FarmVille - Horseplay - A Guide to the New Horse Breeding

FarmVille - Horseplay - A Guide to the New Horse Breeding

The stable has gone through a few versions since it was originally introduced in March 2010. The latest change about a month or so ago affected the way that players are able to make foals, making my previous guide obsolete. Sigh. But I AM going to use my old guide as a skeleton to write this new guide, mostly because I’m lazy.

You may have noticed that some of your friends seem to crank out one foal after another after another. The method is usually called “Stable Stuffing”, but I call it “making my friends very very happy.”

Stable Stuffing is very tedious and boring to do, but it DOES make your friends very happy. And if your friends also do it, so much the better because you can trade foals with one another. 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. 

2) Seed horses. These are the standard brown,gray and black mares. Or cream mini horses and blue ponies work well too. 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, alien, forest horse.. whatever you’ve got. There’s way too many to mention them all.

4) A Stallion (stud). Either a white, black or mini stallion, which are permanent studs that you can place on your farm and move around.  The wandering stallion is just not common enough to be use in rapid succession. You’d have to be constantly looking through your friend’s walls for wandering ones. Breeding programs that involve white black and mini-stallions also give you access to their foal equivalent. There is no “Wandering Stallion foal”.

An overview of what to expect- What this trick does is take an empty stable and set it to 100%. From there, you harvest it, put another “ready” horse inside, which sets it to 100% ready again, and harvest again. Repeat – Repeat – Repeat. Remember that every time you harvest your stable, you have a chance at getting a foal equivalent of any horse that’s currently in it.

Step 1: Make sure your stable is empty and all your other horses are standing outside of it. Your seed horses need to be at least 35% ready to be able to do this.

Step 2: Switch to the Move tool, and put your stud (stallion) in the stable. Switch to the multi-tool and harvest the stable for a chance at getting a foal equivalent of your stud. (Black stallion foal, white foal, white mini foal, etc)

Step 3: Switch to the Move tool again, and move one of your special horses into the stable. Now you have both your stallion and your special horse in the stable. If the special horse was over 35% ready, you’ll notice that your stable went from 0% ready to READY! Pretty nifty, huh?  Harvest your stable if it became ready, otherwise just go to step 3.

Step 3: Put one of your seed horses into the stable. Your stable went from 0% ready to READY! Awesome! Now you have the stallion, the special horse, and a seed horse in the stable. Switch to the multi-tool and harvest your stable. If you get a foal, it will be of one of the horses that’s inside. Which means that it might be a foal of your seed. Just saying.

Step 4: Repeat step 3 for as long as you have ready horses to spare. Or you get tired of doing it.

Step 5: When you are done, tired, bored, whatever…. take ALL of your horses out of the stable and leave them outside to mature until tomorrow or so. I guess, if you want… you can leave the stallion inside. It’s up to you. I take them all out, personally.

Have you noticed that ever time you put a ready (35% or higher) horse in the stable, the stable becomes ready to harvest? That’s the main point of the trick, and what you need to keep in mind as you play around with this trick.

PART 2

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.

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!

Before I forget, here’s some things you should probably know.

1) Permanent stallions, such as the white stallion, black stallion, and white mini stallion are usually only found in Mystery Games or (at one time) mystery boxes. They’re usually rare, so it can take a lot of real money to aquire one. So far, there has NEVER been one available for coin. Honestly, I don’t think they’ll ever make one available that’s easy to get because horse breeding is a big big money maker for Zynga.

2) I recommend that you accumulate a lot of cream mini horses to use as your seed horses. For one, they’re much smaller than a normal horse. You can fit 4 minis in the same area that a normal horse takes up. Also, they’re cuter.  The only way to get cream horses is to put any kind of mini foal in your nursery and hope it grows up. Don’t put in rare mini foals, such as nightmares, unless you have a lot to spare. Even those will turn into cream horses.

Any other tips? Please comment below. Hope you find this guide useful.

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