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There is no doubt a smaller breeding herd is easier to manage, the easiest way to keep a smaller breeding herd is be more strict on what you keep intact. So narrow your colour requirements and/or be more strict on quality. Such as only breed even generations, must be blue by gen3 etc, whatever you choose to do. If you are going to have various separate lines it's probably always going to be a bit harder, so set it up with different smaller pastures say so it's easy to just put a stallion in with his mares that match to him

At least with a premium upgrade show horses are easy to manage!

All that said, I keep pretty much everything, and if they pass SBA they usually stay intact. mares anyway. Stallions that aren't superior to either sire or my generation benchmark will get snipped at some stage.

I don't really keep separate lines, oh I have mushroom and chinchilla a bit separate at the moment, but both of them cross well into all the rest of my herd anyway of DP/KP/Silver. I only breed in pastures, except for the odd ET foal. So all my pastures are at least separated into generations, so if I want to bulk breed I can. Because I have so many horses though and can get a bit overwhelmed, I decided a few seasons ago not to worry about it and just breed the ones I wanted to. So I have a couple of empty smaller pastures and just pick and choose which ones I feel like breeding and put them in there. They are all named so I can easily pick a group of the same generation and era, and even some colour choices.

They don't show living in the pasture all of the time, but I still have plenty of show horses doing that for me so I just leave them in the pastures. Works for me anyway, I'm happy with my herd at the moment, and still get my little excitements with new foals LOL! And of course always add one or two new foundations stallions as new genes are released or come on sale