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I have this pasture of mares that for the most part have 30+ day pasture bonuses. https://mesa.huntandjump.com/member.php?uid=12824&p_id=0&sp=y

I have 20ish stallions that I mix and match to these mares. 5 of these 20 stallions are either 20+ years old or deceased.

So for breeding I usually pull all of the mares out of the pasture, and then selectively rotate a few mares at a time back into the pasture with their matched stallion to breed one small batch of mares at a time via pasture breeding. Those foals I expect to have a 30 day pasture bonus.

For my deceased stallions I will leave the mares matched to them in one of my barns. Breed them with a straw, then rotate them back into the pasture afterwards so that they don't lose their pasture bonus. Those foals I expect to have the 15 day bonus.

I did try out a few foals where I pulled an egg from the mare, and created an embryo, then rotated her back into the pasture and bred her own embryo to herself so that I could get the 45 day super bonus on those foals.

I then put all of the foals through strict breeding advice and then comparison test them to a fully maxed generational benchmark. (i.e. starting from c/yellow parents and entire pedigree is maxed). So the foals that pass all of my testing should be top level for their generation. Anything that fails comparison testing is gelded/spayed.

As I went through my testing I noticed a trend that didn't reflect what I was expecting:

My pasture bred foals I had a pass rate of 7%. The small handful that did pass had B/Red foundations somewhere in their pedigree. So they had an advantage in passing my generational benchmark.

My straw bred foals had a pass rate of 87%. Which seems statistically way too high considering they should have had less of a bonus benefit than my pasture bred foals. The few that didn't pass had mothers who had a 5 day pasture bonus instead of the 30+ days.

My embryo bred foals with the 45 day bonus had like a 99% pass rate, which was what I was expecting. The one foal that didn't pass had a mother than only had a 5 day pasture bonus.

Long story short, I believe that my straw bred foals were getting a 45 day bonus, instead of the 15 day bonus I was expecting. Maybe I'm incorrect in my thinking and it's correct that they would get a 45 day bonus? Or maybe it's a bug. In general I feel like my pasture bred foal pass rate was way too low and my straw bred foal pass rate was way too high.

Here's one of the straw bred foals.
https://mesa.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=3291076

Thought this was worthwhile to bring to your attention. Can provide more information if needed.