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Somatic tattoos are used to label horses and make them easier to sort and search for on the horse search page. Players can create any tattoos they like to make it easier to keep track of their horses. Usual tattoos are breeder/stable tattoos, generation tattoos, and tattoos for particular lines within a stable. (There was a good thread a while back on how to best use tattoos. I'll see if I can find it and post the link.) The tattoo registry is on your home page under the account and stable management section, but I think you need an upgrade for this feature. However, it sounds like the tattoos you are describing are all from herd helpers. When you create a horse with a herd helper, the horse automatically gets a somatic tattoo of the herd helper it came from. The same goes for special create events like Appy Hour (Friday at 4-5pm game time, I think) which all get heterozygous appaloosa tattoos, and other special events like Blackout, where all the horses come out black, regardless of herd helper.

Also, tattoos created by the player will show up on the horses image, with the exception of a lip tattoo, rather than just in the tattoo list on the horses main page, and foals, who can GET tattoos, but they don't show up until they turn 2.

You can find a description of all herd helpers on your Member Home page. Open the Account And Stable Management tab and go to the My Herd Helper Collection link. There you will find a list of all herd helpers currently in the game, with a description of what each one does. I frequently use this as a reference for herd helpers I'm not familiar with, that way I know what I'm getting when I purchase a horse with a herd helper somatic tattoo.

For example, here's what the list says(for me) under Vault of Stars:
Look to the night sky and see its vast vault of stars. All horses will be black with tobiano, white, splash, appaloosa and frame genes. They may also have additional rare genes.
1411 Vault of Stars horses in game, 0 owned by me

This herd helper triggers the following primary herd helpers
Heterozygous Black Homozygous Rec. Bay Homozygous Rec. Cream Homozygous Rec. Dun Homozygous Rec. Gray Homozygous Tobiano Heterozygous White 2 Heterozygous Frame Heterozygous Splash Heterozygous Appaloosa

ConfluenceStable, what is the Foundation rescue?
thank you!

The public auction runs on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, so if you check Foundation Rescue on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, or Monday, you will likely find new horses there.

At this moment, there are over 5000 horses in the rescue. Some are plain, but others have interesting patterns.