Hello everyone :) Just a general sort of question really, I was wondering how people go about the game? I've seen some posts about waiting for a horse to be almost retired before breeding, and only breeding once?

Do people generally just show, show, show until the horse is near retirement?

Also do people tend to focus on specific breeds?

Sorry for the jumble of questions lol :)

Most people have one breed per account, so you can take advantage of the breed specialty bonus! :) 

But yeah, basically! Train, train, train, breed, and then retire, and start the next gen!

Check out the help page (link in the header!) for more info and the breed specialty.

Thank you! :)

You can breed back ups incase somebody wants to buy them and if not you can request them to be deleted.

Train, train, train is basically what the game is about. That and building lines/pedigrees. 

I mostly breed once either on the Sunday before an animal retires, or (in very rare cases) the day before it retires. I try to keep all my animals aging on Sundays.

On most of my accounts I have a single breed, but on a couple, I have a max of two. This account has the most animals on it, with the others having between one and four pairs.

When I breed backups, I sell them. Any that don't shift by two or three years, are taken off sale and marked for deletion.

Thanks everyone, it's interesting as it's not like other games I've played!

I used to breed mine the day before they retired but if something happened that day I would miss the breeding.  I managed this for over a year successfully but it meant my own lines would then breed on Sat and then the next time Fri and so on whereas the stores always retire on a Sunday.

I have a different breed on each of my accounts but I've seen where someone maybe had GSD and Husky on same account.  Train GSD on Sunday and then change breed specialty to Husky and train them.  Following Sunday train Husky, switch specialty to GSD and then train them and so on - breed specialty can only be changed every 7 days.

The breeds I do are ones I love in real life - GSD, Arab, New Forest, Highland and Connemara.  I do Zombie Paints because they're cool.  I find that where I've dropped a few other breeds I stick with these ones as I have a connection to them.

Thanks for all that info :)

So with lines do people just create their own brand or something? I noticed that under the horse info

Brands are so the players who own that brand can track their animals, especially when they sell them. Also so people can see where branded animals originated. You put the brand/tag into Search and it will show you the original player.

I don't brand my animals that I keep, just ones I sell. 

I did breeding the same way as tifi. Doing it the day before animals retire is tiring because you have to keep track of when each GEN ages.

I have several breeds on each account. But I have one major breed on each that I focus on on each account and then only one pair of any extra breeds on each account (easier to train one pair without enter all than 10 pairs without enter all). I love so many! I couldn't pick just a few. But I can't afford a gazillion upgrades. So it is what it is. But all the breeds I have a connection to so I don't want to let them go and I've been going with them for awhile now.

Pretty much agree with what everyone else has said above :).

I work hard at training my animals every week, and without missing a week, until they are 18 for horses or 14 for dogs, breed for backup foals/pups and then train for another two weeks and breed again at 20 and 15. This gives me more opportunity of getting pairs out of the foals/pups if I have 2 groups aged the same rather than just the one breeding.

It seems there is not a whole lot of buying of other lines on the game, at least not with my breeds, so I generally end up deleting whichever batch of foals/pups I decide not to keep.

And most players just seem to strive for making their lines whatever they are happy with, this may be 100k horses or dogs to some, or millions and millions of points to others. It is all a personal preference!

And WELCOME!