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Crazy Stallion line.
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I have one stallion, or line of stallions that just seems to be going insane. Don't know what to think of it, but I'll take it. haha. I try not to collect too many of my colts as stallions as I don't have too many mares and I already have too many boys as is. I do have several foundation stallions though. Some exceptional, some top notch producers and perfect foundations, and some generic herd helper stallions of interesting colors. Most of the generic stallions I don't use that much because they are a grab bag as far as breeding quality is concerned, but I have this one generic boy, who has thrown a colt of quality that put even my exceptionals' colts to shame.
Then I got a colt from the son and a daughter from my Wild boy who has been promising even though Wildly Generous has never produced a colt I found passed muster, and that 3g colt just papered aga one of my superior to sire 4g colts. Makes me wonder if some stallions or lines are particularly better at throwing filleis, or colts or something like that with all my efforts to get good colts from Wildly Generous and my exceptional boys and this boy's progeny are out raising the bars for generation quality one by one. Also, I'm not trying to pick out the silvers with these guys. If anything, after the first guy I was trying to shy away from it. Contemplated gmting the silver off the colt since I'll have to add another black to him anyway, but right now I'm thinking I'll leave the silver on as sort of the mark of this stallion line. :)
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Not shure. But they are gorgeous.
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Remember breeding is a true numbers game. If you breed at max offspring per stallion per year, you will get (assuming your mares are of similar quality, and you're using the pasture bonus) a handful (single digits!) of truly superior offspring in that batch per year. If you're lucky. I consider a successful year to be having 2 colts that comp test at my standards from a sire. Occasionally I get 3 or 4. Sometimes I only get one or none at all. You have to assume you're having about the same success at producing truly superior fillies...you just can't tell with them until they've got 3 foals. So if you've culled colts for, say, color or PT or consistency before you cull for strict breeding quality, you may be snipping superior colts but somehow your superior fillies are slipping through, causing a Secretariat type scenario of excellent broodmares but unsuccessful breeding stallions.
Regardless, I have lines in my herd that start at foundation or gen 2 with a stallion and then run only through my mare lines for generations before producing a top stallion at gen 4 or 5. Obviously these are mixed lines and maybe have a boosted line mixed in (Dark Pearl runs thick and fast through my herd), but it's always super exciting to me when I see a sire return to prominence with a top colt.