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Building a show herd from scratch is tough. I've been working on it since June and I'm just getting up to where it kind of helps. I have some foals that I could put up for you for 1hb each, if you'd like. It'll take a while for them to start earning, but every little bit helps :)

Not to worry! I did the same thing when I first started and I'm sure everyone else has as well :) This is a great 'gaming' community and I've found loads of helpful people on here!

If you have room in your barn(s) I can send you a couple of show horses to help you get started. You'll get weekly 'pay' of some form thanks to how the game works which will be paid in each Sunday and a daily allowance based on your horses show points. Make sure you enter your horses in shows as much as you can to increase their chances of earning points and train them as well to increase these chances further.

Have you got your starter kit from Ammit? If you go onto the main Forum there's a page where new members can get a helping hand in their first two weeks which is very useful!

@BlackWaterEquine I've added you to my chat room LJDobbins Sales Room and I'll put up a few horses there for you now :)

I would also add that this game isn't one that you can make oodles of money at, and have a huge barn, and be super successful overnight. This game is based on long term strategy. It can take several real life years for you to get to the level of some of the biggest and most successful (money wise) barns in the game.

After Sunday if you go to your main stable page it will give you a button to click for 5,000 hbs every week.

If you have room in your stalls still, once you have money I would suggest filling all your extra stalls with random create mares, breed them all in paster for 500 hbs each and then sell both mares and foal at auction for a profit of 1000 hbs per horse auctioned. Doing that three times a week (at every auction) adds up. Once you can afford a new barn then you can get even more mares to breed and auction and get more income per auction. After a while it becomes more time effective to fill the auction room barns with show ponies and slowly get a show bonus up, which takes little time to maintain even though it doesn't bring in as much cash. It starts out slowly, but by the time I switched out to show ponies due to time I was sending over 200 horses through each auction and living quite comfortably.

Higher paper horses tend to create higher pt foals who should make better show earners eventually. I can send some extra fillies from my quick high paper breeding program next month and then if you can find a star papered appy boy you would then be able to produce a lot of really high pt snipped show foals, and hopefully a few would stay intact for making even more better quality show foals. The snipped horses make better showers sometimes, but high PT breeding stock show good too.

^ What they said!

If it gets frustrating sell or auction everything and start over again! I've only been around for 10 years, so I'm still a relative newbie! :P =))

Look for me using the AvailableToAdopt account and I will fix you up with even MORE show horses!

You said you're confused about the genetics part of the game. It can be confusing, but once you grasp a few basic points, it becomes a bit more understandable. This game is actually an excellent way to become acquainted with basic genetic concepts as well as what is known by scientists about the details of horse color genetics.

1. Every living thing has a set of genes that control everything about it. A mulitcellular living organism has two copies of every gene, one which each has inherited from its male parent and the other which was inherited from its female parent.

2. Genes are housed on pairs of chromosomes which each hold many individual genes. Once again, one member of the pairs came from the father and the other from the mother. Humans, for instance have 46 chromosomes in 23 pairs.

3. Every pair of chromosomes separates when the cells that pass on genes from parents to offspring are created.

4. Most genes have two varieties. One is usually dominant over the other. This means that the dominant form of the gene will be active when the creature has both a dominant and a recessive copy of that gene.

In horses, for instance, there is a gene that determines if the horse will have black hairs or reddish brown hairs. This gene is called Extension, and it is abbreviated E for the dominant or black producing form and e for the recessive or red producing form. A horse can be EE and will have black hair, Ee, which also produces black hair, or ee, which produces reddish brown hair.

The extension gene is closely linked with the Agouti gene, abbreviated A for the dominant form and a for the recessive form. Dominant agouti pushes the black pigment in hairs to the mane and tail, and lower legs, creating bay horses. A bay horse can be Ee AA, EE Aa, EE AA, Ee Aa. A horse that is ee AA will still be chestnut because it lacks the gene form that creates black hair. A horse that is EE or Ee aa will always be a black horse because it lacks the dominant Agouti to push the black hairs to the mane, tail and lower legs.

5. There are a number of other genes that affect the color of horses, usually by diluting either the red or the black pigment.

6. There are also a number of genes that affect the pattern of white and colored hair on a horse.

This is just the beginning. When you think you are understanding it, you can find more information in some of the links in this post.
http://hj2.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/15736/links-list#Item_7

If you would like more help, you can send me a private message (click on my stable name and look for the link to Send SandyCreekFarm a message. I can discuss any particular genes you are curious about, or any other aspect of the game.

Awesome thank you Sandy! :D

@ Starfire Since she probably has an nonupgraded account, she will have to post a link here. A player has to have at least a Basic upgrade to post horses for sale in a chat room.

I wouldnt call myself a great player or breeder, but im beginning to finally roll and breed some good stuff. I did exactly the same thing you did when i started. No worries, dont sweat it.

I would like to thank everyone on here for the amazing advice @ChilliFireFarm @StarfireAcres @SandycreekFarm @Dunbroc @Cheers @WildlandAcres @Salvistar @Alohomora @LJDobbins

I may be missing a few people, but thank you so much for everything. All the help is great!