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Mares must be 4-19 years old to breed and must say “bred this year: 0” on their page (also seen from the search page info)

Stallions must be 3-19 years old but they can breed up to 50 times a year

Tattoos are visual (usually, a tattoo can be placed on the inner lip and not seen) designs used by players to mark horses they have created or bred or certain genes, generations, etc. The ability to use tattoos is an upgrade feature, starting with the basic upgrade.

In the game, and in real-life, genes are sections of DNA in the nucleus of the cells that create or control or adapt features of an organism. In the game we deal only with those genes and mutations of genes that affect the colors and color patterns of our horses. Genes have the ability to be handed down from parent to foal through the generations. If a color or pattern is common in real horses (think bay, chestnut, gray, dun, roan, tobiano, splash to name the most common) it will be common in the game. Others are somewhat rare like champagne or rabicano, very rare like satin or White 10, or extremely rare--these genes are special ones for which the player has paid real money to own a license to breed.

All horses for free accounts belong to the "National" breed. Players with a Basic Upgrade may create a breed name for the horses they create or breed, so long as it isn't a real breed name like thoroughbred or Arab, and is also not an English word found in a dictionary, the name of a region or place. My stable name is SandyCreekAcres, so I looked up ways to say Sandy Creek in other languages and settled on the German Bachsandigen.