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Your Primary Pasture page will tell you how many breedable mares you have in all your pastures (if you have more than one) and what it will cost to breed them.

My Primary Pasture shows this information:

You have 46 breedable mares in your pastures
It will cost an estimated 23000 hbs to breed them

You can add horses that are one year under breeding age to a pasture so the mares can accumulate the pasture bonus. Stallions do not acquire a pasture bonus, so their breeding ability stays the same whether they are in the pasture 5 minutes or 30 days.

The pasture bonus is something mares accrue over thirty days of being in a pasture and unbred. The closer to 30 days they get, the closer they get to the full bonus, but a partial bonus will apply for any time under 30 days as well.

The pasture bonus means mares will produce foals closer to the top range of the mare's breeding ability. The production of foals and breeding ability is all hidden, with few ways of assessing it fully, so I cannot really explain here, but I can say that my pastures where the mares have the full bonus are more likely to give me foals that remain intact through all testing, have high PT scores and the colts tend to paper higher.

Different people use the pasture bonus in different ways. Some barely use it at all, preferring to keep their mares in the show ring. Some, like me, invest lots of money on lots of pastures and try to keep most of their broodmares in pastures at all times. Some find a middle ground. There is no right or wrong way!

Oh, and yes, breeding automatically also still costs 500 hbs/mare.

Here is an example of the effect of the breeding range on foal showing ability.

A player, quite a few years ago now, bred perfect foundations together quite a few times. The resulting foals had PT scores that stretched from 8.9 at the low end and 10.4 on the high end.

I'm not sure if you will be able to reach this post on the old forum, but if you can, you might find it interesting to read the whole thing.

http://www.kinetocoredesign.com/showthread.php?38512-PT-Scores-Showing-vs-Breeding

Marking this for all the useful info