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An Introduction to various breeding schemes and my perceived pros and cons of them:

Hi. So one of the things I like about this game is the wide multitude of different ways people can do it, and one of the things I like best is discovering different ways to tweak things. Generation breeding was what was main stream when I started. With this you get the highest amount of intact foals when taken through breeding advice, which is a very useful tool and saves 100's of thousands of hbs worth of comparison testing, plus has the accomplishment of the real life years involved in creating a 6th gen even horse from your home foundation stock, but with that you need separate pastures for each gen you breed unless you do barn breeding, and I personally get frustrated with how I can't breed my highest gen stock waiting for more horses of that gen to be born till there are enough to justify a pasture for them(Right now I am waiting on my gen 6s to accumulate of proper quality for my tastes).
Classic bootstrapping, finding the highest gen mares or stallions and breeding them to the horses you have to breed up the quality/ colors you want as fast as possible is a strategy I have enjoyed for years. You only need one pasture for your line (2 if you have a high stallion line and another line for high mares trying to breed in newer colors going) You get high quality quickly and theoretically the offspring should be amazing show ponies, but I will have to check it out again, I am under the impression that 2nd gen foals are usually the most profitable show ponies, but I would need to pay more attention to the leaderboards and various player experiments to be more confident in that. If you love those star papers and high pts bootstrapping is a quick way to go. This used to be a good way to try to get awards too, though most bootstrap herds are era 0 and the leader board for that is chalk full of double boosters now, so the best way to compete for awards in era 0 is to double boost your horses too. In all reality the classic bootstrap herds have hit the ceiling and since that ceiling cap is what they chase I am finding there is not much left for me to be discovering with it anymore despite how much I love bootstrap breeding and the herd I have because of it. But I am at the point of wanting to experiment with something new... Hence my hybrid herd was born!