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1) I pick a few "hard and fast" color rules for each server and make myself stick to them regardless of how pretty and shiny the horses may be. On both servers I breed for light boned and start with ExPro/ExPerf foundations, but on here I look for horses are ee sty sty with DP and on Bluegrass its Ee/EE sty sty with silver. On Bluegrass I also do watercolor, Nacre and chinchilla which is a ton of fun. I really like having the different goals on different servers, it helps keep my mind organized and keep both lines in check and prevents me from collecting alllll the RS. :))

I also really try to focus on increasing the quality of my horses with each generation so that plays a huge factor in which horses I alter. I started out by keeping everything that passed SBA and was "consistent" intact, once I got more funds I started comparison testing all of my studs and only keeping superior intact. Last month I was finally able to get through comparison testing all of my mares too and only kept superior intact. Now I am slowly thinning out my red papered G2 mares by keeping only those that are hom DP and superior intact.

2) I try to keep as many show ponies as I can, but I do cull any that are inconsistent. Last month I had also started auctioning off all foals with less that 10.8 PT, but after reading this thread on Bluegrass, I am going to try and keep even more of youngsters and focus more on auctioning off the leveled off horses over 10

https://www.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/comment/247442#Comment_247442

3) Again I really try to keep as many show ponies as I can and for some reason it's a lot easier for me to alter a nice mare/stud that doesn't quite meet my goals if I know they will stick around in my show herd. I was also super pleased with how many mares I was able to sell in my most recent post instead making them as show ponies, so I guess offering them up to the community first is another great method!

My favorites of yours are these three and of course their side/grand sire!

https://mesa.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=224514
https://mesa.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=198031
https://mesa.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=246746

https://mesa.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=45220

1) The only thing the 3 servers have in common for me is I hope their bay allele is brown. On this account, I want heavy and sty with a spotted butt. On bluegrass, I want tiny sables with minimal white, heavy on tobiano. On forest, I want all the colors of the rainbow mixed with all the fancy genes as heavy as I can get. My forest bootstrap herd has even fewer rules.

2) If it makes me happy, and passes testing, it goes in my herd. If it makes me happy and it fails testing, it goes in my show herd. If it doesn't make me happy, or it's too cute to snip for show, it goes in auction. If I see an ISO that is looking for something I have, I love selling horses cheap out of my broodstock. I can always make more.

3) I don't know. I hope if I sell them, they do well in their new homes. I'd much rather a breeder finds a new home than spend 6 years doing nothing in my barn.

4) I don't need anything thank you, but if 2-3 open gene straws jumped in my freezer I'll use them.

Last notes, Forsest is my big account. I found the best thing I ever did for my daily bonus once I got above 3000 horses was to give myself a barn stall cap. I recently bumped it up to 5200 stalls because I was having a hard time accommodating all the foals after buying two pastures, but having that limit means I cull my older show horses much harder to make everyone fit by the end of the month. Every couple of months I have to weed one generation of mares or another, but that's a much smaller job than having to look at all my mares.

Thank you for the straws and eggs and for prompting an excellent discussion! :D

Thank you for the straws! Now I need to pick out mares before pastures autorun.