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1. Check their ages. If they are only 3 they can't be bred until next breeding season in January.
2. If they are of breeding age (4 and older), check to see if they were already bred this year. Mares can only be bred once per season, unless you are upgraded to pull eggs (Level 5, I believe) or create embryos (Level 4).
3. The pastured mares will be automatically bred about the middle of the month, but there is the button to trigger the pasture breeding at your pleasure, once you are able to breed for the season (2nd or 3rd of the month, depending on your upgrade status). Clicking it will breed all the pastured mares. Make sure you have enough HB's to cover the cost.
4. Once they have three living foals, mares can be papered, if you have the correct upgrade level. This lets you know what their quality is as a brood mare. Starting with the lowest level and ending with the highest, the mare papers are Failed, Yellow, Red, Blue, and *Gold. As you can see, a Blue papered mare is a very good breeder. Mare papering costs 2,500 hb. Foundation mares are generally Yellow or Red papered.

Most lines do not produce Blue mares until relatively high generations, unless the early generations have been boosted. It is generally considered good breeding practice to breed mares and stallions of the same generation together, especially if one of the goals is to continually produce better offspring with every new generation. Horses with mixed generation pedigrees do not sell as well.

Studs must be at least 3.

Horses are breedable until they reach the age of 20.

I just answered that in your other thread, but if things aren't clear, ask for more info there.

If the mare is in a pasture, you must put a stallion into the pasture with her OR remove her from the pasture to breed her to a stallion up for public stud. The game does not find stallions for pastured mares.

Thank you :)

Mares can be bred once a season and stallion 20 times, unless you are upgraded. Then you can pull eggs, create straws, ect. :)

Actually, stallions can have 50 foals per season, not 20. As for selling straws, the best way would be to advertize on the forum in the Breding Ads and Sales section.

The breeding season is open through the 27th.

It depends on your goals. Selling horses is not really a way to get ahead in this game, since there are always more horses to sell than players looking to buy. Many of us are playing to create a line of horses that continues to improve in ability as the generations go by. I'd recommend keeping the best foals, selling the rest, and working on breeding both foundation and lined horses so that you can build sturdy, sound lines.