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In the past few days I've been going through and renaming all my horses with a number according to their generation (1 for foundations, 2 for second gens, ect.) and a letter for their paper level (C, B, ect.) So before all the names of my intact horses, they have prefixes like 1C, 2B, 3A, ect. All my show horses say CWS in front of their names. Previously I had my breeders with just the numbers for generation and not paper level (1G, 2G, ect.) but recently I've been thinking that it would be nice to have the paper level in the name. So I'm tackling it - it is a big project but gives me something to do when I'm bored.

I tried to do that ages ago, and it just got to be too much work. The Tattoos work better, in my opinion.

I decided to change my barn name entirely and I'm now changing them to have Bellwether at the start of their name.

Bellwether Thrill Me

I use a suffix on my horses that tells me their color, patterns, Special genes and their generation. It means I have to name all of my breeding horses. It also means I can tell from a barn what pasture my horses belong in without having to search for my tattoos or generation numbers. This makes moving horses in and out of pastures really easy! But, it’s super time consuming and it means my horse names can’t be too long because the suffix is important. I also keep running into issues because I end up using the same letters for different genes. Like D at the very beginning of a suffix means the horse had DP, but if it comes a letter or so in, it means the horse is dun. Capital M means the horse has Kit M, little m means they have Macchiato....I confuse myself sometimes!