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How Do You Weed Your Herd Out
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I need to downsize.
How to you weed out your breeders and show horses?
Thanks for the suggestions!
~Blu -
Testing, testing, and more testing. I run everyone through SBA and all the other test. Anyone who is Inconsistent gets altered. All horses who do not meet the guidelines for their generation get altered.
For regular lines:
Foundation C/Yellow
Gen 2 B/Red
Gen 3 A/Red moving to Blue
Gen 4 superior A/Blue
Gen 5 *Star/ Blue moving to Gold
Gen 6+ *Star/*Gold
I then cull for color. Anyone who is not the color I want get altered. Then I comparison test my stallions to their Sirs. Anyone who is not superior gets altered. By this point I've cut down many of the foals. Sometimes I still left with a few but by then It's pretty easy for me to decided who is going to the pasture and who is going to just show or I sell them off to newer players who need a good start in a color without costing them an arm and a leg. -
I test everything for everything lol I run the testing before I open any of their pages so that I won't get overly attached to any overly pretty ponies. I love the bulk testing and test in the order of the buttons and open links for everything I'd like altered. I breed Grullo so I alter everything that isn't Grullo. I also alter inconsistent horses.
For show horses I use the search and go through each age group and sort by overall points. Starting with the oldest I yum or auction a few of the bottom earners of each age bracket and I stop when I reach horses that haven't levelled off yet (horses usually level off around the time when their age reaches their PT score) then I use the search to sort horses by PT to check on the horses with low PT to see how they are holding up. I rarely cull any horses that have not levelled off and I leave the levelled off horses with points because while they may not earn many points per show they can still accumulate points which increase your daily bonus which means more money for you.
I used to only cull enough to keep my stalls from overflowing and any extra money I had I exchanged for IV's and bought the biggest barn I could afford. Now my herd is large enough that my daily bonus goes towards Mondo barns for my show horses and I just about earn enough for another by the time I fill the last one I bought. So now the only "culling" I do is to my breeding stock to alter them and put them in my show herd :DThanked by 1BlueJumpingBean -
It's always a good idea to run your horses through the free breeding advice first before you do any other tests. This can help you save money because you won't waste 1000 hbs on papering a horse that is just going to get snipped by Breeding Advice anyways. That's especially useful to do if you are testing a bunch of foundations you just created, because if you don't usually keep altered foundations as show horses, then you can just put them in the auction and get your 2500 hbs back instead of wasting money on papering, PT testing, or color testing horses that you will not want to keep.Thanked by 1BlueJumpingBean