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As for how many mates / stud I usually have 10-50/ stud although I have more studs than I use in a year. Sometimes they get rotated out using the same group of mares other times the studs get overlooked continuously

My primary account uses (mostly) names, words, and phrases associated with stars. I started out with celestial stars (think Milly Way, Eclipse) but realized I’d run out. So now it includes actors, musicians, movie and song titles and quotes. Some references are more subtle, for example “Kitten Whiskers” which pulls from The Sound of Music. Or “Treehorn,” based on a quote from the movie The Big Lebowski. My second account uses Disney characters, actors (including voice actors), titles, songs, etc. some are inside jokes/comments based on my own Disney trips.

I am suddenly slightly embarrassed that I call my lines literally what they are: Black Draft, Silver, Nacre, etc.

Of course, I am the girl who gave her childhood bear the unique name of "Teddy", so perhaps no one should be surprised. :D

(First generation horses I name after song lyrics, lines from plays, or what I see out of my window. Then I try to make clever combos in the later generations.)

I have named a champagne line Toast of the Town in HaJ1 and Cup O Kindness here, a gray line Misty Meadows, a bay dun line Dunedin Bay. Each of those references the color for the line in some way.

On HaJ1, my Chinchilla line is called Bad Gerbil's Mushroom Patch because another player offered a small prize for lines named with badger puns, which caused me to name the foundation stallion Bad Gerbil.

Song names are a good way to go. Then you can name future foals with songs from the same artist.

I have a Lord of the Rings line who I name from an online Tolkien elvish dictionary.

One of my watercolor stallions is Monets Garden so his foals get a lot of flower names or names of his paintings.

Mostly what I’m looking for, particularly for my stallions but also for my mares, is a two word name that will give me lots of options.

One of my old boys is State of Origin. It’s a rugby league competition here in Australia but those two words, State and Origin, you can do so much with! State as state like California or Queensland, State as emotional atmosphere, Origin as beginning, Origin as where something came from, Origin as an anatomical term....

I do a lot of naming sitting in front of the tv and using words I hear, or with my music playlist open and naming from song titles or lyrics, or sitting in front of the bookshelf and using book or chapter titles.

I’ve also had Harry Potter themed show herds—character names and chapter titles.

Really, anything you’re into outside of the game can give you ways to name! You just need something with a wide enough sweep that you can get lots of names. Video games, music, movies and books are easiest I think, but there are lots of options.

My Mushroom line is going to be named for mathematicians, physicists and equations that use mu in them (the Greek alphabet character).

Lol! That’s awesome, DragonRun! Keep on scratching, Itchy Dog!