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Biggest cull I ever did ended up with me keeping only a handful of horses. :) The rest went to auction. Best decision ever, because I forced myself to get rid of horses that just were not performing as well as get rid of patterns and colors I did not want because I breed to a real-life horse breed so I try to keep it as close to natural as possible.

I’m like bourbon and it may be a few months before I go through and cull. I also rarely cull horses out of my barn usually just geld or spay all the things.

Currently I have 11 pages of horses to sort through and cull from my breeding stock and add prefixes to.

I just finished going through all my non prefixed horses on HJ1 (I had up to 6year olds and have been pasture breeding 900ish foals each season and just running SBA, PT and gene tests on them) and on Saturday I went through the last 19 pages of horses and altered at least 300 (may not have all been from the initial 19 pages)

When I cull I pull up a search page of my unnamed horses and cull off the the inconsistent or non grullo. Then when I go through the remaining foals I open the sires page instead of the foal. I then sort all of his foals by his requirements and go through and cull any that don’t fit (if he has a fantasy gene the foal must inherit it to remain intact, the colts all need to be EE DD, the KP lined colts must have 2 kit genes etc.) then I add prefixes to the mares then sort all his colts by paper level and cull any low papers, then I comparison test the rest and cull any AGA add prefixes to the superiors.

When I catch up I move on to the next server and cull there. When I’ve done the initial culling on both sides I will go through again and trim down each generations studs further and on HJ1 I will be starting to cull my lower generation mares as they each have several pastures and are still overflowing while my higher gens are stuffed into small singular pastures and I’m starting to get more of the higher gens.

ETA: I spent 650k on comparison testing alone on Saturday not counting the papering. I had to wait until after roll over to get my show bonus to finish testing the last colt of the bunch lmao

I did a huge cull when Ammit did a one time offer to pay 10,000 for every yummed horse! I would have culled at least 1000, if not 1000's! Since then I rarely get rid of anything LOL, they just go into the show barns if no good for anything else