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You only had two stars and the rest A/blue, so I'm not surprised they were all altered. Probably just bad luck this season, and it looks like there's only 13 foals so not really a whole lot to pull from there. I'd suggest working on getting your numbers up for 4G, which means just increasing the size of your "pyramid". It gets harder and harder to get intacts the higher up the line you go, so just make sure you're maxing your pasture bonus and getting more total to work with, and if you keep going seasons without getting any intacts, then maybe consider tightening your criteria for lower gens and possibly loosening it a bit for the higher ones.

I seriously cut back my total number of 1st and 2nd Generation breeding horses a couple of seasons ago, and it had a major effect on my higher gens. I had hoped that the lower gens I kept were of good enough quality that I could get higher gens with decent quality as well. It didn't work! I've since decided to go back to filling my primary pastures with foundation mares, and 'widening' the base of my pyramid. My head knew that it is all about numbers and increasing chances of foals passing, but my heart forgot that part!

I have high hopes for Ruby. She is everything I wanted. I just need to look at my gens better maybe.

So even still, sorting G3s is kind of a pain, because I ONLY keep Superior To Parent breeding stock. Once SBA has been done, I literally have to test each one who passed SBA against their parent to ensure a jump in paper quality.

I also watch AFPT on the mares to keep numbers down, too. If theirs isnt above their own, they're culled off. But that's me, and I LOVE seeing 12+ PT at G4.

It is also harder to end up with intacts the further into the gens you dip into. Like someone said above... it is kind of a pyramid. No, seriously.

In my pastures, this may not be completely accurate due to me altering all Red/B paper G2 foals immediately, and all Blue/A paper G4s foals immediately... but this season, my mature mares:
100 Foundies resulted in 21 Blue/A (21%), I kept 9 (9%).
88 G2s resulted in 45 intacts (51%), I kept 10 (11%).
84 G3s resulted in 6 intacts (7%), I kept 5 (6%).
28 G4s resulted in 9 intacts (32%), I kept 1 (11%).
18 G5s resulted in 6 intacts (33%), I kept 3 (17%).
3 G6s resulted in 0 intacts (0%), I kept 0 (0%).
19 Bootstrap resulted in 4 intacts (21%), I kept 3 (16%).

I don’t have quite the same numbers at my fingertips that Ruby Jo has, but these are my breakdowns of mares in pastures just for my Rainbow Riot line through the generations. In most cases I have at least some replacement fillies in a barn, but this will be all my breeding age mares for the line:

Foundation pasture: 100 mares, all ExPerf or ExPro
Gen 2: 100 mares, all Blue papered
Gen 3: 76 mares, all Blue papered and AGA benchmark
Gen 4: 43 mares, all Gold papered and sup to G3 benchmark
Gen 5: no longer in their own pasture but in with all my fantasy lines. 88 mares in that pasture over 3 fantasy lines, so theoretically about 30 Rainbow Riot mares, all sup to dam
Gen 6: now all lines are in one pasture, so 5 lines together. 41, so about 8 Rainbow Riot mares, all sup to dam
Gen 7: 8 total mares, so 1 or 2 Rainbow Riot. I have been breeding my gen 7s for 3 months now. I JUST got my first sup to dam gen 8 filly this season, my very first even bred gen 8 in real life years. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten up this high in all my years of playing as I’ve always gotten frustrated with the diminishing returns.

Don’t feel bad or frustrated. It’s hard breeding up the generations and even harder if you’re trying to do it with specific lines. The only reason I have done as well as I have is because I own a ton of pastures, which I slowly invested in over my first few years of playing. It seems like there were fewer and less common releases of new paid Fantasy genes back then, which meant when Ammit had a sale it was easy to prioritize buying a pasture or two. Pasture bonus definitely seems to be more and more important the further up you breed, so it may mean you need to reorganize if you don’t have many pastures.