Horse Temperaments

[Winter_Pine_Stables]

I have been wondering about this for a long while, and i've searched everything temp/weight related, but I just cannot find anything that answers my question.

What feed mixtures would one use to keep a horse at, lets say, Calm. I know how to get a horse to High Strung and Bombproof, but I don't know how to get it and keep it at something between High and Bomb.......

Saw you were online, and you seem to be VERY knowledgeable on these things

Any help if appreciated!

[BlackOak2]

I have been wondering about this for a long while, and i've searched everything temp/weight related, but I just cannot find anything that answers my question.

What feed mixtures would one use to keep a horse at, lets say, Calm. I know how to get a horse to High Strung and Bombproof, but I don't know how to get it and keep it at something between High and Bomb.......

Saw you were online, and you seem to be VERY knowledgeable on these things

Any help if appreciated!

Sorry about the long wait to reply back.

It depends on the horse and how easily or difficult they move from one temp to another. For the most part, you offer then protein and balance out (without going over the bars) of sugar or fiber. This slows down their upward or downward temp movement and the protein is supposed to help sustain them in their temp.
Some horses are really easily sustained and go years before needing to be adjusted and some won't sustain at all and you will need to constantly nit-pick up and down.
To help with this, you can breed into your herd, temp genes that move much slower and have a much broader time-span in each temperament level. This can also benefit your competition scorings as well, by allowing you to incrementally move your horse's temp upward or downward to hone in on exactly where they work best at.
Be warned, that temp can move as quickly as one turn through a level or as slow as upwards of 3 years through a level. I don't know if it can get any quicker or slower than that.
I had a horse that could move from bombproof to calm to even to spirited and finally to high strung in as many turns, but I also had a horse that remained bombproof for 7 years before finally climbing out of that to calm. After that, it was every 3 years for the next level (if memory serves correctly). That horse was NOT born bombproof, but I also don't remember what it was born at.

So... performance is your basic feed for protein... try to balance the other two out between max feed capacity and (preferably) just under both fiber and sugar bars (or just at).

[Winter_Pine_Stables]

Any help if appreciated!

Sorry about the long wait to reply back.

Thank you! I gathered the aging (very quick or very slot) to change from other threads, but that was it, so you were a big help

[BlackOak2]

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