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It hurts hard to snip your boys, especially when they are borderline or you don't already have a stallion for that line. Just remember, keeping inferior colts will only mean you're breeding inferior broodmares for your future generations, so when you get a better colt to come along, your mares may not be up to snuff!

The comparison test is my best friend. I have a serious love hate relationship with it. But it took me a good 9 months of playing to get serious about breeding only for the top quality I could get. I just slowly stepped that way over the months (well, after the first 3 or 4 months when I basically ran around after all the shiny ponies like a border collie on crack).

I'm super proud of you Hunter! If I was on the fence about a colt, I tried to be governed by quality and really hard nosed about snipping. Once everything had been snipped for quality, I often found that nothing I had left was really the colors I was looking for in the line they'd come from, but a lot of times I could fit them into another line which meant I could mix things up a bit. I also was/am not adverse to using a couple of GMTs to tweak a colt, especially if he only missed one or two things I was looking for. It makes for pretty expensive stallions but I always try to take advantage of Ammits sales on GMTs, which helps!

Colour--when I had as many intact colts as you do I would make a chart, listing names and the special genes my colts had that I wanted in my lines (Pearl, DP, Satin, patterns, etc). From that I could sort them into groups for each line and pick the top one or two from that group and snip the rest.

Cheers

Yea I had a hard time with some of mine still. Buying horses for my tall RH goal I ended up with an A 2G, but he only has splash. I wasn't in a position to GMT him at the time. And that messes up the few 3G studs I have too that are still B papered.

All my uneven horses to make show ponies have to be A (or star) and absolutely gorgeous!