Caring for horses over 25 years of age
- Once a horse turns 25 they begin to lose health and skills every day if they have not got a Philosophers Stone. If you were planning on doing that you should have done that before 25 years of age
- A horse will lose 2% health every night and during their actions during the day they can lose another 1%.
- Do no competitions, no training rides, no rides in trotting, galloping or on sloping land and no breeding.
- Don't even feed in the meadow or do box time, that lowers health too. Just groom-lesson-feed-bed. The lesson occasionally brings down health by 1%, but the horse will still have fairly high health (20-30%) even at 30, and that takes care of cost of feed and board.
- Always find a boarding facility that has clean and fertile pastures. You don't want your older horse to be poisoned by eating a toxic plant.
- Always have Black orchids on hand in case you accidentally mess things up. You don't want to get to 29 years 10 months on a horse you are planning to get a pass from and then it die.
- Make sure they're boarded in an EC with health mashes for their 25th birthdayy, their health lowers on that day (to 98%) but you can still feed a health mash, which brings it back up to 100%.
- If you are trying to get a pass horse then you should try and get the health as low as possible by the time its 30, You don't want to have to want ageing points and time on it trying to reduce its health. Once you are past 30, do a lesson and then train/ride/compete until 24:00, getting energy as low as possible. Don't feed or groom. Your pass horse should die the next day.
- If you buy a horse that is 25 and over you should make sure that it has been properly cared for and has relatively high health. you don't want to buy an almost pass horse or just an old horse and it die almost straight away! Make sure it has been fed enough, groomed, and watered.