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Can never snip enough.

I usually go though and let the game testing snip my foals then I go though and snip the inconsistent and non-Grullo foals.

Next I compare the boys to their sires (and try to catch and snip the lower papered ones before I do) any AGA or worse get snipped. Then I pick my top 3 from each sire and snip the rest. Finally I sort through how many studs I need to cover each group of mares I’m breeding in each generation and then go through and snip any of age studs that weren’t needed. Every few months I go through and pick new favourites from my favourites.

ETA: the last time I tracked and remember the results I was at a 1:15 intact to snipped ratio

There's a leopard filly I regret spaying over on HJ1. I've kind of decided that roan and dun apps are my thing over there, but I keep going back and forth on whether I like leopard apps. But she was pretty cute and was decently papered.

@Timelessstars the goals you get from your pasture if your mares have their full bonus are most likely to be your best foals. I take my pasture and BA and then paper all of my horses that pass any yellows in second gen get sniped as do the Cs then I go through and get rid of any that I don’t care for so roans and W2 and some plain bays and chestnuts then I only have a few colts left and a decent amount of girls as I’m more lenient with them this season I ended up with one boy for G2, G3, G4 and G5 for boys and then 33 girls. I pt all of my spays and keep any that are over 10.5 and the rest go into auction. Then I hand breed

Just bred 78 3g foals and ended up with 8 intact fillies. I'm fine with that, the 3gs are my show ponies I guess, but still. My uneven horses give far more tact's with less foals than my even horses. XD

I always come out with too many intacts no matter how hard I try to be vicious about culling. Everyone is run through strict breeding advice and I've started to be a little more strict about PT scores now as well... My stud colts are usually easy enough, I have some great second gen stallions that I love and are doing well for me so, if the new ones don't have the genes/paper to stand up to my current faves, they get the snip. My issue comes with the fillies since there is really no good way to test them, you can't compare them to anything and so you really just need to wait until they are breedable and see how they do. So I tend to overkeep fillies and then try and cull the older ones that are not producing when the time comes. I also have too many lines and so it's easy to look at a horse and go 'oh I'll just put it in this line instead of snipping it'. lol