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Embryo creation is now entirely on the horse page breeding tab and I wanted to give a run-down of how it works now.

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Don't know how to see what straws/eggs/embryos you own? Click on "Owned Genetic Material" to see a full list. You can find this link in the breeding tab or in the navigation bar.

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Creating Embryos

There are three ways to create an embryo now:

Straw with a mare you own:
1) Navigate to the page of a stallion you want to make a straw from. If you own this stallion and don't have a straw yet you can collect one now. If you already own the straw you are ready for step 2.
---You must go to the stallion/gelding's page. You do not need to own the horse and it does not need to be living.
2) Select the "Create an Embryo" button.
3) Pick the mare you want to use from the drop-down.
4) Select which of the straws from this stallion you want to use and hit "Create This Embryo"
5) Your embryo will appear automatically in the "Embryos" bin at the bottom of the page.


A mare you own with a straw
1) Go to the page of the mare you wish to collect an embryo from.
2) Go to the Breeding tab.
3) Select the "Create an Embryo" button.
4) Pick the straw you want to use from the drop-down and hit "Create This Embryo"
5) Your embryo will appear automatically in the "Embryos" bin at the bottom of the page.


Bulk Combing Straws and Eggs Together
1) Navigate to the horse page of either the straw or egg.
---You must go to the horse page of either parent. You do not need to own the horses and they do not need to be living.
2) In the "Gametes" bin select "Embryos from Gametes"
3)At the top of the page you will see first every straw/egg you own from the horse page you are on. Check how many you want to create embryos from.
4)Below you will see a list of straw/eggs you can combine with the above gametes. Check all the ones you want to create embryos from.
5) Click "Create Embryos"
---Note you do not need to select the same number of straws and eggs. The game will automatically figure out how many pairs it can make and only create that many.
6) Your embryos will appear automatically in the "Embryos" bin at the bottom of the page.

Implanting Embryos

From the Surrogate Page
Note this is not a new method. I just think most people have never used it so did not know it was always an option.
1) Go to the page of the pair you want to carry the foal
2) Selected In-house Breeding from the breeding tab.
---Or "Breed to this Horse" if you want to use a mare up for public breeding for some reason.
3) Go to the "Horse Breeding: Embryos" bin and select the embryo you wish to use and the foal name.
4) Click "Create Foal"

From the Embryo parent page.
1) Go to the sire or dam of any embryo you own.
---See the instructions at the top of the post if you don't know how to view your embryos.
2) Navigate to Breeding tab and scroll down to the "Embryos" bin.
3) Click the Implant button of the embryo you wish to implant.
4) At the top of the page is listed every embryo you own, with the one you just selected listed first. Followed by related embryos then every other embryo you have.
5) Select a surrogate mare to carry the embryo. You can use mares with pasture bonus to get better foals, or university surrogates if you have no mares.
6) Name the foal and hit "Create You Foal"
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7) You will be immediately presented with the choice to select another embryo to implant. Related embryos to your prior one are listed next followed by all your other embryos. There is no need to swap pages once you have started the implantation process.


Please note that bulk implantation is not currently in the cards due to technical limitations.

Known Issues

1) Please be aware that If you are doing several steps in a row with no page loads you might have old messages like egg collection fees that stick around at the top of the page. Just letting you know I am aware of the issue, it does no harm and is not charging you (it is just the original message does not delete).
2) Right now toggling the straws/egg in the bulk embryo collection also toggles the gamete bin lower down. Similarly, this does no harm and is just a visual error.

I will work on getting both of these addressed as soon as I am able. They are just fiddly and I would rather get the update out than delay it another day over this.