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For me, I mostly use in house stuff just so I can say I started this line from the beginning, and it is easier to know whom I am going to breed to whom rather than searching. If I don't have a line going that a particular horse would fit into, or it I am trying to find older stuff, I will search out into the community.

I am starting to move away from the only-in house breeding stuff when I have time to search out for other stallions, but time is always a constraint. I am also much more likely to breed to outside mares than to outside stallions. I don't usually put my horses up for stud/brood because they are just like thousands of others out there, and only special to me. :) If I do stick them up there then I really don't care who uses them or how, that's beyond my control and not an issue to me.

I personally love the pasture breeding. It is way faster for breeding, and it's cheaper. I can search for horses in the line I want and open a new tab and add the mares and stallions, hit the button, move them to the barn - test, sort and done! Then move on to the next group - or groups. They usually don't stay in the pasture for very long, but sometimes I forget to move the mares out and it is a nice surprise for next season.