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Im with DejaRea on that one. Unless its only there to add a few genes on the lines I'm breeding based on color (easily replaced colors still get culled below 9.60) that's the same standard I use for now. As my lines increase in quality I'll boost that up to 9.70 and so on. The only horses that get exempt are my RS creates and when I can anything that I'll eventually GMT. Hope this helps a bit.

I would still use 9.5 or 9.6 as the minimum with AFPT as for PT. If a mare is throwing foals with low enough PT to drop her foal average down below that I wouldn't use her when trying to better a line. Unless you rarely breed below a blue or A foal then I would raise the standard for culling.

I would just start by culling the ones with the lowest AFPT, and just keep going until you think you have culled enough mares!

BTW There are no stupid questions about this complex game.

I think @Cheers has a table for culling by AFPT as a rough guide :)

I got my table based on culling the lowest I think it was 20% from my pastures by generation. Mostly what I’m looking to do is have enough room to move in replacement mares.

In general, Ammit has said that a jump of 0.5points of PT per generation is a good goal. I personally pick a number and stick to it for my entire herd at that level (so all my foundations need to hit a certain AFPT regardless of whether they’re ExPerf or normal create, regardless of whether they’ve got a PT of 0.6 or 10.4). I know some people require 0.5 above each individual mare’s PT but that requires more thinking than I can give to my big herd!

I think you should start by seeing what your AFPTs are in a given herd (remember that if you have the premium upgrade, you have to open each mare’s page to update her AFPT after each foal is born and tested) and then plan to cull sort of 10-30% off the bottom depending on your needs. That will help you set an AFPT for yourself. Remember to compare apples to apples—similar quality of stallion, same amount of pasture bonus, minimum of 3 foals documented—for your mares so you’re not unfairly culling mares with no pasture bonus against mares with multiple foals at full pasture bonus for instance.

Like others have mentioned, I have a few mares hanging around with AFPTs lower than my cut off, usually because I can’t get another mare with their bloodlines or they have genes I’m trying to get into my herd. While the mare may be allowed to hang around her foals are culled to the same standards as all my others so basically I’m hoping to get lucky with something that stays intact even though I know she’s not really up to quality.

Some players will cull every intact foal of a mare that they cull for low AFPT. I don’t. I have had some mares throw a single outstanding foal amid several dismal ones, I have had others where it doesn’t take long at all for me to cull a mare’s entire line. I choose to not pre-empt that decision but it can be another way to cull out excess stock if you’re drowning in it!

I second what Cheers said about culling foals from mares that aren't so good, I don't either. Each generation has it's own standards, and if the foal/s has already passed it was probably good enough. Some sub-par mares have actually given me some good foals if breed often enough to good stallions and when in the pasture!