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I have 7 lines, 8 if you count my bootstraps!

The overarching theme for all of them is the heaviest bone I can get but each line does have its own thing as well.

Valentine Chocolates is black based chocolates with satin, KP2, and lace
Wildlife is Onyx with DP, Tiger Eye, and sooty+. I originally had all the 3 color bases in there but am culling to just liver reds now
Wacky Wednesday Unicorns are my nacre, thunderstruck, warp, and various ices

and so on.

Maybe because you are going tall and heavy with the drafts, you could go short and light with the riding ponies!

Too many! I used to have 15 but I have cut back to 9, 10 if you count bootstrap. Having that many lines may not work for most barns but since I am a big player with lots of barns and a big daily bonus I can keep them up. Plus I don't have hundreds of mare's per stallion. I have between 15-40 mares for each line per generation so I get around 5 intact/keepable foals per line/gen each season.

1. Chinchilla- preferably silver black or champagne. I am slowly introducing ice and onyx as well.
2. Ice 13- hom sooty, introducing nexus
3. Livers and chocolate palomino- preferably hom DP with any fun white spotting gene.
4. Ice 14- hom sooty with silver and some appaloosa
5. Macciato- hom sooty, satin and white spotting are a big plus
6. Watercolor/plaid/ice 10/ice 6- kind of a catch all for any fantasy genes that looks good with watercolor,sooty plus if I can get it too
7. Snowflake KP- striving for hom snowflake and hom KP with satin and sooty plus
8. Wild bay- DP, sooty plus, and sabino
9. White 8/m- I love the combo of these two genes plus pearl and sooty plus
10. Bootstrap- I just recently stated so it's in its natural y stage but I'm leaning toward anything with satin.

I have 5, technically. My bootstrap, liver, Exceptionally Perfect, and ND1 lines are all very active. I breed for heavy and tall in them, so there are a lot of cull factors (all but bootstrap must pass SBA/must be above 3.0 bone, must be above 16.5hh, and my bootstraps have to be star* or gold* with a PT if 12.2+). It’s slow going, but very rewarding. Once I have achieved a consistent liver line (very large, very dark) I plan to merge it with my ND1 line.

I also have my goofy pasture, where I really just breed for leopard appaloosas and speld them all for my show barns. I love the spots, but don’t want to designate too much space to them, so it’s a 30ac pasture (I aim for a 1:7 breeder:show ratio, so keeping my breeding numbers down is necessary).

I have a few that I just piddle around with, no serious pastures or anything. I just kinda breed them when I feel like it, which is why those lines are mostly only up to a third generation right now.

I have 6 main lines that I actively breed every season and each one has at least one pasture. I am getting stricter with my criteria for each line, but right now I'm still sorting mares--so I end up with quite a few foals.

7 even bred lines, one bootstrap line and I’m splitting one even line to make a chocolate line so it will be 8 even bred soon. I split my breeding by generations in general so I’m not overwhelmed with foals each season. Main goal is to stay under 2k mares in pasture.

I have 3 lines that I save stock for, and way more breeders than I need.

First is my main. Heavy with a or At. I use all my foundation studs with this group, and find joy in seeing what I get at gen 3 and higher. I have up to gen 6 but no stars yet, so I'm culling for quality at gen 3 now.

Second is my Cherry Drop Dreams. Wild bay heavies with at least one darkening gene. My phantom genes are having fun with all the frame over here. These girls almost never see pasture.

Last is my bootstrap. Any genes and any size. Red gen 2 that fail my first two lines end up here, and must throw blue or better to be kept. I have a favorite stud, but I like using straws on these girls before pastures open.

I really should break down my main line further, but I love just shoving keepers in pasture.

I like Confluence's comment above, I have layered lines! They all overlap to some degree! The most separate would probably be mushroom, they look best without all the fantasy genes so prevalent in my other horses but even mushrooms get mixed up with the other at times. Chinchilla is a bit separate, but it does look great with watercolour and the ice genes so I can mix it in a lot more. I have a bit of everything but the watercolour/ice lines seems to have been my fave for a while now, mostly bay/brown/DP based, but it mixes in with a lot of everything else! I breed for cobs in everything, so that parts easy. Kp, DP and silver are in just about everything. The only other kind of separate lines, are those of era. This is less about the LB, as with so many fantasy genes they aren't often in era LB's anyway, but more to keep track of new lines and colours with the kaleidoscope that is my herd!!

Too many to even count. =))

Foundations can be 13.2hh at their smallest

I used to have like, 10 different lines that were all over the place but in the past several months, i have managed to narrow it down to 4-5. And i have VERY strict requirements for foals to stay intact. Bear with me, this may get a tad long lol

*My main two lines are Mushroom and Chinchilla

1.) Mushroom
- I have three A papered Foundation Mushroom studs and two Blue papered Foundation Mushroom mares. (Unfortunately i am an idiot who put onyx on two of them when i specifically didn't want fantasy genes in my super boosty mushrooms *insertfacpalmhere* So i am gonna work on breeding out all teh fantasy genes down the line)
- The Studs:

A1 MuA SiderealPlexus oNU

A1 MuA DragonsOfStarlight

A1 MuA Merlin
- The Mares:

MEF 1G Witch Hunter UDP

A1 MuA Rithal

2.) Chinchilla
- I have two A papered foundation Chinchilla stallions and one Blue papered foundation Chinchilla mare. I also have one B papered foundation Chinchilla stallion that get his own chinchilla line separate from the A papered.
- The A papered Stallions:

A1 ChnA Warrior

A1 ChnA Watership Down
- The B papered Stallion:

A1 ChnB Pinot Noir
- The Mare:

MEF 1G Silver Wing CQdi16

3.) Studio Ponoc (Coming Soon!)
- Studio Ponoc is the name of Studio Ghibli's replacement. He will have his own line in my barns as well as be shared among all the players who wish to use him. The main focus of his line will be the nexus. All 3G+ must be hom for nexus to stay intact.
- Here he is so far! I just need the RGS to cooperate with me

GMT Ghibli Replacement

4.) Show Ponies/Bootstrap
- My bootstrap/show pony line is one big line broken into categories/mini lines. So my axioms are divided into mini lines based on the Hogwarts houses as well as in a large mixed pasture for those that don't fit the requirements of the house pastures. I also have an Ice 10/Wrong Warp/Thunderstruck bootstrap pasture, a Nexus one, and just a plain Highest PT pasture.

**I do have two C papered studs that i just couldn't bear to sell that i use for mini lines as well. However the A papered foundation lines take 1st priority.

AHH 1G Tetelestai DK3zU4O

AHH 1G Mr Sand Man KNQ3s4

Here are my requirements for foals:
1. Must pass SBA, even lab babies
2. Paper Levels;
Foundation - B/A/Red/Blue
Second Gen - A/Blue
Third Gen - A/Star(rare)Blue/Gold(rare)
Fourth Gen and up- Star/Gold
3. ALL colts MUST test Superior to Sire; ALL fillies MUST test Superior to Dam
4. Must test Consistent
5. AFPT Score for mares (after 3 foals) and stallions (after 10 foals) (this might be adjusted to be a bit more strict if needed since i am using super boosted stock)
- F 9.9
- 2G 10.3
- 3G 10.7
- 4G 11.1
- 5G 11.6
- 6G and up 12 or higher
6. 3G+ MUST be Homozygous (for either Mushroom, Chinchilla, or Nexus, depending on the line)

**I am still working on fine tuning my new lines and way of culling/processing foals but i am hoping this will give me the best possible quality horses :)