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Yep, did that last season to a pasture with 100 mares....Nearly burst into tears. Culled the lot of them LOL
I am much more careful now :(( :(( :((

Look away....Don't look at the pretty. Just cut and run :D

Omg! That's terrible I'm so sorry I would die!! Well now you have lots of beautiful show ponies

Awe that's such a bummer :(

Now she is stunning! Is that S+ and liver? So lovely~

Ive never done it with a huge pasture thankfully but even the smaller pastures still sting especially when you were excited to breed the cross you had in mind! Its only happened once so far lol they make good show babies and if too pretty to snip I keep them as either mares for embryo transfers or breed them to other super uneven horses or high gen horses to make show ponies lol

@Roseflute, I had a 2g and a 3g stallion in a pasture of 2g mares. I had planned to breed the pasture with 2 2g studs, but had a huge brain fart when adding the 3g. Most of the snipping was because of Inconsistent, or manual snipped because the foals had the same grandsire from both parents. :(

Why would you cull them if they passed breeding inspection? Just treat them like any other 3rd gen horse. They would have probably given you lovely 4th gen babies. There was no need to snip them all or get rid of them. There was nothing wrong with them as breeding horses. Matching Generations are all in people's heads, matching quality is the only thing that matters. Shame to waste good breeding horses.

At low levels pairing generations is often a pairing of quality, and is more likely to get you intact horses, but once you've bred mismatched horses, there is nothing that makes the surviving foals less worthy or less valuable to your breeding program. Indeed, pairing a good 3 gen stud with 2 gen mares will likely result in fewer intacts but the intact mares are likely to be of slightly higher quality than a 2g/2g pairing would have given you. That can help combat the natural mare lag that occurs when you only keep superior studs. Treat them like 3rd gens, and get lovely foals from them. Heck breed them back to their sire.

The best breeding stud in the game right now is DS On Purpose. His sire was 10 generation and his dam was 9th generation. Don't shoot yourself in the foot over generation.

You will find that, as you get higher in generation, generational breeding stops working, it is neither the most effective, nor the most efficient way to breed high quality horses. I too, used to stick to even generational breeding, until my horses stagnated and stopped progressing. Once I switched to breeding by quality and not by generation I started advancing again.

Breeding even generations isn't wrong, but it's important to look at why you are breeding even generations only. Is it because it's the thing to do, and it makes the pedigrees look nice? Or is it because you want to try to get the best horses you can. If your mares were giving you red papered foals when put to a higher quality stud, that is what they woud give you when put to a lower quality stud. Just don't let a rigid adherance to generations for generations sake prevent you from thinking outside the box to give your lines a nudge when they start to stall, and they will, eventually, start to stall.

Forgive me if I have come off a bit strong. I'm on a crusade to stop the "unevenly bred horses are worthless breeders" idea that has taken root in this game. There is nothing about unevenly bred horses who pass testing that makes them inherently any less valuable as a breeding horse than an evenly bred horse. Uneven breeding can be a useful strategic move to improve the quality of your horses, it is another tool and shouldn't be discarded out of hand.