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Stone Run Stables · Jul 28, 2017 6:20 PM

Okay, so I didn't think this through when I planned my pasture seasons a couple months ago. I have a pasture full of red mares and one blue girl who I have been excited to breed my A boy to since she was born. I know the logical thing would be to just throw my B boy in the pasture since the majority of the mares in there are red papered. The thing is if I did that then I would want to pull the blue mare out of the pasture and breed her to my A boy. Of course, I do not want to lose my pasture bonus with her so I'm at a loss of what to do. I also thought about just throwing both boys in the pasture and hoping the A boy would breed to the blue mare, but my luck that wouldn't be the case. There is no way I could buy an extra pasture, I thought of that also. What would you guys do if you were in this situation?

HunterUnderSaddleGirl · Jul 28, 2017 6:31 PM

Maybe just put the A boy in? More will be altered, but I don't find that that much more will be. And the ones that are intact will be all the better. Or as you said, just take her out to breed.

JordanK · Jul 28, 2017 6:41 PM

I would just put the A boy in. Since they have pasture bonus you'll likely end up with some intact. Especially if some are high red.

ElementalStables · Jul 28, 2017 7:05 PM

I'd personally just pull her out and lose her bonus - better to lose one bonus than to mess up all the other breedings.

ColorGoodStables · Jul 28, 2017 8:04 PM

Id pull her out also. Why waste your matched quality horses for one mare?

shad0cat · Jul 28, 2017 9:52 PM

I'm with HunterUnderSaddlegirl on this one. I've had 3 blue mares in my pastures with only B stallions because that's what I had. I have plenty of intact babies from those mares. Maybe I would have had more if I had had an A Stallion but it was still enough.

Cheers · Jul 28, 2017 10:32 PM

It depends what you're chasing.

If more intact foals are your goal, I would throw in your B boy and/or pull your Blue girl out.

If higher quality is your goal, I would throw in your A boy.

Neither is wrong. It's just about priorities.

kassierae · Jul 29, 2017 8:22 AM

^That. I always stick my 2g A boys in with red mares and have gotten some lovely Blue 3g mares and A papered colts. My homebred(mostly) Star papered 4g colt is a product of a 3g A papered sire, whose parents are a 2g A and 2g Red.

http://hj2.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=947802

Stone Run Stables · Jul 31, 2017 12:57 PM

Thank you all for your input, i think I'll just throw the A boy in!

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