Inbreeding is breeding 2 horses that share blood lines,
like breeding between family members.
Examples :
breeding a father with his daughter is inbreeding
breeding a mother with her son is inbreeding
breeding a brother with his sister is inbreeding
In real life, it can cause genetic defects but here on Howrse it doesn't matter.
inbreeding has no effects on the game howrse
Most of the elite horses
are inbred
Here is the example of :
He is in the Elite horses,
his parents are brother and sister
To know if a horse is inbred,
on the bottom left of the horse's page,
you can look into his genealogical tree >
You will see his parents, and you can go on checking,
by looking in the genealogical tree of his parents,
and so on... until you reach the foundation parents
(born from Ouranos and Gaia)
It can happen that you find a "disappeared horse"
when you look in the genealogical tree of a horse.
A horse becomes "disappeared horse" when :
- his owner has deleted his account, and is a "retired breeder"
- the account has been deleted for more than 10 days
Dead horses, or horses in the Safe Haven,
don't become "disappeared horses".
A horse whose "original breeder" is a "retired breeder"
doesn't disappear.
You can use the GenDB to get a full pedigree for a howrse,
even if some of the parents have become "disappeared horses".
The names may be incorrect, because they are not updated, but the full pedigree is there.
Remember to use the howrse ID number and not the name.