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Just 2! Should be able to get them all done in time. I have 18 stalls, so gonna need to sell some back to the game to make room

I just picked the new stallions that came of age and pick mares to pasture them with. Still have only 47 left in pasture, though. :P School means if I did any more than that I'd be crazy. :D

I know I'm not going to get all of mine done this month so have them all at brood lol

@darkstar... you have 700 in pasture right now. I...don't understand. :O @-)

By the time you get that big you have developed quick and easy methods of sorting breedings and the results of breeding.

I know I’m not overly huge on this server but it usually only takes me a day to sort breedings and then to deal with the foals. If I still have mares unbred by now it’s because I’ve forgotten hj2 year is monthly lol (which is why I’m not as big as I am on hj1)

I have been rushing to breed the last of my pasture girls, and still have few pages of mare in barns. I will have to for go the barn mares. 750+ mares in pasture, and a few hundred more in barns equals 1000+/- foals; I need more pasture space. Now its a mad rush to sort the foals, ugh. And I am behind on tattooing, and tacking horses from a few seasons ago. I need to take a season off from breeding, or just grit my teeth as I sort through everything to get the Tat-tack done. *sigh*

@Roseflute. It’s all about having a system... and lots of empty stalls.

All my pastures are sorted, top mares in one, lesser mares in the others, and one or two for maiden mares. Then a pasture or two of bootstraps. I usually have which stud goes in which pasture sorted out before breeding season even starts. All I have to do is hit the breed button on the 5th (well, late on the 4th for me, love living in Hawaii.)

First horses I sort are my bootstrap foals. I keep my primary barn empty for easy sorting. I pull out as many pastures as I can get into the primary barn before it overflows and start sorting. All bootstrapped foals get PT’ed and color tested. Then I select only the mares. They are papered and anything over red gets moved to the Bootstrapping young mare barn, where they hang out until they are old enough to go into the pasture. The colts and any red mares that are left in the primary barn are run through BA, then SBA. Doing BA first gives me an idea of how my bootstrap lines are progressing. They are then moved to one of the show barns. I usually have a least 2000-3000 empty stalls so I don’t have to worry about not having enough stalls for my horses.

Then I sort out the non-boot strapped horses. I pull out as many as I can and all the foals are run through PT, Color, BA testing. Then the surviving mares are run through papering and moved to the non-bootstrapped young mares barn to hang out until old enough to go to the pastures. Colts are then put through SBA and I paper the colts, geldings and spayed mares. Surviving colts go to the stallion barn and the rest go to the show barn.

Then I go through my young bootstrapped mares barn and figure out how many need to be moved into the pastures. I then head to the bootstrapped pastures and pull out enough older, lesser performing mares to make room for the new round of fillies. The culled mares usually get tossed in the auction if they are foundations or spayed and shown if they are decently PTed. The new bootstrap mares are then put in the pasture.

The lined mares is a little tougher. About every other month I sort them by pulling them all out of the pastures and putting them in my empty 1000 stall sorting barn. I open each page and refresh their AFPT then sort them by AFPT and put them back in the pastures highest to lowest. Culling the bottom 100 or so. That usually gives me at least a season or two’s worth of room for new, young mares to go in the pastures.

I usually only have around 7 studs who survive SBA, so sorting through them isn’t hard. I generally just keep them all.

There, breeding done. I don’t care about color so that’s not an issue for me. The rest of the month, at least recently, I spend my time sorting through older show horses to cull to keep my monthly earnings down around 150k-100k a month. I need to do a better job at that, but I will probably wait until most of my older horses have passed.

Daaaaaang.

As a new player here, I am seriously inspired. (I do know enough to know you have a reputation though, dark star!).

Wow I thought I had it tough pasture breeding 48 and individual breeding 60 between my 3 accounts. I hope to someday have a couple 100 horses