Breeding equines

[doxiediva]

Do donkeys and horses still breed if they are attached to a cart or do they need to unattached? I recently unlocked carts and am trying to determine a good starting ratio of donkeys to carts.

[Gorby]

They still breed if attached to carts (according to the devs) but it seems like they don't breed very well if you have too many carts; I usually make half as many carts as I have horses/donkeys.

[martiño]

They should breed when attached to carts.
This whole cart/breeding/feeding thing is a bit confusing and unbalanced ATM, we will try to find a solution for the problem.

[BarbeQ]

I guess for those animals this whole situation is confusing as well. I mean, this carts do get in they way after all, while they try to... :)

[Agent Orange]

A cart attached to the back never stopped anyone from breeding!

[Dragonrubi]

Donkeys and horses consume straw during winter?

I also have unlocked horses but I have none, because I am not sure: what advantage they will give me over donkeys?

I ask because during winter animals eat all my straw (and I don’t want to cultivate more because they are already complaining of work overload and they take ages to cultivate and harvest).

[Gorby]

Originally posted by dragonrubi:

I also have unlocked horses but I have none, because I am not sure: what advantage they will give me over donkeys?

The devs have stated that horses are slightly faster than donkeys.

[Foghail]

Originally posted by martiño:

They should breed when attached to carts.
This whole cart/breeding/feeding thing is a bit confusing and unbalanced ATM, we will try to find a solution for the problem.

Maybe add a hitching post that the horses go to once their current task is complete or have been abandoned on task? As its infuriating to watch 25 horse / carts just sit at the outskirts of my city while there is tasks that constantly require those carts but its faster to dispatch 5 villagers to go do it then to get one of them to use common sense and go get the horse.

Carts/-----------------/Villagers/--------------/Task Location

Simple Fix as i stated in an earlier post would be a Town Monument and use it as a central anchor point for task dispatch. And unless the job is closer linear then dispatch from central.