When you go to the homepage, there's a link to the 'Upcoming' stuff within the news box on the top left.

I think everyone is just overreacting about killing cows for leather. I understand this is supposed to be a kid friendly game, but hey, I'm under 16 and I OWN cows and I still don't care that we might have to kill them for leather,

Animals are killed/die all the time for certain things, it's a part of life and kids will have to learn it at sometime in their lives.

And hey, kid learn a lot worse at a younger age these days then killing cow/livestock, if they are in a public school. we learn so much worse, so this is a minor, I mean minor thing.

Does anyone know if we will still have any wandering horses, like in promos and whatnot?

Ugg, it's just a game! Why do you even care so much?!?!?!

If Howrse choose to do another Wanderer promotion, then yes we could earn them again

Is there going to be a halloween promo

We will have to wait and see !

On the cow situation, I'm actually just interested in how it will work at this point, since we really don't know.
I don't think that people are overreacting when they talk about the idea of breeding cows for production of leather in terms of whether it is appropriate for the younger range of audience in the game, or are in general uncomfortable with the idea. It is just a game, but one where possibly the majority of users care to some degree about the welfare of animals (since it's about raising animals).
Personally, I don't have a problem with animals being used for production of certain things in the way that cattle are used to produce meat, etc. I do however care greatly about how they are treated while alive, right up until the end (including the way it ends), which is where the problems are in many industries in probably most countries if not all.

Due to people's mixed opinions on the topic I feel like it should be an optional part of the game, and probably will be. So you will be able to still buy tack from the shop if you choose not to breed cows.
Personally, I think "harvesting" wings from a pegasus for an event task seems worse than this cow and leather idea.

I'm also excited to see how "breeding" cows will work and how in-depth it will be, and what they will look like

I have a suggestion, how about like the Safe Haven, we could have another name for cows where they become leatherless and go to a Safe Haven

Possibly, except that when you think about how leather is made, a "leatherless" cow isn't the most pleasant idea. I do agree though that they should make it as nice and child-friendly as possible

That though is why maybe it shouldn't be so in-depth, like with the horses. So it's just like: "you had a cow, now you have leather", rather than worrying too much about what happens to them in between.

I agree.

After all, we are not going in-depth with where the foals come from either. Or what happens with the horses after they died.

Exactly
Probably the less interaction there is with the cows themselves, the better

I saw this on the other forum (October's New Features)

Cow seeds!

So we will be growing cows, cool!!!

Wow cow seeds! I love them!

My guess if that cow breeding and the likes wont be in depth, more just like a button on a page somewhere.

Same, maybe similar to growing crops at an EC. Just the term "breeding" makes it sound more like what we do with the horses haha, to me at least.

Haha, Ow is hilarious

(this was from another forum and thought I would like to share it. Go to the October Changes forum to see more

Personally, I think we should have rainbow cow seeds.

Thats what I said on the other forum!

Because it states they go to 'heaven',<enough already. stop arguing about something that hasn't even arrived yet>

That's cool that we had the same idea....Now what about gold and silver spotted cow seeds!!

Well, if it becomes COw and not HOwrse, don't say I didn't warn you....

Adios...for now.

haha, I didn't realize that! COw is cool.