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I'm not there yet but I find I have nowhere near enough horses at all to go through. I have a little over 60 horses and foals that I have. It's not enough to satisfy my need of just clicking, clicking, and lots of scrolling. It's why I don't really mind going through pages upon pages upon hundreds of pages just looking at horses for no reason just cause I want to. I get bored fairly easily if I don't have any new horses to look at.

I mainly need studs gone through first. Lol so I know who to sell

I usually set aside a 30 or 60 stall barn as my "sort" barn and work through them a few at a time. Organizing what you need to organize helps, lol. Start with a list of all the things you know need to get done, then organize by priority.

For example, I've determined my RH bootstraps are the thing I need to organize the most today. The barn only holds 60 (to keep my numbers down), the pasture holds 100, and I had an extra 50 or so floating around spaced out between about half a dozen barns because I was having trouble with space in December. I set aside a 30 stall barn, grabbed the first 30 I found, and threw them into it. From there, I culled out about a dozen, then ran around and scrounged up a dozen more. I sorted those, culled some more, and repeated until right now I'm only about ten or twenty short of everything fitting where it should with space for this year's pasture babies.

If you're like me and hate tedious tasks (like renaming 200 horses) you might also try enlisting the help of a friend. For the measly price of a starbucks, my bff is more than willing to go through and rename/tattoo things for me while we chat :P

And on the note of a prefix/suffix, I think it would be awesome if we could edit a horse's name from the barn page. It'd make it much easier. Maybe it's a feature Ammit can add one day. :x

I have been spending the past few days slowly organizing my mares. I bought a few pastures but didnt buy enough for my non-foundation breeding mares. I'm still not done organizing those mares, maybe one more day. Then I need to start going through and cull my colts. I need to put my show horse overflow in the new show barn. So - I probably have another week of work left. Then I need to start working on my other 3 accounts. I'd like to get my main account done and 100% organize because I add to the choas and breed again.

oh wow...haha I don't have nearly that many. I have about 300-400 foundation mares I think and 143 non-foundation mares. I'm actually a bit surprised I only have 22 colt/stallions that are not foundations. So, that wont take me long to cull at all lol

I wish I could contain myself but I know I'm going to breed all 300/400 mares at once because I like to see the babies =))

It may also be that if you have that many, you need to take a look at your lines? Are there any you can't bear to let go of, and any that you're not enthused about any longer? The ones that don't hold excitement for you may just need to be purged entirely! What if you told yourself you had to get rid of half your intact horses? Which would go first? Are there any lines you can combine to cut the number of horses?

I put my snowflake and KP together because I already had several with both, and I was able to cut total numbers of snf/kp from about 200 to somewhere around 80. I mean, I still have a few non-KP snowflakes and non-snf KPs, but those are the favorites that are sticking around a bit longer, and it really decreased the amount of breeding I had to keep up with. Look for any lines you can combine. Fantasy genes especially can be fun to combine.

You also have soooo many barns. I think that should honestly be your number 1 step. You have five or six lines of show barns - and from what I'm seeing there are a lot of 15, 30, 60 stall barns. Save up, buy a 210 or a 1k stall, dump all the little barns into it, sell back the little barns, repeat. Show horses don't really need to be sorted and subdivided, aside from maybe one barn of no-shows and the rest shows. Maybe keep a couple 60 or 90 stall barns on hand for sorting other horses. That'll make your barn list look a lot less overwhelming. Yes, you lose a couple IVs by selling back, but I think that's a loss you can afford, pardon my saying so, and one that will provide you more peace of mind when you look at your barns.

Here we go, just counted - 79 barns with names that say show, alters, or spays, or say "sort" or are unnamed but hold mostly snips.

Here's the rundown:
1000 x 5
210 x 17
120 x 12
90 x 7
60 x 5
30 x 18
15 x 15

There are quite a few that are not full - a couple 30s that had no more than 5 horses, a 210 that had I think 15 horses in it. You also have a good handful of barns that are named for something else but are empty.

Your total stalls dedicated to show horses (by barn title): 11,585.

Your total altered horses: 9,476.

You have 2,109 excess stalls. You can sell back every 15 stall show barn you have and not even feel it :P

Keep:
1000 x 5 (5000)
210 x 17 (3,570)
120 x 12 (1,440)

That's 10,010 stalls, 500 spare from the show horses you have.

