I delighted in further training and competing her, and she's also given me some good foals.
As my other player character, Xant’hippe, I bought a two week old Belgian foal for a very modest sum, under $50, and raised and trained him, naming him "Solar Power". In competition rankings he is visible in Log Pull, having earned a Supreme Master Grand Championship. That was Xan's first horse and the elevation was mutual, inspiring and financing the player's education.
"Horses for Sale" is used by buyers and sellers and reading it is often interesting and informative.
What *would* either character pay? For a stallion, or a broodmare no older than 15, anywhere from $1 to $100,000; also for a promising foal if I'm interested in the breed or talent being offered. (But I get snarky when I see an untrained no-progeny Foundation horse for sale for over $300 to $500. Same with Foundation studs with fees over $100 when they have no show records and no greens: come on, folks, there is some awesome pedigreed stock out there!
) I have found some very good horses for $20 or less. Xan bought an excellent Shetland Pony stallion for $14.If the animal is being offered as a "performer" I like to see some training and a public show record. The object of buying rather than adopting is to see what their traits are, whether they are AC/Foundation or have a pedigree of tens or hundreds of generations. It's rare for me to seriously consider a stupid horse ("couldn't find his way out of a paper bag", "this is one dumb mare", etc.) -- the longer I play, the pickier I get about some things, and that one especially. The candidate would have to have some compensating value in other respects.
The only Red in Intelligence I've ever seen was a horse that was obviously bred for unusual color. It had a pretty pattern and absolutely no other redeeming virtue. Sometimes HWO simulates IRL rather closely!
tl;dr
Sell 'em if you can, rehome if you have to.
Good luck and best wishes!
Re: Selling Horses
Well...
I definitely agree with previous reply. It's LOTS of good horses on sales, especially light horses, Arabian, Deliboz etc. With drafts it's more complicated to find really good foal. But I may be wrong. And not all players seek for stats. You should try to sell horse at least for day I think if you can afford it. It might be foal's last chance to live.
I would sell only unwanted horses from my side account: the one who I don't want to train or compete anymore, old broodmares. When I pick foals for training, I become very picky and may rehome unwanted ones. But! Before that I will think twice. Even more than twice. And it's not only about stats, I review horse's pedigree, parents' records and so on. There's a sad thing as Scythian said: I'm a highly focused on my goal and not a richest guy so I just can't let myself be kind to all.
I definitely agree with previous reply. It's LOTS of good horses on sales, especially light horses, Arabian, Deliboz etc. With drafts it's more complicated to find really good foal. But I may be wrong. And not all players seek for stats. You should try to sell horse at least for day I think if you can afford it. It might be foal's last chance to live.
I would sell only unwanted horses from my side account: the one who I don't want to train or compete anymore, old broodmares. When I pick foals for training, I become very picky and may rehome unwanted ones. But! Before that I will think twice. Even more than twice. And it's not only about stats, I review horse's pedigree, parents' records and so on. There's a sad thing as Scythian said: I'm a highly focused on my goal and not a richest guy so I just can't let myself be kind to all.