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BurntHillCreek · May 30, 2018 7:05 PM

So, I have a question and I know this is a matter of preference, but, what is your ideal sized barn for your individual herds. I want to start organizing my breeding herds into their own barns so I am not constantly searching through the long lists of horses. I was thinking 30 or 60 stall barn, but I wanted to see what others did for an idea.

best friend · May 30, 2018 7:28 PM

Not sure I just have mare barns and one stallion barn. Then I have show barns.

FallenShadows714 · May 30, 2018 7:56 PM

It depends on a couple things.
1. Do you have multiple breeding lines (I.e. color, fantasy genes, etc)?
2. Do you want to separate by generation as well as color, or can all the generations be mixed as long as the one line is together?
3. Will the stallions for each line be housed inside the same barn as the mares, or do they have a different barn?
4. Will the answers to questions 1-3 leave enough room for foals and growing fillies inside x size barn?

Most of my mares spend their live season in pasture, so I don’t have many barns for breeding age mares. And I have only one line, so when they do stay in barns it doesn’t matter if they mix anyway. Just some questions for you to think about as you try to decide.

GeneverGinger · May 30, 2018 8:24 PM

I am organizing my lines by barn, and I'm finding that 60-120 size barns are working OK for now but I think that the 60 barns are going to be too small in another generation. So I agree with FallenShadows that it depends on how you want to organize them?

Right now I have a barn for silvers, a barn for champagne, a barn for my dark drafts (which really needs to be 2 barns, as soon as I can afford that), and a barn for fantasy genes in addition to my show horse barns.

My breeding age ladies are in pasture, so those barns are mostly for foals-to-3 and spare studs. However, I'm going to be moving some of my foundation horses out of pasture in a season or two, which is when barn space is gonna get crunched. (I haven't decided yet if I'm going to sell some of them or snip and show the lot... regardless, I'm gonna need more space!)

I do like having things organized this way. It makes it really easy to compare foals when I'm deciding who to keep and who to cull.

ColorGoodStables · May 30, 2018 8:45 PM

I used to keep mine organized by Showponies, young intact stock, then generation.
Now my whole stable idea junked mess. I've not stallions in eight he mares and mares in with the show ponies, and my foals are everywhere in between.

I think the ideal size depends on you stable size. I have over 1000 horses so if I organized my barns I could either do mass herd barns where I keep individual lines in slots of 250. OR you could do it by pasture size. For a medium sized stable most pastures will hold 60 horses so if you do your barns at that size you can easily mass transfer them back and fourth instead of picking them from large herd barn.

...my barns are 100% full but this made me won't to move everyone and clean them up

Bandit1119 · May 30, 2018 9:29 PM

I just have 1 line (grullo with patterns) and sort by generation. There’s 2 sub lines within that get separated for breeding but stuck back in the same barn with the same generations.

This game I’ve not reached capacity and still shuffle barns about to get larger generations room to grow so have a range of 60-210 stall barns but on HJ1 I’ve completely made the switch to 210stalls for breeding stock and 1000 stalls for show stock.

Since there’s 5 show barns they pay for all my extra breeding stalls without issue and I have about 3 generations that max out their stalls when I stuff the new babies in before running testing. Trying to decide if I’d like to start a secondary barn for those generations or start going through my mares to trim up to my best breeders. But I’m working on renewing my lines agmfter letting them die out quite a bit over the last few years

Cheers · May 30, 2018 11:02 PM

My mares of breeding age live in pastures (I have been buying pastures for a few real life years now, so I have plenty). As a result, my barns house all of my stallions and all of my young stock not able to be pastured yet. I keep 210 stall barns for each generation, which house all of the lines in that generation. I also keep show pony barns (mostly 1000 stall) and a Sales barn, a holding barn for horses for sale on buddy chats...I’m not far from needing to invest in my next show pony barn.

StarChild92 · May 30, 2018 11:17 PM

I would love to have a couple 210 barns for my lines and an 1000 for show stock, which will be my first goal after I finish with my gmt project!

Amgr1992 · May 30, 2018 11:33 PM

Posted from the wrong account^ sorry!

kintara · May 31, 2018 2:31 AM

I like barns as big as possible, 1000 horse barns work for me LOL!! Barns are for showing mostly so yes big works! For pastures though, I'm pretty happy with the 30 or 60 horse pastures, as I can put just one or two stallions in with the mares I want to use with him. Any bigger and I can't really use them for breeding when full, so just use for storage

Skylight · May 31, 2018 2:45 AM

I around 90 seems to be good although I have some 120's and 210's I havent been able to save up for the 1,000 stall barn yet. It would cost over 400 IV's and I'm doing good just keeping up with the expanding herd with adding smaller barns here and there.

Usually by the end of the breeding season my barns are a mess and I spend the non-breeding days sorting the barns and naming the foals.

DevilsParadise · May 31, 2018 5:11 AM

I have 4 stallion barns (and I keep adding to that number...), 3 barns of foundation mares who I don't breed much anymore (unless I'm starting a new line or bootstrapping), a couple of barns for my RS mares, a couple of barns for mares under 3 and then a whole bunch of show barns of varying sizes. When I started, I could only afford 15s, now I can get 120s, and I've held on to them all.

HunterUnderSaddleGirl · May 31, 2018 5:28 AM

I do it similarly to Kintara. The bigger the barn as possible. All of my organization is by naming. Generation always front. Then a 3 letter acronym for which goal. Then I move a bunch to a bigger pasture. Then use the alphabetical sorting to pick out certain horses into the smaller pasture. I normally push the edge of barn space versus horses, so I don't even like wasting 24 similar mares in a 30 stall barn, so its just easier to have one bigger barn that I can put them all in since they're all mixed together. Its easier then select all, choose a barn with spaces-repeat.

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