Though they take 30 days like Apples - they are NOT a permanent crop. You must buy new cows each time after Harvest.

These are ShorahNagi's Yeilds from the most recent harvest:

*Both Meadows had Longhorn Cows

27500 x Leather from one of your meadows. (25 acres, no feed trough)
35750 x Leather from one of your meadows. (25 acres, feed trough)

ShorahNagi has no idea if having a Rain effects this number

Taken from the Preprod Change Log: FROM Nagi (cant remember name )in international server

Feeding your horse

Feeding your horse is done using only the feed action. This action will give more energy than before.

The prestige value of the meadows owned by the equestrian center in which your horse is boarded gives you a share of fodder for free. If fodder is provided by the equestrian center, the fodder taken from the meadows will not be taken from storage.

Seasons also define how much free fodder you can get: for instance, you will receive more fodder for free in the spring than in the winter.

The food sliders are the only method available now, so that you can see how much food will be taken from your inventory and how much will be provided by the equestrian center, be it from meadows or from storage.

Ow's reply to clear up some confusion as players could not quite tell if they were using Free fodder (that provided by EC meadows and/or EC stock) or their own inventory) - and also as to why Feeding will now be done with Slider only. This is Ow's reply (complete with pictures):

So to clarify things a little

When the slider is in blue it's free.



Sometimes the slider can be totally blue when the EC your horse is in is offering the full monty and the meadows are also giving a large amount.



Concerning the drop down, i can't remember the precise figures but the majority of players use the slider and a small percentage use the drop down.
(found old statistics => 83% of players were using the slider in January)
The drop downs are slowly fading out of use because they require more actions than the slider and aren't as easy to use on mobile platforms.
For instance players using a tablet will have less trouble with the slider than with the drop down feature.

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I have also heard that the Draft horses are being introduced in May? Not sure though

ive also heard that there will be two types of Draft Horses, and they are like the donkeys, they can only breed 3 times
No one will have pictures for a while since they might be coming out in may which is 3 months away april might be Draft Horse Spoiler month

Western ECs have a bit of an extra perk because when they lose their Calves at the end of the month for cutting comps. - they will earn back some leather.

And it has been confirmed by the Admins - Rain has no effect on Leather Production (So you'll get the same amount of Leather with or without her)

-Repairing your boxes (of course)
-Producing a lot of mash
-Producing a lot of fertilizer
-Buying some tack ahead of time
-Buying anything else you might need ahead of time
-Saving passes and equus
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Craft 100 x Mash; 500 Wheat bran, 200 Apple, 100 Flax seeds; Crafting duration: 8 hours

Craft 50 x 1* fertilizer; 50 Droppings; Crafting duration: 8 hours
Craft 50 x 2** fertilizer; 100 Droppings; Crafting duration: 12 hours
Craft 50 x Manure; 150 Droppings, 50 Straw; Crafting duration: 16 hours

Craft 5 x 1* Classical Bridle; 5 Iron, 45 Leather; Crafting duration: 4 hours
Craft 5 x 2** Classical Bridle; 10 Iron, 90 Leather; Crafting duration: 8 hours
Craft 5 x 3*** Classical Bridle; 40 Iron, 360 Leather; Crafting duration: 12 hours
Craft 5 x 1* Western Bridle; 5 Iron, 45 Leather; Crafting duration: 4 hours
Craft 5 x 2** Western Bridle; 10 Iron, 90 Leather; Crafting duration: 8 hours
Craft 5 x 3*** Western Bridle; 40 Iron, 360 Leather; Crafting duration: 12 hours

Craft 5 x 1* Classical/Western Saddle; 10 Iron, 115 Leather; Crafting duration: 4 hours
Craft 5 x 2** Classical/Western Saddle; 20 Iron, 230 Leather; Crafting duration: 8 hours
Craft 5 x 3*** Classical/Western Saddle; 80 Iron, 920 Leather; Crafting duration: 12 hours

Craft 5 x 1* Classical/Western Saddle Cloth; 10 Flax; Crafting duration: 4 hours

Craft 5 x 1* Polo Wraps; 5 Flax; Crafting duration: 2 hours
Craft 5 x 1* Ear Bonnet; 5 Flax; Crafting duration: 2 hours

Craft 5 x Bell boots; 1250 Leather; Crafting duration: 24 hours
Craft 5 x Whip; 2500 Leather; Crafting duration: 24 hours
Craft 5 x Spurs; 3750 Iron; Crafting duration: 24 hours
Craft 5 x Lunge; 6250 Leather; Crafting duration: 24 hours
Craft 5 x Horseshoe Studs; 8750 Iron; Crafting duration: 24 hours

Craft 1 x Box 1*; 25 Wood, 25 Sand; Crafting duration: 12 hours
Craft 1 x Box 2**; 500 Wood, 500 Sand; Crafting duration: 24 hours
Craft 1 x Box 3***; 2500 Wood, 2500 Sand; Crafting duration: 48 hours

Craft 1 x Medium greenhouse; 250 Wood, 250 Sand; Crafting duration: 24 hours

Craft 1 x Small workshop; 250 Wood, 250 Sand; Crafting duration: 24 hours
Craft 1 x Medium workshop; 1250 Wood, 1250 Sand; Crafting duration: 48 hours
Craft 1 x Large workshop; 3750 Wood, 3750 Sand; Crafting duration: 72 hours

Craft 1 x Shower; 2500 Iron; Crafting duration: 12 hours

Craft 1 x Tractor; 2500 Iron; Crafting duration: 12 hours

if this information is correct (and not just something temporarily made available for the players on test server) then they will be 10e each, so crafting something like a 3* box will cost 50,000e