a Guide to Breeding Horses version 2

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May 132010

This post was written with the help of Madelainez S., Sandra G., Kim O., and Alonzo M. Thanks for the help!

I originally wrote this article on May 11th, 2010 – at that time, the White Stallion had been released for the second time as a prize in a “Best-of” mystery box. Since then, that mystery box as well as the whole mystery box system has been discontinued. �As of this edit (August 4th, 2010), there is a mini-stallion available in the new mystery game which acts as stud similarly to the White Stallion. Many changes to the game have happened since I originally wrote this – including the addition of the move tool, and one-click harvesting of stables. It became apparent to me that it was time for a rewrite.
So how does Horse Breeding work? Share
There are two ways you can approach it. The Easy Way and the Involved Way.
The Easy Way is very, very simple. You merely fill your stable full of horses, make sure there’s a stud horse in there, and harvest the stable every day or so. Easy, peasy. You either get a foal, farmhands, arborists, 100XP or you don’t get anything- and that’s the end of it for the rest of the day.

The Boys of FarmVille - White Stallion, white foal, mini stallion, stallion mini foal.

The Involved Way is much more time consuming. The benefit is that you are able to “crank out” multiple foals a day. It gets tedious very quickly – but your friends will love you for it. Not to mention that they’re more inclined to pay you back for your generosity by also taking the time to breed a foal for you. Win-win!
The Involved Way is more commonly known as “Stable Rotation”. What you are doing is basically leaving your horses outside of the stable to become ready, and then using them to set the stable to ready over and over again.
First you need to do a little preparation. People seem to get hung up on this part so I’ll try to make it as clear as possible. Before you begin breeding.. you NEED to have a completely empty stable. All your horses stay outside. They only go into the stable for a few minutes while you’re breeding, and then they go back outside and mature outside.
What you need:
1) A Stable. If you still need to build it, you can find a gifter at this link.
2) Seed horses. These are the standard brown,�gray and black mares. You’ll need a lot of them.. one for each attempt. They need to be OUTSIDE of your stable. You will use these to set your stable from 0% to ready status.
3) At least one special horse or pony. Special horses include the clydesdale, cream draft, �percheron, pinto, (brown) pony, pink haired pony, �purple hair pony, blue hair pony, mustang, haflinger, morgan, mustang, black stallion, breton.. whatever you’ve got. That’s in no way a complete list.
4) A Stallion (stud). Either a white, wandering or mini stallion. White and mini is best. �If you don’t have one, you’ll constantly be having to look through your friend’s walls for wandering ones. Breeding programs that involve white and mini-stallions also give you access to their foal equivalent. �There is no “Wandering Stallion foal”.
Just a note about the Black Stallion: The Black Stallion doesn’t act as a stud at all. (yes, very disappointing). In fact, it behaves more like a mare – the black stallion foal is a possible result from putting a black stallion in your stable, but you will also need another stallion in the stable to make it happen. Yeah. Edit: Nevermind – they fixed the Black Stallion since the last time I tried using him. ~The FG
An overview of what to expect- What this trick does is take an empty stable and set it to 100%. From there, you fill it with the special horses that you want to make foals from.
Step 1: Make sure your stable is empty and the common horses are outside waiting. You need the commons to be at least 34% ready before you can start.
Step 2: Switch to the Move tool. Put a seed horse (one that’s at 34% or higher) into the stable. The stable will become “ready”.
Step 3: Put your special horses into the stable, regardless of readiness. Anything you want to breed. If you just want anything, throw them all in there… if you’re trying to make a specific foal, just put that type in there.
Step 4: Put your stud in the stable, or go find a Wandering Stallion from the newsfeed. You can sometimes talk your friends into telling you when they post one if you promise them a foal. There’s another way two, which i’ll mention below.
Step 5: When you’re ready, switch to the multi-tool and click on the stable. Wait until you get a message.. you will always get a message but sometimes it takes a while. Most of the time you will just get a token amount of money, but if you’re lucky you’ll get xp, farmhands or a foal.
Step 6: Completely empty the stable and start again at Step 2. Do this for as long as you have the patience. (and spare seed horses)
If you want to save your foals to give to specific people, you can do that. Each link is good for 5 foals, but a person can only take 1 each. To get the link for your foal, you need to set the privacy settings on your wall post to “Just me”, and then post it. This way, only you can see the actual post – it’s hidden from everyone else.
From there, go to your own wall, and right-click on the words “Adopt the (whatever) foal” A context menu will pop up, which looks different depending on your browser. For Chrome, select “Copy link address”. For Firefox, select “Copy Link location”, and for Internet Explorer, it’s “Copy Shortcut”.
From there, you can private-message your friends and paste that URL that you just copied into the message. Foal links expire after 8 hours – so don’t hold onto it for too long.
Here’s a visual guide to help you understand how to get your foal links. Please view each one in order.

If you are unlucky, you'll see this.	If you're lucky, you'll see this!	Hiding the post from everyone...
Change it to "Only me"	Copy the URL and give it to whomever!

You can, of course, choose to just post the foal to your wall. Nothing wrong with that! Hope this helps – I’d like to think I’ve made some of my friends pretty happy by giving away these cute little foals – and I’ve gotten some in return too. It’s win-win!

Thanks again to Madelainez S. for allowing me to borrow information from her guide! FarmVille and Zynga are trademarks of Zynga Game Network. All images are the copyright of their respective owners.

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