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You can put a tattoo on a foal, but it won't show up until you refresh the foal's page when they turn 2 years. At least that has been my experience with tattooing on foals.

My opinion is, I think once you buy the horse, you should be able to put your own tattoo on the horse you purchased. The previous owner has relinquished the horse to you. I just wouldn't name your tattoo, "Bred By You." Name it something like "Owned By You." I have had buyers of my horse's put their tattoo's on them. I don't mind. Someone else may have another opinion though.

You may want to PM the previous owner, just to make sure they are OK with it. But, they did sell it, and having the new owner tattoo it shouldn't matter.

Your welcome. :)

Speaking personally, I never check to see if a new owner has put tattoos on a horse I have sold or even if they have renamed it; that's not something I need to know.

I don't often remove tattoos that come on a horse I have bought, but I will add my own tattoos for generation or special genes that help me search horses when I'm breeding.

I personally never remove a tattoo that indicates a horse was bred by another player and I will not put my Ausmerican Bred tattoo (the daffodils) on a horse I haven't bred. But if I sell you a horse, unless we have specifically agreed to some sort of restrictions on that horse or its progeny, it's fair game for you to do as you please with it. Change its name, remove and add tattoos, spay, geld, sell, breed, sell the offspring....its your horse. I have too many horses of my own to worry about to be following around every one I've sold to see what you're doing with it!

The only tattoo I try to remember to remove when I sell a horse is the Available to Adopt tattoo. If I've adopted a horse out, I don't want it to still show up as adoptable in the search!