Paint Breeding

[lxXrebelXxl]

So I'm currently trying to breed a paint horse and I bred a male Spanish barb to a female quarter horse but it was just a cross breed. Do I need to use a male quarter horse and female Spanish barb or do I need to breed more of one breed into it? I'm kinda new to making new breeds from scratch

[BlackOak2]

So I'm currently trying to breed a paint horse and I bred a male Spanish barb to a female quarter horse but it was just a cross breed. Do I need to use a male quarter horse and female Spanish barb or do I need to breed more of one breed into it? I'm kinda new to making new breeds from scratch

A Paint horse is made by crossing a Spanish Barb to a Quarter Horse. But just because you cross these two horses, doesn't mean the resulting foal will be a paint horse. It's still a flip-of-a-coin whether the new horse will be the appropriate breed.

Getting the resulting foal closer to the Paint horse requirements will increase your chances of the correct breed popping. But this doesn't guarantee it will happen.

You also don't need to use purebred horse parents for the recipes either, just as long as there aren't any other breeds listed outside of the recipe, so for instance, you can use a part or half Spanish Barb but you can't use a Part Spanish Barb x Tarpan (95%).

Aim for getting as close to 5 star for the resulting foal to a Paint Horse's requirements and you should have a much easier time of getting your foal.

[lxXrebelXxl]

Thank you! this will help me so much in the future because people were saying to mix different breeds into it so I'm glad someone told me ahead of time

[BlackOak2]

Thank you! this will help me so much in the future because people were saying to mix different breeds into it so I'm glad someone told me ahead of time

You can use other horses to create a new parent horse closer to your goal of getting a Paint horse. However, I would suggest you only use grade horses because those foals will pop out as a mixed or part or half of your primary breed (Purebred Spanish Barb to a Grade horse will pop a Half Spanish Barb foal).

Using grade horses (or other horse breeds with a little extra work to get that breed disappeared from the breed line) can help a great deal to increase height, decrease height, increase build toward pony, increase build toward horse and other such changes, but to breed a Paint horse from the Barb and Quarter really shouldn't be much of an issue, as long as you use Barbs and Quarters that are 4 or 5 star themselves. Paint horses aren't all that different in their requirements than those two parent breeds. In fact, the Paint horse requirements fall almost right in between them. You will want to aim for a slightly more horse-like quarter horse (so a lighter build quarter horse) but that's about it.

If you continue to run into issues, linking the horses your using and perhaps a foal they popped, we can help to pinpoint where your issues might be.
Good Luck!