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Geld all the things!

No but seriously, stallions you have never bred? Geld. Stallions that still have their foal photos? Geld. Stallions that have the same paper, genes, generation, and similar PT? Keep 2, geld the rest. Bootstrap stallions, keep the highest PT and the ones that test superior to everyone else, snip the rest. SBA on everything that isn’t bootstrap bred (if it’s not already been done). Any colts that paper equal to their sires (without reasonable exceptions, testing superior while being an A out of an A is an exception) should be gelded if you have a surplus (again, keep the highest PT with the most desirable genes).

Yep like fallen says geld all the things.

Write down your breeding goal then narrow it down.

-For me I breed grullo with patterns (hj1 does plaid, axiom and nexus, hj2 Ice)

-Narrowing it down all intact breeding horses must be SBA, consistent and gene tested.

I go to the search page clear the spay and gelding and and sort by consistency and jump to the last page and geld/spay them all until I come back to consistent horses. Change the sort to not like Grullo in the colour field and geld the whole list that pops up. Mares then get prefixes and sorted into breeding barns

- I narrowed my breeding goal down to all of the colts must be EE aa DD which is the base for Grullo.

By now I have narrowed my studs down by all the obvious points (other than papers but I do that last to reduce costs) I go sort by stallion and must have e and geld the whole list. Next must have d and geld the list.

-To narrow my breeding goal down more all studs must be superior to sire and Paper in the top 2 paper levels of its generation.

Next I paper every one and then go through each of my stallions (sort by name on the search) and opened up the family tab sort by papers and geld the lower paper level foals.

I also geld any missing the stallions special genes by changing the sort to must not have ___ (plaid, axiom, nexus, ice or kit for my KP studs)

Then I open the remainders and comparison test snipping any AGA and adding my prefixes to the superiors. When I’ve gone through all that stallions foals I do another overlook search and narrow the list down to 3. Horses with homo genes are kept over het, single kit horses get snipped. If all things equal or if I’m in a hurry the top 3 PT get kept and snip the rest.

Once I’ve gone through each studs foals a search of my intact horses will all have prefixes and then I run a search for each generation.

I go through and snip any studs with low papers (most generations only have 2 of the highest papers kept until the majority (+60%) of the studs are papering the higher paper then the lower level gets snipped from that generation)

I go through each of my lines and try to narrow the studs down to 3. Sort must have ___ (plaid, axiom (each colour individually), nexus or ice (or Must have kp in the name for my KP studs)

I compare the genetics and again if a stud is homo for genes or has a big variety to choose from he gets to stay over a plain grullo. KP gets preference over kp. Lower paper levels get snipped.

I also have a line without kp or fantasy genes to use as fillers until the fancy genes fill up the pastures so I just mark the sort must not have any of the fantasy genes and go through and narrow those studs down to 3 too. (Again if I’m in a hurry or feeling overwhelmed too 3 PT works for me)

When I’m feeling particularly snippy I empty my pastures and reload them up and any stud that is of breeding age and not in a pasture gets snipped. Most of my generations have multiple stud slots in the pastures so he was passed over by another stud for some reason or another multiple times.

Good bye

It takes me a really long time to go through my foals on HJ1 but at 7-900 Foals per month and limited internet there’s usually a few months backlog. I’m also working on comparison testing all my mares.

But on HJ2 until recently I only had my primary pasture so there’s only about 500 to go through at the moment and they get zipped through in no time.

I try to do a lot of the testing and snipping without really looking at the horses so that ooh thats to pretty to geld doesn’t factor in too often.

*pokes membership status* Use the force wisely this month! ;) I suggest not SBA your Joey & Halloween lines just yet, thin out the rest first.

I am a cold hearted cull-er. Everything goes through SBA, and I abide by that decision. I have one goal: Blinged out black livers with really great PT scores.

Culling is a serious test of your resolve!

Thank you all. Thanks Haltanny I wasn't expecting that. Thank you so much.
Thanks everyone seeing how you all do your lines gives me hope of being able to get my ponies where I need to be. You all give me hope and for that I want to thanks.