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Thursday, November 5th

  • Feature
    • EPDs Calving ease EPDs. Registered cattle now carry CED (how easily their calves are born) and CEM (how easily their daughters calve) under BW in the Registration card, in percentage points of unassisted first-calf-heifer births, higher is better. Both come from the calvings recorded in the game and publish breed by breed as records build up, every Sunday.
    • Shows EPDs now count in bull classes. A bull whose EPDs rank in the top 20% of his breed picks up a little with the judge; bottom 40% costs him a little, bottom 20% more. Each published EPD (BW, CED, CEM) counts on its own; a bull with no EPDs is judged on his looks alone, as before.
  • Updated
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Phoenix National — runs the 31st of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Arizona. Entry fee 10 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: San Angelo — runs the 5th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: San Antonio — runs the 6th of each month at 7:00 PM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Odessa — runs the 1st of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Kansas City — runs the 26th of each month at 1:00 AM CT. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Houston — runs the 7th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Fort Worth — runs the 4th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Austin — runs the 8th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Western National — runs the 3rd of each month at 1:00 PM CT. Entry fee 5 credits.

Wednesday, November 4th

  • Feature
    • Ranch Leases and coin packs are here. Every ranch runs 20 head free; lease pasture for 100, 250 or 500 head from the new Lease page, or pick up a coin pack under Coins.
  • Updated
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Austin — runs the 8th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Fort Worth — runs the 4th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Houston — runs the 7th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Kansas City — runs the 26th of each month at 1:00 AM CT. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Odessa — runs the 1st of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Phoenix National — runs the 31st of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Arizona. Entry fee 10 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: San Angelo — runs the 5th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Western National — runs the 3rd of each month at 1:00 PM CT. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: San Antonio — runs the 6th of each month at 7:00 PM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: San Antonio — runs the 6th of each month at 7:00 PM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Western National — runs the 3rd of each month at 1:00 PM CT. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Western National — runs the 3rd of each month at 1:00 PM CT. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Austin — runs the 8th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Austin — runs the 8th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: San Angelo — runs the 5th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: San Angelo — runs the 5th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Shows Steer breeds are limited to breaking into three weight division. Catch All/Crossbred classes can breakup in to 9.

Tuesday, November 3rd

  • Fixed
    • Registration Limousin — Fixed a bug where animals that didn’t qualify for Lim-Flex were also blocked from Percentage Limousin. Percentage Limousin is now offered to any animal 12%+ Limousin out of a registered Limousin parent.
    • Registration Red Angus — Registration percentage now counts Angus and Red Angus blood together, as the RAAA does. An Angus × Red Angus calf papers at 100% Angus genetics; category is determined by color and horn status.
  • Added
    • Shows Ranking points: every judged result now earns ranking points on the TJLA scale — 5 points for every other player's animal you beat in the class, breed and division champions topped up to the best class winner plus a bonus, and Grand / Reserve Grand bonuses. Majors count double, fairs and regional shows ×1.25, jackpots ×1. Points show on the results page; the ranking boards are coming next.

Friday, October 30th

  • Updated
    • Cattle Selling to the Seedstock Buyer at auction is unchanged — that’s a real sale, and the buyer takes the animal.
    • Cattle Pedigrees, papers, show results, and any semen or embryos you already collected are unaffected. Semen from a bull that has died is still yours to use or sell.
    • Cattle A deceased animal’s page keeps its banner, but the owner tools (naming, breeding, listing, moving, castration, feed program) are gone.
    • Cattle The Previous / Next arrows on a cattle page skip anything that has left the game, so you only step through your living herd.
    • Cattle Deceased and retired animals no longer appear in your herd, pastures, show entry lists, or herd counts.
  • Added
    • Forum Animal cards in posts. Link to an animal in a post — paste its page URL or just /Cattle/1234 — and a card for that animal appears under your post: picture, name, breed, sex, age, weight, color, sire and dam, show record, and current owner. Click the card to open the animal. Up to five animals per post. Cards always show the animal's current details, so they stay accurate if it's sold or renamed, and they work on older posts too.
  • Fixed
    • Registration Maine-Angus eligible cattle must be registered as Maine-Angus and not Maintainer