15 x 4IVs per 15 stall = 60 IVs
18 x 8IVs per 30 stall = 144 IVs
5 x 16IVs per 60 stall = 80 IVs
7 x 24IVs per 90 stall = 168 IVs

Use the 452 IVs gained towards a new 1000 stall show barn. That's 5.6 mil towards the new barn, which should hopefully be enough depending on your perecentage you pay, or at least get you close.

Alternatively, also sell back a couple of the 120s for 32 IVs apiece as well.

That will clear out at least 45 of your barns and about five lines of text, from the looks of things. :)

OMG! Hidden you have so many gorgeous stallions! Their are some gorgeous w8, Sabino, Frame, White Spotted, some beautiful WW's, Nexus, Watercolor, Plaid, Thunderstruck, Ice, brindles, RS's, KP's, Axioms, all in between, and livers! I especially love your three Watercolor horses that I think the first two had closed ice genes in them. One being 2g rainbow washout and the other royal. I also loved your Watercolor 2yo boy that was green, purple, and white cause he reminded me so much of the Joker! I mean he was glorious! I also saw your Hidden Stars dude so uh I'm pretty sure he's not available. If I had the barn space and the hbs and all (if any) of the closed genes I would so grab them all that were available! (The sad disadvantages of being a small barn.)

That's my problem too...only I get very jealous...like I am right now.

How many snipped ones can you sell? I'd definitely like a few this month then maybe a lot next month if I can get a new barn in time. As I'm only breeding intact and snipped horses and only buying snipped horses I should be able to buy a lot in the next few months and past.

I have Wayyyyy too many 2g mares, like 90 breeding age alone, I need to cull. But I am planning on stopping breeding foundations in a few months, so no more replacements, and sometimes I don't get any intact foals of higher generations at all... so the numbers are good for that... but yikes!

I did this in Y65 on both of my accounts, and I have not looked back! There are some I wish I'd kept, but the process was pretty simple. Since I keep my horses in barns organized by color. Since I breed for color since I breed true to life Thoroughbred colors.

I used my favorite feature which is the Herd List, first sorted that by Gender and got rid of the spays and geldings. Then sorted that by color and then by paper and separated each to its own category so I wasn't getting confused.

My first goal was to make sure that any colors not allowed in the real life breed were not in my herds. So, the Jockey Club allows most of the base colors Bay, Brown, Black, Chestnut, Gray and Palamino/Cream. They do not however have any lines that test for dun and Tobiano is NOT allowed. So that was my first round of culling and snipping.

Any horse I was throwing into auction I put into a designated barn, because you can put an entire barn in the auction saving time.

Next I compared stallions. If I had more than one of the same color.. for example, black I compared yellows to yellows and reds to reds by their points. Keeping the mid to high stallions while snipping the rest or sending them to the auction barn.

Once the stallions were completed. Mares were next. I made sure to keep enough variations of mares both point and paper wise so that I have some options for my boys. The mares sadly were easy. Then like before the ones I wanted stayed where they were and the ones I didn't went to the auction barn.

Lastly I did the foals and the show ponies.

I cherry picked through my Show ponies. I kept as many of my higher earning horses as I could, but I also wanted to make sure I had enough to replace those that were getting older.

Once I was done I sent the whole barn to auction and after it was done was able to reorganize my barns completely.

It takes a lot of will power, trust me, but I was getting tired of not having anywhere to put anybody.

Now my Primary Barn is completely empty unless I'm breeding foals that haven't been moved or I've created horses cleared a pasture.

I have snipped a few pages of studs. I have several horses I am gonna auction Sunday(if I can get them entered) . Coming slowly

I have a hard time snipping beautiful studs that paper and test very well. But I know alot I wont use. I have 7 pages of 2g studs. I def dont need all them

1938560 2g royal rainbow

2532430 2g rr

3329373 2g STS Snw

3451750 2g nx

3507869 2g nxw wtcl

1445602 2g watercolor

Hv 2g watercolor splash

Hv 2g rainbow six

Oh boy, you really do have some beauties! You know, one thing that's helped me has been requiring boys out of C/yellows to comp test AGA an experf to stay intact, and boys out of B/reds to paper A to stay intact (still working on purging but it's gotten rid of several). 2Gs don't even get tested against their sires anymore, because superior to sire can be a relatively small amount of increase compared to the experf/A benchmark (which usually means about a 5% jump). Then also comparing the boys to each other and only allowing max of two per gen per line to stay intact.

all ones i am listing will either sell(make an offer) or I will snip at end of the month- maybe sooner

Oooohhh! Remember I'm definitely interested! There were some absolute beauties in there! Some of my favorites you've already listed.

I will sell him:) just send me who u like

Sounds good:)