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I pick themes for the lines I have- could be related to their genome, desired physical appearance, book series. I then come up with an overall 1-2 word name for each line and slap The before the word(s) and Project after. Wah-la! Line name and acronym right there!

Take my line of liver mushrooms for example. Since the focus is on breeding mushrooms and all the keeper studs are named after species of mushrooms, it was easy to come up with Fungi to encompass the overall theme and that is how I have The Fungi Project (TFP) and all my horses that come from that line have TFP on their name. I also sort them by generation and ID number. Only 1 intact stud per generation is kept so that one will have naming like "3G Lions Mane TFP". Mares and colts that will be turned into mares have their generation, ID, and TFP (2G ID # TFP). I can then do a barn/pasture search by generation and sort through each generation as I need.

I also have The Dr Seuss Project (TDSP). Like above, only intact breeding studs receive an actual name (title of one of his books) with generation and TDSP while mares have _G ID # TDSP. Dr Seuss was a favorite of mine growing up so that is how I got that.

The Tiny Horse Project (TTHP) is self explanatory. I took the physical appearance of what I want my ponies to look like and used that.

TCP is The Celestial Project and studs are named after the constellations. Their emphasis is dilutions so they are "glittery and light".

Keep in mind, each line has its own very strict and specific color genomes/qualifications so even if I don't label the horse, I can look at its genome and tell exactly what line it descended from based on its genetics.

Hope this helps!

Mines similar to these. They start with the line they're in, so PD is Painted Drafts (my white 8 line), SN is my snowflake cob line, and WL is my watercolor lace line. The foundations always get a name I come up with - the watercolor lace line is song titles for some reason. After foundation, they get a word from the sires name and a random word after. So, for example, PD Guts and Glory is one of my foundation w8 studs. The second gen stud I kept from him is named PD Glorys Tiger. All his offspring are PD Tigers -. At the end of each name, I put paper level and generation, so like Bl2G - blue, second generation.

My M&M line is the one off from that - they're all named after sweet stuff.