Wednesday, October 28th

  • Feature
    • Cattle Young cattle now look young. Newborn calves show a baby-calf picture and calves under about nine game months show a weaning-age (400-600 lb) picture before growing into their adult artwork. Pictures fill in automatically as new breed and color combinations are born.
  • New
    • Show String Hair work, clipping & fitting and slick shearing. Show-string cattle can be worked, clipped and fitted or slick shorn every day — 10 free tasks a day, then coins. The traits you see on every page and the judges' placings now reflect the animal as it stands, hair and all. Some steer shows require slick-shorn cattle. Work the whole string from the new Show String page.

Monday, October 26th

  • Feature
    • Cattle Cull is now Send to Town. Sell any animal to the feeder-calf buyers and packers for coins by the pound — CAB steers bring the most, packer cows the least, and finishing a steer on feed is what gets it the top price. The market has a monthly pool that refills daily, so flooding it drops the price; your own price slides from 105% on your first head of the month toward 5%. See the Town board for today's prices and the help topic.
    • Cattle Cull is now Send to Town. Sell any animal to the feeder-calf buyers and packers for coins by the pound — CAB steers bring the most, packer cows the least, and finishing a steer on feed is what gets it the top price. The market has a monthly pool that refills daily, so flooding it drops the price; your own price slides from 105% on your first head of the month toward 5%. See the Town board for today's prices and the help topic.
  • Added
    • Cattle Show string. From an animal's page, add it to your show string to give it its own ration (up to a full show ration), a hair program, and a fitting before a show. A fitting is charged when you do it and fades over a few days, so fit the day before the show. Take an animal out of the string and it eats with its pasture again.
    • Cattle New heritable trait: Hair Growth, under Breed Character on the cattle page. It sets how much show hair an animal can grow and how fast it comes. It is inherited like every other trait — hairy sires throw hairy calves — so breed for it.
    • Economy Feed bills come out nightly, per head, for anything on a paid ration, in the show string or on a hair program, priced by the game month. If a bill can''t be paid, that animal's programs drop back to the free ones until you top up and set them again.
    • Help New help article: Steer Classification. It covers how the check-in classifier works, what happens when a steer classes out, borderline steers, and the standard for every breed and color division.
    • Pastures Every pasture now has a ration, set from the pasture's edit form: grass only, maintenance, grower or finishing. Grass and maintenance are free. Grower and finishing cost coins per head and put flesh on everything in the pasture. Cattle not in a pasture eat maintenance.
  • Updated
    • Shows Brahman-cross steers: the minimum hump (Crest) a steer needs to avoid disqualification from the Brahman division now varies between 40 and 45 each time it is classified, like a different classifier at every show. A steer in that range is borderline and can class in at one show and out at the next. Bulls and females in Brahman divisions keep the fixed cutoff of 50.
  • Changed
    • Shows Judges and the Seedstock Buyer now see an animal as it is presented, not only as it is bred: flesh, hair and fit each add to what the judge sees in the ring. How an animal was presented is recorded on its show entry.
    • Shows Judging now rewards an ideal type, not just more of everything. Muscle, condition, capacity and frame are scored against what the ring wants for steers, heifers and bulls, so an over-muscled or over-conditioned animal gets marked down like a light one. Every judge leans a little differently from the ring's ideal, and the ideal itself drifts slowly from year to year. Frame is now judged.

Sunday, October 25th

  • Reset
    • Game The game has been reset. All cattle, pregnancies, semen, auctions, show entries, transactions, and balances have been wiped. Everyone starts fresh with $10,000.
    • Game The game has been reset. All cattle, pregnancies, semen, auctions, show entries, transactions, and balances have been wiped. Everyone starts fresh with $10,000.

Wednesday, October 21st

  • Updated
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Wyoming Fair — runs the 19th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Wyoming. Entry fee 5 credits.
  • Added
    • Show Schedule New recurring show: Powder River Classic — runs the 13th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Wyoming. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule New recurring show: Wyoming Fair — runs the 19th of each month at 1:00 AM CT. Entry fee 5 credits.

