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Here is a completely non-hypothetical question that I'm curious to see how people feel.

When you get a straw, it comes with a ton of possibilities. You can cross them all on your favorite mare in sequential months. You can save them for when you have more time/fewer projects. You can use them on broods owned by others or combine them with exotic eggs. But they also come with expenses. Just breeding the foal is a 3000 hb bill, not to mention all the testing. Plus, the foals may not even come out intact.

Receiving foals has fewer possibilities - the genetics are set, unless you pay to change them, and the ability to change them will be limited to their parents' genetics - but also far fewer costs. If the foal has already been tested, it's only going to cost 1 hb, and it'll be known to be intact with the desired genes.

So, if your gift form indicated you wanted foals with certain genetics, would you rather receive the possibilities of the straw, or the known genetics and breed-ability of the foal?

(please also include your daily payout if you answer so I can see how opinions change with barn size/development)