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If I were you I'd start culling the blues on consistency. Inconsistent horses are more likely to throw inconsistent foals. It also lowers the pt a bit. Since the main aim of a bootstrap herd is to produce high pted show ponies, having them be consistent can help

Whelp, that's a start at least lol!

If you can't be bothered calculating AFPT, you could always next cull for a colour that you love. If it's common enough in your herd that most are at least het, you could always cull the ones without it, or those not hom for it.

I breed for flashy ponies, not always just high PT, so instead of culling on inconsistency I usually cull on flashiness. I have several genes I love - satin, pearl, white spotting - so when I get a foal with only one of those, or het of only two, or otherwise plain, it'll often get culled. Golds get more leeway, and the blues have to be a lot prettier to stay, but I've culled a gold or two before as well.

I also look at parents, which helps - if I get a blue out of a gold, that's an instant snip. If I get a blue out of a blue, they sometimes get to stay (though that have to be extra shiny compared to the dam), and the next foal has to be a gold (so blue out of blue out of blue will go unless they're very, very flashy).

One other way I cull established mares that have had multiple foals is to pull up the foals and look at both AFPT and average papering - while I know it's technically the RNG on that one, if the blue mare has only thrown blues and A's (four or five times) when paired with a star, it's possible she's a lower blue and so I'll often cull her.

I’ll take any blue mares you want to sell! Inconsistent doesn’t bother me in the slightest. Unique colors are good though... I love satin. But my boys are pretty crazy colored so I could take plains too.

I agree with everyone else on AFPT (If they’ve been consistently bred to similar quality stallions though. I couldn’t do this because sometime I let my foundation or 2G stallions cover, then sometimes my mid Stars.) (edit: nvmd looks like you just commented on that)

Do you prefer a certain weight/height? Any colors that aren’t your favorite?

How much for all of them?

Sounds good to me! Do you have a buddy chat we can use?

That’s fine with me. I’ve halfway saved up for a 210 stall barn and j still have a few horses to send to my SS