Tuesday, October 20th

  • Updated
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Kansas City — runs the 26th of each month at 1:00 AM CT. Entry fee 5 credits.

Friday, October 16th

  • Updated
    • Breeding Breeding history tab with all relevant info include offspring
  • Added
    • Cattle American character on the info card
    • Images CDN and resizing to make images load significantly faster
    • Layout Sidebar toggle

Tuesday, October 13th

  • Feature
    • Breeding Calving difficulty (dystocia). Big calves, first-calf heifers and bad presentations can now need help at calving. When a cow is in trouble you get an alert and a limited time to pull the calf yourself or call the vet — leave her too long and the calf, and sometimes the cow, pays for it. Set your away plan under Account Settings ? Calving. Every calving now records a calving-ease score.
  • Updated
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: 8 PM Jackpot — runs daily (Mon–Sat) at 8:00 PM CT. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule Recurring show updated: Noon Jackpot — runs daily (Mon–Sat) at 12:00 PM CT. Entry fee 1 credits.

Monday, October 12th

  • Feature
    • Breeding Embryo transfer overhaul: flush a donor to a semen lot for a batch of graded embryos, store them in your tank, implant several at once (conception is rolled, not guaranteed), biopsy for sex and defects, and buy, sell, gift or private-list embryos on the new Embryo Market.
  • Added
    • Show Schedule New recurring show: Nebraska Classic — runs the 5th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Nebraska. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule New recurring show: The Island Show — runs the 21st of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Nebraska. Entry fee 5 credits.
    • Show Schedule New recurring show: The Island Show — runs the 23rd of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Nebraska. Entry fee 5 credits.

Sunday, October 11th

  • Added
    • Cattle Registered cattle now show an EPD card on their page with the BW EPD, accuracy, and where they rank in the breed.
    • Genetics EPDs are recalculated every Sunday. Cattle registered during the week get an interim EPD right away.
    • Genetics Starter cattle begin at their breed's average with no accuracy. They earn an EPD through the calves they produce.
    • Genetics EPDs are breed by breed and only for registered cattle. A registry gets EPDs once it has 100 registered head that were born in the game with a recorded birth weight and a known sire and dam.
    • Genetics Every EPD comes with an accuracy from 0 to 1. Young cattle start low and their EPD can move; a sire with many recorded calves ends up with a number you can rely on.
    • Genetics EPDs are here, starting with birth weight. A BW EPD predicts how much heavier or lighter an animal's calves will be at birth than the breed average, in pounds. They are calculated only from records made in the game: birth weights, calf sex, sire, dam, and the cow that carried the calf.
  • Updated
    • Forum Thread pages have a new look. Each post is its own card with the author, post number and a permanent link; quoting pulls in a short excerpt, Copy link confirms itself, and the reply box is always open at the bottom with your post icon and draft status. Polls show results as bars, and a single-choice poll records your vote as soon as you pick.
    • Forum Forum category pages have a new look. Each thread now shows its type, who started it and when, and who replied last — pinned threads sit in their own section, long threads get page links, and a New button jumps you straight to the first post you haven''t read. Starting a thread is cleaner too: pick the type from a card grid, and the subject line shows a character count.
  • Changed
    • Help New look for the Help Center: search with category filters, featured articles up top, and a cleaner article page with an "On this page" outline, related links, and a Was-this-helpful vote you can change.

Saturday, October 10th

  • Update
    • Chat Chat has a new look: flat message rows with hover actions, day dividers, a formatting bar in the composer, and a grouped member list. Dark mode now follows the site theme colors.
  • Added
    • Forum New look for the forum home page: general discussion forums and breed forums now have their own sections, with a bigger search bar, ranked Trending threads, and Latest Posts previews.

Wednesday, October 7th

  • Improved
    • Shows Show results now read as one sub show > division > breed tree, with each level''s champions listed under its heading.