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I loved reading fj1482's update so much and loved seeing the pretty ponies and and how she got there so much that I thought I would try to do something similar. There are so many ways to play the game, so many fun things different players are doing, and it is fun to hear how others are doing. It would be really fun if little "newsletters" or whatever you called these became more common so we could see common interests or get inspirations from what other people are doing. I have a few different lines going but for the most part I have my bootstrap project and my even quality breeding lines.

Even quality breeding:
This is the best I can come up with to call what I consider my version of generation breeding. For those who have been around for a while, I have been a rather active uneven bred horse advocate (ok, that makes me sound a bit more fanatical than I was going for. lol) And I have several uneven mares I either collect from outside sources, or accidental breedings, or horses I was really excited for, but they didn't paper high enough for their generation so I "bumped them down" a generation, and really I look at these horse's papers and use those to determine which generation they belong in and then breed and cull as if they were in that assigned generation. I also try to use really high even (or in rare cases aga even) studs to try to cull out all but the top highest foals for breeding each year, so... yeah, that is my version of "generation breeding"

My main line is my sooty black based duns with genes I can transfer to other players. Many of my other lines were originally supposed to be melded into this one eventually, but complications over which horses I would be able to sell after that and how difficult to get many of the genes in question has made me keep those in their own separate lines for the most part. Still working on trying to add more dp and sooty plus to my lines to make the bay duns that much darker, but recently got a stud to help me do that. Really excited about now having 2 star 4th gen studs and no longer accepting blue mares above gen 4. That is causing things to go slow, but I don't have a stud for sixth ben yet, so I have time. because of how greatly successful my bootstrap line is, I have been culling this herd far harsher, calculating afpt and how much longer they would be here to decide if I cull a mare or not if gen 2 mare has foal with pt under 10.5, gen 3 mare has foal pt under 11, gen 4 has foal with pt under 11.5, etc...(I have a hard time culling a mare that has been in my herd 14+ years. I normally will just let her try for good foals till she ages out at that point) The goal was to either stop that stagnation of my even lines or eventually cull them out, and although numbers of mares are dropping, I am getting improvement, so fingers crossed.

Foggy Weather

B Believe in Pitch Black

Info Storm J 1055

My kings ransom bred line is plugging along, starting gen 4 now, and getting a new color I hadn't seen before each month, and finally got gen three studs for my GP, KP, Snowflake, and Nexus horses all last month after over a real life year of not getting much of anything exciting, so hopefully I can show some pretties from those lines soon.

Bootstrapping:
When I was a new player I got excited and got a Star papered colt in auction, only to find out later that to get "good quality horses" I had to use similar quality studs, and so had no one to use him on despite him clearly being my best stud. 5 months ago when he was nearing the age to pass out of the game and I was restarted at my even lines stagnating with only 2 gold fillies, I started breeding every mare I had to him, his worse than, but still star son, or my fifth gen star. I only put colts through breeding advice and kept gold fillies and blues with the genes I wanted. I'm now breeding the children of that cross, and soon their children, have now put everyone through ba to keep my best mares and will be getting foals from a solidly gold herd (except for some low mares I recently threw in to put machiato, nexus and ice 5 in there possibly and some mares from earlier that hit the 14 mark) I no longer have my original stallion for breeding, but am excited to see what next month will bring. (always have figures crossed for breaking the 12.7 pt wall I keep coming to)

Some of my most promising mares:

Heightened Singularity Bb

B Atlantic Storm

A Solemn Song

My bootstrap studs I will use this coming month:

B Into the West
I was hoping to breed pearl out of my line... but he may even be slightly better than his sire (tested aga) I will have to cull pearls later.

Took it by Storm j
My bootstrapped GP herd was quicker at showing GP than my even herd, but still lagging behind the rest of my bootstraps. Hoping breeding this guy to my higher mares will get me a superior to sire (ideally aga west) het gp colt, and then I can go back to getting a Hom sire.


So, yep. Feel free to ask questions or tell me about your projects or similar goals. Or whatever. :)