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I have had many people requesting me to put this up, so I finally found the time to do it. I hope this helps, and it worked for me.

When you have completed preparing for you foal, you may now move on to covering and going through gestation with your mare. We had many of our Howrse members participate in the completion of the schedule, and all of them are named at the end of this guide. The schedules are here for altering also, so if you see a flaw, or do something a little differently than these schedules but follow the guidelines, you are welcome to post here. For the day of covering, we have came up with this schedule:

1.)Cover your mare with the stud of choice.
2.)Four hours in pasture
3.)Give your mare the saltstone. (If you do not have a saltstone, replace this for 30 minutes of box time.
4.)Give two lessons with your mare.
5.)Train for about two hours if not fully trained. Watch your energy. Energy loss during training varies. Don't kill your horse or foal.
6.)Stroke your mare twice.
7.)Groom your mare.
8.)Water your mare.
9.)Carrot. (optional)
10.) Feed grain.
11.) Left over time in box.
12.) Bedtime.

NOTE: If your mare is fully trained, you may enter a competition instead of training.

Congrats! Hopefully you got through your first day smoothly. Now the next day is the same as the first, except you don't have to cover your mare. Now we will show you what to do when you reach your 8th month of gestation, and when you are not allowed to do anything but lessons.

8 Month+ Gestation Schedule:

1.)Pasture 5 hours.
2.)Stroke your mare twice
3.)Groom
4.)Salt stone or box for 30 minutes.
5.)Water
6.)Two lessons
7.)Grain as needed.
8.)Bedtime

Keep this up, and on the 12th month click call the vet first, and return to normal routine. Now you have a young, healthy foal. Congradulations, and happy training.

List of help:

AlwaysAnAdventure
Ckat
barrelracer103
Smokin Dudette
lexio2

Thanks everyone!

Your doing a great job Cayla! Thank you for all of your useful information.

Thanks! Thank you for helping me with this. I have had a couple of people PM me about this, so I decided to give them their wishes.

your guides are SO fabulous! I'll definitely be using them next time i'm expecting a foal, which should be relatively soon. My mares are about to hit positive BLUP

Thanks! This really means alot to me!

i have used this guide on loads of my mares and it has been such a help!!! before i had no idea but now i can stick to a rutine and its been really good!

thanks

I would just like to add that if, like me, your mares are in semi-retirement when you start to breed them (I don't breed until BLUP is at 100 or VERY close to 100)

My breeding schedule looks like this:

Day of covering:
lesson
lesson
cover
6 hours pasture
rest of day spent on one-two comps, or spent in box if completely retired.

same schedule is used without covering until month 8 when it changes to:
lesson
lesson
6 hours pasture
box

until foaling.

do you only beed when your mare has been fully trained? and when do you reire them? i have been breeding as soon as i can is that a mistake? i have only really just started breeding so i dont no much

Yes, i only breed when training is complete and when all (if not most) of the 20 competitions needed to reach BLUP have been won.

If you explore this site more, hardy123, you will find lots of information about how breeding before you mares and stallions have reached BLUP 100 will result in inferior foals of less quality than the parents.

BLUP and GP can be seen after passing RL4 and other places in this forum have more information on it.

i have also chosen to breed when my stallions and mares are at 100 blup, i get better foals hat way...


but its a choice, so no mistakes made.. it depends why you are breeding.

it is easier to sell foals with a good genetic potential and better inborn skills

[size=7][size=18]this help me soo much thank you and keep up the great work [/size][/size]

Yup ; great guide everyone's got together.
Just to add - I normally do the two lessons before I cover my mare.

Is there a time when you have to retire your howrses? If not when is a good time to do so-when they get to 100blup

You could retire them from competitions when they are not gaining anything if you want to use them for breeding only, you could retire them from breeding when their GP has creeped too low, but when the BLUP has reached 100 that is prime time for breeding to start (and not before if you want to breed high quality horses). I wouldn't totaly retire any living horse that can still do lessons because that makes you money. I don't have any horses that are so old that they can't do lessons anymore, but if I did I would "retire" them untill they have to be sent to the big pasture in the sky so I could get my pass for them dying.

ill give it a go