🐴 Horse Wellbeing

• 🔎 Where to Check Your Horse’s Condition
• ❤️ The Welfare Menu
• 📊 The Stats Menu
• 🥕 Horse Nutrition
• 🩺 Operations and Illness

🔎 Where to Check Your Horse’s Condition

Most of the important information is shown in your horse menus.

Use your horse menu to view:

• Welfare for care, nutrition, cleanliness, hoof condition, and general health
• Stats for the horse’s core traits and indicators
• Daily Care for care tasks that still need to be completed
• Symptoms and Illnesses indicators when something seems wrong

If you use /horse view, or left click your horse, that opens the main horse menu for your selected horse. From there, players can access the horse’s welfare and stats pages.

❤️ The Welfare Menu

The Welfare menu is one of the most important places to check. It currently shows player-facing wellbeing details like:

• fullness
• hydration
• protein
• lipids
• carbohydrates
• sugar
• hoof cleanliness
• overall cleanliness
• hoof length
  
• wormer status
• daily care completion
• heat status, when relevant
• last teeth float
• wolf teeth removal
  

This menu is the best place to get a fast overview of whether your horse is being properly maintained.

Feeding and Hydration

Food and water matter for more than just appearances. The system tracks fullness and hydration, and the welfare menu also shows nutrition breakdowns like protein, lipids, carbohydrates, and sugar.

If these are ignored, your horse’s condition can slip, and that can affect overall wellbeing.

Good feeding habits:

• make sure the horse has access to food
• make sure the horse has access to water
• do not ignore low fullness or hydration
• keep an eye on the nutrition bars

Cleanliness and Hoof Care

• hoof cleanliness /h hoof-clean-tool
• overall cleanliness /h brush
• hoof length ask a farrier for a hoof trim

Grooming and hoof care are part of wellbeing, If these are slipping, your horse is not being maintained properly.

A good routine is:

• complete daily care regularly
• keep the horse clean
• watch hoof condition
• do not leave hoof work or dental work for too long

Health, Symptoms, and Illness

General horse health is shown in the Welfare menu, and that page can also lead you into:

• illnesses
• symptoms
  
• work needing done

If your horse has visible symptoms or active illness issues, those need attention quickly. A horse that is physically unwell is much more likely to have other wellbeing problems layered on top.

Daily Care

Daily care is one of the clearest signs of whether a horse is being looked after properly. The Welfare screen directly shows whether daily care is complete, and it can send you to the Daily Care screen if it is not.

📊 The Stats Menu

The Stats menu shows deeper horse information, including both stats and indicators.

Important wellbeing-related stats and indicators include:

• stress
• aggression
• frustration
• spookiness
• obedience
• restlessness

This is where you can see the horse’s current state compared to its natural baseline. That matters because some horses may naturally be more sensitive, spooky, or stress-prone than others.

Stress

Stress is one of the biggest wellbeing issues to watch.

A stressed horse may:

• become harder to handle
• show visible stress behaviors
• become more likely to refuse riding
• contribute to other behavior problems

The code currently shows that highly stressed horses can sometimes be too stressed to start a ride at all. Stress also feeds into other systems, including aggression.

To help reduce stress:

• avoid pushing a horse too hard
• keep up with proper care and daily maintenance
• pay attention to illness or discomfort
  

Frustration

Frustration is different from stress, but just as important.

High frustration can lead to:

• panic behaviors
• more difficult handling
• rider ejection in some situations
• more unstable behavior overall

A horse that feels trapped, neglected, or repeatedly bothered is more likely to become frustrated. Some actions help reduce frustration, including:

• scratches and positive interaction
• riding in the right conditions
• social or free-roam style behavior
• group movement in some cases

Aggression

Aggression affects how safe and manageable a horse feels.

A horse with higher aggression is more likely to:

• react poorly under pressure
• contribute to rider ejection checks
• feel more difficult to manage in stressful situations

Aggression can be influenced by the horse’s baseline traits as well as current conditions. Stress can also push aggression higher. The best way to manage aggression is to stay ahead of the systems that feed into it:

• lower stress
• keep the horse comfortable
• keep daily care current
  

Spookiness and Other Behavior Clues

Spookiness also plays into wellbeing, especially when a horse feels uncertain or overstimulated. A spooky horse may react more dramatically to situations, and it can combine badly with stress or frustration.

If a horse seems jumpy, difficult, or quick to react, it is worth checking:

• stress
• frustration
• spookiness
• overall care and condition

🥕 Horse Nutrition

Main Nutrients

The four primary nutrients are:

- Carbs
- Lipids
- Protein
- Sugar

These values can be viewed in the horse’s Welfare tab.

Feed and Supply

Horse feed can be purchased from Reynold’s Grain & Forage Co in Ventura. Players can locate it with /compass.

Feed is sold in larger quantities rather than as a single-use item. A full bag is intended to keep one horse fed for roughly 15 days.

Daily Nutrient Loss

Horses lose 17 nutrient points overnight.

While being ridden, they lose an additional 1 nutrient point per minute.

Choosing the Right Feed

Feed should be selected based on workload and nutritional goals.

Horses in regular work often need intermediate or high-performance blends to offset greater nutrient loss. Horses in light or no work may do well on more moderate options such as growth, senior, or broodmare blends.

Supplemental Feeding

Hay is useful when a horse needs extra nutrients without becoming too full from concentrated feed.

When sugar is low but the horse is already near full, treats can help restore sugar more efficiently. Common examples include:

- Horse muffins
- Sugar cubes
- Peppermints

Welfare and Performance

Maintaining nutrition is essential for strong performance. Horses with poor welfare may suffer major stat reductions and become more difficult or expensive to manage.

Poor feeding can contribute to:

- Reduced performance
- Malnourishment
- Dehydration

Overfeeding

Nutrition must also be balanced carefully. Overfeeding can lead to unhealthy weight gain, which in turn can reduce performance.

Vitamin Deficiencies

Some horses may develop vitamin deficiencies at random. These usually require a course of vitamins purchased from the pharmacy.

🩺 Operations and Illness

Routine Care

Most horses commonly need recurring care such as:

- Teeth floating
- Hoof trimming
- Deworming

These procedures help maintain welfare and long term performance.

Optional Procedures

Some operations are not strictly required, but are recommended depending on the horse’s use and condition. These include:

- Bit fitting
- Saddle fitting
- Shoeing
- Gelding
- Microchipping
- Weight checks
- Genetic testing

Required Procedures

Some situations make veterinary or specialist intervention necessary. This is especially true for:

- Illness-related treatment
- Pregnancy
- Overdue bred horses
- Certain dental or hoof conditions

Examples of required procedures may include:

- Ultrasound
- C-section
- Tooth extraction
- Hoof cleaning
- Illness-specific cures

Medication

Some illnesses require treatment over multiple in game days. In these cases, players must buy the correct medicine from the pharmacy in Ventura and administer it in the same general way as feed.

The listed treatment days are not consecutive, so players do not need to log in on uninterrupted daily intervals to complete a course.