Hey guys, just signed up the other day. I have a couple questions.

First, is inbreeding okay? Will it affect the foal in any way? And will I be able to sell inbred foals?

Second, how does crossbreeding work? Is it possible to crossbreed? What breed will a crossbred foal be? Do people buy crossbred foals? And I saw on the chat a mention that anything shorter than 14.2 hh is a sport pony. Is that true? Are there other ways to get different breeds?

Third, can a free account purchase and use straws? What's a sexed straw? Is it worth it to buy straws to breed my mares or should I just use my stallions?

Thank you for reading and helping me out!!

Most all horses on HEE are inbred so no nothing effects the foals yes people do buy them.

Pretty sure there is a guild for cross breeding horses and what you could get they wouldnt say ISH cross with pon it would be one or other yes people buy them.

No only primum accounts can use straws

Inbreeding is fine as long as horses match. You can breed in a really bad trait weakness anytime you're not pairing strengths to weaknesses correctly. So say if the offspring comes out with the sire's weaknesses, you wouldn't want to send her back to her sire. However if they ended up with traits more like her dam's, you could use him again.

Edit: For example most top KNN are weak in Scp because for a while the only WWW KNN stud was weak there. Since you can't crossbreed KNN, people used him like crazy. However this girl is an example of when inbreeding works because she ended up with strengths similar to her dam's.

As Electra mentioned there is a guide for crossbreeding here.

A sexed straw is an item that will fix the gender of your foal if you use a straw in the match. You can't use one with a live cover.

It is worth it to use other peoples' stallions as long as you make sure they're stronger ones. However as a free stable you can just use live covers instead of straws.

I've seen that horse on the login page, the art's gorgeous!!!

here is the cross breeding sheet

WB sire X WB dam = WB foal
TB sire X TB dam = TB foal
WB sire X TB dam = WB foal
TB sire X WB dam = SH foal
SH crossed with anything except ISH = SH foal
SH crossed with ISH = ISH foal
RID (sire or dam) x RID = RID
RID (sire or dam) x anything = ISH
ISH (sire or dam) x anything = ISH
KNN sire X KNN dam = KNN foal IF a filly has LP or a colt has LP and PATN. If a foal doesn't meet these criteria, it will be a SH
RID or ISH sire X KNN = ISH
KNN sire X RID or ISH dam = ISH
KNN sire X anything not KNN, ISH, or RID = SH
Any sire not KNN, ISH, or RID X KNN = SH
AA sire X AA dam = AA
Any AA x TB = AA
X sire with X dam = X
Any X with TB = X
PON x Anything = PON if the foal 14.2 hands or under
PON x Anything = SH if the foal is over 14.2 hands

I agree! Lizzy made it during the first artist rumble and I just couldn't resist when she was auctioning things off XD

Okay thank you guys all so much!!!