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So i have been going through the intact mares in my barns (not pastures) and doing a lot of snipping! I just want to say, I started with 52 pages of mares and I am currently at 15 pages left! Six of those pages so far are keepers, but I might even cull those ones down farther as I tighten up my lines :) I wish I could buy about a million pastures! I have so many lines I want to work on but no space to do so! But I am switching my old lined lines (3G+) to my newer ones so that's why so many mares are being snipped.

-I decided that my main focus is going to be Mushroom and Chinchilla with Snowflake and KP, as well as some ice 9 thrown in here and there. Those will be my two main lines. (I really hope we get a Chinchilla Breeders Club!)
-My next line is going to be my Ice 10/Wrong Warp/Thunderstruck line. Since i don't have the means to accomplish this at second gen, i want to get a good stud with all three genes by 3rd gen and breed the whole pattern into 4th gen.
-Newest side line is going to be Nacre/Watercolor/Ice 9 grays. This will be similar to the above line in which it will take several generations to accomplish. I am starting with a 60 acre pasture full of gray foundation mares and a homozygous Nacre stud. From there, the resulting foals will be bred to either a Watercolor or Ice 9 stud. So by 3rd gen i should have two of the three genes. Then the 3rd gen foals will be bred to a stud that has whatever gene i didn't introduce in the previous generation.
-Satin is going to be distributed throughout the lines as well as all my ice genes
-Axiom and Nexus will just be side bonus lines, not as important as my other ones, until i can afford pastures.
-Every other closed gene i haven't mentioned will be mixed in where i deem necessary or desired.

I just feel so accomplished getting all this stuff done and organized :) I can't wait til I have everything sorted just how I like it!