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In HaJ1, I mark generations with a tattoo, currently up to 5th generation and then simply "Long Pedigree." The drawback I've found to this method is that I can't search by more than one tattooed characteristic at a time.

Here, I use a simple Arabic numeral following the name.

I think most people create their own system, and there's no "one best way."

I also used to put them at the end of the name but realized it was easier to have the number at the beginning lol. Like Sandy said theres no "one best way" do whatever works for you!

When I had a herd of a couple hundred mares JUST for embryo implantation I used alphanumerics for those ladies. They were all zNameofHorse so they would be bumped to the BOTTOM of the 'select a recipient mare' list. I had a heck of a time remembering to NOT just blindly click and end up using my fancy girls for recipient mares !

I use the Arabic numeral at the end of my color signifier suffix after the horse's name. That way I can tell at a glance not only what generation the horse is, but also what base color, pattern and special genes it may have. This is particularly helpful for selecting nonlethal breeding pairs/pasture groups without having to check each individual horse. I suspect that if I was regularly shuttling mares around I would find a different system but most of my girls live in pasture so I don't have that issue as much.

Like Confluence, my recipient mares all have a ZZ in front of their names. This means they come up first for embryo transfer instead of me needing to wade through and find them. Any ZZ mares I don't use at the end of a season can be used for public breeding or auction foal production.

Altered show ponies get their generation number only (if they haven't previously been breeding horses for me) with no color suffix. This helps me if I accidentally forget to turn off testing.

I know I certainly live in hope that a system to move mares to and around within my pasture system like the one in barns comes along at some point. It would be easier than my current method of moving horses within the system--handwriting a list and then slowly finding each one on the master list to move them.

Since Cheers is wondering how to do something like this (though, coming back to it, I think she was hoping for the sort of interface a barn has instead of what I'm about to say), I'll talk about my system. I don't mean to introduce a 'beat the system' Hack or whatever, it's just something I need to use to make do, since I really CAN'T buy any more pastures. (Believe me, it's a struggle.)
(Let me know if I should delete this comment, Ammit. :])

I have five pastures, so for people with a bazillion pastures, this might not work as well.
I labeled my pastures with different names for the different groups of mares that are pasture bred. I have more than five lines/groups, so I need to be able to move some groups out of a pasture while I breed one group with one or two stallions. This is really important for lethal combinations and keeping generations even.
I have all of my pasture mares marked with a code letter before their name like so: BHorse Name, 2gBHorse Name, and so on. That way, when I go to the Already In Pasture list, they're all in one place. :)

Does anyone keep track of a mare's protégés in her name?

Totally cool to move horses in and out. :)>-

Oh I want my girls to live in the pastures. It would just be great if it was easier to move them around within my pasture system, particularly as each generation herd expands and I start to be able to actually set up pastures for each line or stallion individually instead of breeding 20 to this boy and 15 to that. But I know everyone else has dealt with this..l might start adding a temporary one letter or number prefix to my mares in those situations to make it easy to sort them into a final pasture....

Ammit, I don't know if you said it over here, or on WHG, but didn't you once mention making the owners notes searchable? Is that still a viable thing?