Horse (GBC3)

Horses are a livestock animal that appear in ''Harvest Moon GBC 3.

Horses can be purchased from the Farmer's Union after the player has six full plots of grass in the yard. While purchasing, the player can choose between males or females, both of which can be entered into contests and the player can ride them around the farm. They will live in the first barn with a max of eight horses - or four to each room.

Stages
Foal Foals are horses who have not yet fully matured and cannot be ridden, showed or sold. However, with proper love and care, they will fully mature into an adult. All horses bought from the Farmer's Market or bred from two horses are at this stage.

It takes 25 days a foal to fully mature into a horse.

Adult Horse Mature horses can be ridden around the farm after the player purchases a saddle - but not taken off of your property. Horses may also be entered into the semi-annual horse race - with males going into the derby and females going to the filly race. Their performance is increased based on your affection level with the horse and can be viewed by purchasing the report from Lyla. It should also be noted that this is permanent and you will not get your horses back after the race so don't send off your favorites!

Any adult horse can be sold for 5000G to the farmer's union.

Pregnant Horse A healthy adult male and female horse can be paired in a breeding pen to impregnate the female - they will remain in the pen for a day and, if not bred, will be in a bad mood.

Once pregnant, a female will not be able to be ridden, entered into races, or be sold. They must be cared for as normal for (?) days until the foal is born.

Care
In order to keep any horse happy and healthy, they require careful attention. They must be fed by placing fodder in the feeders every day. They can also be let outside into the pastures by talking to them and will eat mature grass if left outside overnight - however, you need to own a dog and the weather must be sunny the next day, or the horse will become unhappy.

If horses are not fed for four days they will grow ill and will require medicine. If you do not treat them, they will die three days later from the illness.