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I'm on the opposite end of the scale from Cheers. :D

I keep most of my horses and only send inconsistent horses with PT scores below 9.0 to the auction. I snip 2nd gen colts from non-exceptional parents that don't paper B and fillies that don't paper Red. From exceptional foundation parents (B and Red papers) I generally snip all colts that don't paper A and the A papered ones that comparison test worse than their brothers. I will keep Red papered 2nd gen mares from exceptional lines until I get enough blue papered 2nd gens to make a reasonable breeding pool.

Most of my breeding tends to be foundations and 2nd gens, and I have a lot of them. If I have a Red papered mare that gives me a lot of C papered colts and yellow papered fillies, she will get snipped. I confess that I have a lot of elderly intact horses that have never been bred. They support the stable by showing and gathering points for me. Breeding is a sideline in my stable. :D

I am strict with my horses...
*They all have to pass SBA.
*Colts have to be superior to sires and then I comparison test them against each other.
*Inconsistent foals get snipped.
*If they are from C/Yellow parents (Foundation) then I only keep the B/Red babies
If they are from Red/B parents (Foundation) then I only keep A/Blue babies.

It doesn't make for a lot of babies this way but I am hoping that I am producing quality over quantity.
Since I have basically started from scratch, I have also adopted Cheers idea of keeping tabs of what AFPT my mares are producing (It is a painstaking process to write all the babies info on each mares page lol ).
I will also be giving my pasture mares 3-4 chances to produce intact foals (I noticed a lot of my previous mares never actually gave me a foal that was up to standard).

Embrace the fact that you have no hope and keep breeding until you have no choice but to buy barns and pastures with real money. :D

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Thanks guys. I don't have many pastures-would love more but I just can't afford to spend real money on them. So I know that hurts me. As far as AFPT I know you have to click on each mare for that to show in your barn page. Do you have to click them all for it to update? Because there is no way I have time for that. :-(

I spay/geld anything that isn’t consistent or grullo and run sba on everyone. Each generation has a prefix and their own barn and occasionally I will run down the barn list and geld/spay the lower paper lever per generation.

All my colts are tested superior to their sire and then tested against their brothers to be at least AGA any colt gets gelded as soon as he has a superior brother. If more than 3 aga brothers I geld the excess colts by PT keeping the highest intact.

But I keep everything. Every single foal and only sell or auction foundations. Because of this my show herd is quite a bit larger than my breeding herd and pays for everything. I buy 1000stall show barns and by the time I fill up one with show horses they have earned enough to buy another 1000 stall barn.

When I was a smaller barn and did have to cull I only culled the oldest horses that were leveled off. These are the horses that won’t be making you many more points so if they don’t have any they are taking up space from a younger horse with more points.

I would open the search and put in my ID and sort by all time points and uncheck mares and stallions. starting with the oldest age horse I would cull the bottom few (After a while I started to notice that each age bracket would have a small gap between the bottom 1/3 and the top 2/3 (roughly) so I would just cull until the bottom 1/3). I would work my way down each age until I reached ages that some of the horses PT scores were higher than their age and I would only cull the ones that their page said leveled off. I stopped when I reached age 9 or 10. Next time I culled is start from the top again and work my way down.