Clydesdale Club - Suggestions

Welcome to the official CC suggestions thread!

Got a great contest idea? Would you like to see prizes and rewards?
Feel free to make suggestions for the march term here.

Personally I would like to see these questions answered:

- Should we have open registration, or do we need some kind of quality control?
For example: No horses under 250 stats, no inbred horses...

- I am not planning on allowing just any stallion into the stud book. What should their minimum stats be? And what about inbred / linebred / overbred stallions?

I'm looking forward to hearing from you guys!

Last edited on 2016-03-01 at 08:56:02 by Féline

Registration
I would say that we shouldn't have quite an open registration, but the quality control shouldn't be so high that it's impossible for store horses to reach it, especially at the early stages of the new site when a lot of people are making completely new herds from equine center horses. I also think that horses should be accepted based on how many stats they have for their age group.

Studbook
I think that stallions should be a certain age- say, over 16 or 17, which should help with overbreeding and with people breeding better horses since they will have better stats when they are older.

I'm assuming that the club president can kick stallions from the studbook? Personally, I will only breed a stallion up to 3 times, so maybe we could say that the club president will kick any stallions once they are bred 3 times or whatever number we decide on? I would suggest that the absolute maximum number be 5 or below.

Personally I also only allow 3 foals per breeding... but I know a lot (or most...) people aren't as strict with stallion breedings.
I'm leaning more towards at least 500 stats, a minimum age of 15 and a maximum of 7 foals. But since clydes aren't that popular I think overbreeding won't be an issue.

As for inbreeding, I would like a zero tolerance policy. I avoid inbred or linebred horses like the plague. But again, I want to run a democratic club and I'm open to suggestions.


And I suggest the following for registration:

0-5 years old: At least 200 stats. That way store horses have a chance to build op stats and be registered, and only quality foals will be allowed.

6 years to 10 years : At least 300 stats

10 years and up: At least 400 stats

Stud book: At least 500 stats

Last edited on 2016-03-01 at 09:31:40 by Féline

^^^ i agree with Luv.

I am interested in this club for fellow breeders. But i am only interested in quality and i find this to be a good way to weed out the "others".

I dont want to discourage new breeders though if their herd is on the lower end because they are starting out so i think fairly simple requirements for registration might not be a bad idea, not to mention i tend to pick up horses from the RC and the stats could be hideously low but a work in progress. It will give the newbies an opportunity to work on their lines and and learn about raising the stats and points of the breed on EV.

The stud book however should have tighter control and more deliberate requirements. Like Luv i agree, 15 yrs or older so stats and points are higher. However you have members that breed for conformation, not stats and points so i wouldnt want to exclude them either, tough call. Max of 5 foals for me as well, i dont want over used lines. I personally dont breed if there are any inbreeding or line breeding but everyone feels different, maybe take a count on peoples choices.

Additional ideas would be add a mare section for members willing to breed out their mares for others. I do it on request. Thinking of a sales section too.

Do a stud fee reduction for members. Raffle prizes with free breedings. I will add more as i think of stuff.

Hope you enjoy being our pres!

that sounds good...yes, I'd even go for 2nd gen foals must have min. 250 stats and studs min 600 but we have to consider new players and make provisions for them so 200 stats sounds good...

^ Ditto

I think once a stud is put into the stud book it can't be removed; so controlling the number of foals that a stud has will be extremely difficult (I think that is how it worked on beta; but can't completely recall...)

I'm leaving this up until tomorrow and will be opening up registry then.

0-5 years old stores: At least 200 stats. That way store horses have a chance to build op stats and be registered, and only quality foals will be allowed.
0-5 year old 2nd gen and up: At least 250 stats/

6 years to 10 years : At least 300 stats

10 years and up: At least 400 stats

Stud book: At least 550 stats, minimum age is 16, max of 5 foals

Question: Just for reference. If i pay the $500 registration fee, what happens if the next club leader takes over and changes the registration guidelines and boots my horses?

I dont think we can boot horses once they're registered....there's no boot button...Pretty certain once your horse is accepted and registered...it stays registered.

Yep Windspun is right once a horse is registered there is no boot or unregister button. :)

Thank you for answering. I didn't want to pay $500 per horse everytime a club leaders requirement changed ;)

Hi, relative newbie to Equiverse clubs however I am thinking there should be some emphasis on conformation. Do you really want less than 50-55 conformation listed as a foundation of the breed? Also I guess I am not understanding the limits on breedings. Wouldn't you want a really nice stallion to be used to improve the breed?

I've been on EV almost a year, but I was never part of a club. I'm really interested in the Clydesdale Club though. Could some one please explain how I can join or register my Clydesdales? How does the club work? Thank you!

Edit: Figured it all out. Yay!

Last edited on 2016-03-14 at 15:03:12 by Valzed ❤ 🐎

Sparkles:
Since most serious players breed for stats and the current conformation system is very new, I will not place any emphasis on conformation.

Maybe in a year, when players have gotten a chance to adapt their breeding plans to the new conformation system we could have a minimum conformation rating.
But as for now breeders are only just getting used to it and it would be unfair to disqualify good horses because of "bad" conformation.

Personally, I would choose a 500 stat horse with 50 conformation over a 250 stat horse with 80 conformation anytime. Stats are just more important.

And since most store horses have a conformation rating somewhere between 50 or 60, I have no problems with them serving "foundation" stock. You get better confo by careful breeding, and everyone has to start somewhere.
And again... stats > conformation.

As for the breeding limit, it is all about creating a healthy gene pool.
Closely related horses can not be bred together, so we need as much diversity as we can get.

Valzed: Glad everything worked out!

Last edited on 2016-03-16 at 10:03:29 by Féline