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Actually, the breeding season ENDS on the 28th. Read this recent updated link reguarding the breeding season.

http://www.huntandjump.com/forum.php#/discussion/4304/official-change-in-breeding-season-times

Actually the 28th is the end of breeding season (as of Ammit's recent announcement http://www.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/4304/official-change-in-breeding-season-times#Item_15.) Breeding seasons (and game years) last 2 months. They start at the beginning of January, March, May, July, September, and November. The game owner and administrators start breeding on the 1st to be sure there are no buggs, upgraded members receive a start time on the 2nd, and everyone else gets a start time on the 3rd. It used to be that breeding season only lasted until the 28th of the first month of the game year, but that has just been changed.

There are 3 ways to breed your mares.

The cheapest is pasture breeding which costs 500hb in vet bills to produce each foal. You must own your own mare(s) and stallion. Go to your pasture, use the drop lists to put the horses in it and click the "Breed All Your Pastures" button. If you leave your mares in the pasture before breeding them they get a cumulative breeding bonus for each day they are in the pasture before breeding (up to 30 days after which the bonus tops out). When a foal is bred the game uses a secret formula which combines the breeding abilities of the parents with a random factor twice to determine the training and breeding ability of the foal. The pasture breeding bonus increases the chance that the random factor will be favorable, producing foals at the top end of the range for the cross.

Next is live cover which costs 1000hbs for the vet bill plus the stud fee. For this you only need to own 1 parent and can find plenty of horses available for pubic stud or brood (many with very low stud fees) using the horse search. There is a "Breed to this Horse" button at the bottom of the Horse Info page of horses which are available for stud. When you click it it will bring up a drop box with all the horses you own that are available to breed to it. Pick one, name the foal, and click the "Create Foal" button. If you are using your own mare and stallion, you will need to put one of them up for public stud using the "Set Breeding Fee" button on the horse's Control Panel. You must have enough money in you account to cover the fee even though it will be deposited back to you. If you set the fee very low it is best to put your stallion public since stallions can have 50 live cover (and/or pasture) foals per year, while mares can only have 1 foal each year, in case someone else breeds to you horse before you.

The third method of breeding is artificial insemination (AI) and is one of the features available to level 3 and higher upgraded accounts.