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KAMRanch · Jan 25, 2018 10:55 AM

I love the pasture bonus, I love my pasture, but I am really feeling like I need more than one! Lol
I only have black mares for my black brindle stallion in one pasture, but I have a lot of bay mares with lower PTs that are doing horribly in showing so I need to retire them to pasture, they tend to do much better with the bonus anyway, so I feel like I need to make another pasture.. or I don't, but they're so helpful! I just can't justify spending real money this month on a pasture. Maybe next.. but I don't know! It's making me crazy going back and forth and seeing these mares take up space for last place show results.. I just wish I could split up my 100 pasture stalls into two or three sets so I could pick which stallion to go with each specific color of mares.. I don't know. I don't like the randomness of the three stallions covering any mare, I want to be more in control than that. I think I have a control problem now.. haha :-)) =))
What do all of you do with your pastures? How do you organize your mares and stallions for breeding?

Stefliz · Jan 25, 2018 11:05 AM

DevilsParadise · Jan 25, 2018 11:14 AM

I have a primary and a second largeish (30) pasture for storing mares, then I use a 10 mare pasture for my actual breeding. It's time consuming to go through and move all of my mares from one to the other and back again, but it lets me control who breeds with who. And it's cheaper than hand breeding. I wish pastures were able to be bought with game funds...

ZefSoFresStables · Jan 25, 2018 12:18 PM

I have the primary pasture not quite full, and a 10 mare pasture I bought while they were on sale. Then I can still bonus up the mares I need to, and also any I want to, and move them into the small pasture in 10s to breed to a specific stallion. Its time consuming but its definitely a benefit to match horses and still be able to pasture bonus everyone.

dark star · Jan 25, 2018 4:04 PM

After pasture breeding my mares I pull them all out into a large barn and sort them by AFPT. I make sure to open each page and refresh the AFPT of each mare. The top 100 go in one pasture, the second 100 go in another pasture and the rest get culled. I have a third pasture that holds roughly 100 new 3 and 4 year old mares. If I make sure to do my breeding on the 5th then everyone gets put back in in time to get their bonuses for next month.

Okay, so I don’t cull every month... sometimes I get lazy and skip a month or two.

As for studs, the top pasture gets my top two aged studs and whatever newcomer I think is going to be the best. Number two pasture gets one aged stud and 2 newcomers, and the third pasture gets 3 newcomers. All my studs are AGA each other, so it doesn’t make too much difference who breeds who. I also like the randomness.

I also keep one pasture for Era 3 mares and one for Era 5 mares, but I am only half heartedly pursuing those lines.

Cheers · Jan 25, 2018 4:23 PM

I have pastures for every line I’m breeding at foundation and gen 2 level, and several pastures for bootstrapping/show line mares. And then I have single pastures for gen 3-5 because I only have a few mares for them. Next season I will be ready to start dividing up my gen 3s...I have to breed the foundations or the gen 2s each year because I really don’t have time to breed both.

RoseFlute · Jan 25, 2018 4:35 PM

I have about 400 pasture stalls total that are just about packed up, except I keep my primary pasture clear so I can pull mares in from other pastures and breed them to the stud that corresponds to a letter attached to their generation tag at the beginning of their name. :)

Haltanny · Jan 25, 2018 5:07 PM

To help me keep the number of intact foals to go through manageable, I only use a 1 or 2 week bonus now. So I put mares in for a week or two, then put them into a 10 count pasture to breed, then they go back into barns to show. The next group of mares then go into primary pasture for a week or two.

I do it this way so I don't have 50+ intact fillies to go through. I don't have room or the desire to keep 50+ fillies every month.

kintara · Jan 25, 2018 7:42 PM

I have 30 pastures, which are all sorted into generation and era. In your situation though KAMRanch, I'd save up for a 10 horse pasture and keep all your mares in the primary pasture. Then just put small groups into the 10 horse pasture to breed them to different stallion

Dinascar · Jan 26, 2018 2:37 PM

It is a good idea to at least have a small breeding pasture that you can pull mares in to to breed to specific stallions - I have to do this as I like frame and white spotting - I would lose a lot of foals otherwise. Also I don't have many 4th+ gens but those are the girls I want to have the pasture bonus. It is time consuming - but one of my favorite things to do
(choosing pairings). :)

fj1482 · Jan 26, 2018 3:59 PM

I actually plan on spending some money and I need to do some major house cleaning. I normal make sure my primary barn is empty come the end of breeding season. I use that barn to auction off foals who I don't plan to keep for show and who didn't pass testing. I have a pasture for every line I breed and right now I'm starting to add 2nd gen pastures and I have two 3gen pastures. When the mares get to old to breed they will get pulled out and the pasture will be relabeled. I use the cash I get from selling foals who didn't pass testing to buy a new 30 stall show barn and fill it with that years foals and then make sure all my other show barns are full. If there is open space I fill it with a new show foal. Every one else gets sold off. Pastures are one of those things I will probably try and buy 1 new 30 pasture every week for a few weeks until I get everyone separated and moved. I'm also going through and tattooing everyone. I made all these cool tattoos and I don't use them lol

KAMRanch · Jan 26, 2018 5:05 PM

I BROKE down and bought the smallest pasture.. lol
Does anyone know if you can move a mare from pasture to pasture and still have the bonus? Or do they loose it? :(

Haltanny · Jan 26, 2018 5:08 PM

They keep the bonus as long as they stay in one or the other pasture.

Dinascar · Jan 27, 2018 7:01 AM

You won't regret it KAM - a very wise investment :)

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