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Forestshadow · Oct 1, 2017 10:04 AM

With the pasture email pointing out the best foal for the whole breeding season regardless of generation, do you more experienced players have any advice on figuring out which foal is the best in each generation? I breed my pastures by generation.

For example, my 4th gen pasture produced a Star colt and 3 Gold fillies, but I don't know which one is the best. Is there a way to figure it out? Or is it something that only time will tell on?

SandyCreekAcres · Oct 1, 2017 10:57 AM

For the colt, comparison testing against his brothers and half-brothers, if he has any, should work. For the fillies, probably comparing their average AFPT's when they've had a few foals will have to do.

Forestshadow · Oct 1, 2017 11:33 AM

Oh ok, the Star colt is the only intact colt his sire has to date. The Gold papered girls could be better, though. Like you said, time will tell on those.

However, I've had several colts from the same generation test AGA each other. Those are the most annoying to deal with. Generally, I want to keep 1 colt. So do I pick the one I like the best and hope for the best?

Stone Silo Farm · Oct 1, 2017 7:32 PM

To be honest I've stopped paying attention to the emails that indicate which foal is best. Often enough it's obvious even without the results (like there's one *Star in the pasture and a bunch of As and Blues) but even when it's not (like your example with one *Star or two, and/or a handful of *Golds) the difference between them is, in low generations, minor enough that it doesn't matter. And then when it gets to generations where ALL the intact foals are *Stars or *Golds, comparison testing is the win for boys and all the girls have to be judged via their AFPTs later anyway.

Once you narrow your colt crop to superior to sire and otherwise as good as each other then for the most part they really are about as good as each other. The difference is not going to be so vast that you'll somehow sabotage your next generation by only keeping one intact.

Forestshadow · Oct 1, 2017 11:40 PM

So basically, as long as I keep my lines progressing, I'll be fine.

Kintara · Oct 2, 2017 3:31 AM

I just read the previous topic, so my answer wasn't relevant and deleted! Ignore me.. :)

Stone Silo Farm · Oct 2, 2017 5:21 AM

As long as you keep your lines progressing, you'll be fine. And we've got plenty of tools for making sure lines progress. The best pasture baby email can be amusing for inhouse knowledge but at the end of the day it isn't the best thing to use as your benchmark for success.

There's always some random fluctuation in breeding. Always. I've had numerous years where my "best pasture foal" was a colt who was only AGA his sire. All that did was make gelding the whole batch easy.

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