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My plan was to start snipping and have show ponies, once my herd gets a little more robust. If the mare is producing babies I really like, I'd keep her, otherwise I'd snip and ship her to the show barn for the new (and hopefully better!) generations to come :)

Never! Lmao.

I’ve played since 2006. I don’t always create new foundations all the time but I’ve found that when I don’t its so much harder to continue progressing to higher generations since each generation is harder to produce intact offspring. Stopping the foundation blood will reduce the number of higher gens you have a chance at breeding.

For a while I didn’t create any foundations but last November I looked at my herd of breeders and it had dwindled down to a handful of each generation getting smaller and smaller as the older horses of each generation were aging out faster than I could breed replacements.

Throughout December and January I went on a huge create spree on each game and now have 3 groups of mares that I pasture with 2 foundation studs each.

Now looking at my horses I’m seeing more improvement in the size of my generational pools for 2nd-6th Gens and my lonely 7th Gen 12 year old mare is finally starting to have companions in her barn that are breedable this season, she was 10 before I bred colts that have passed testing but they’re still only 2 so in 8 seasons she’s just sat there (I don’t bootstrap or breed unevenly even if it’s the only available option. I’ll wait instead) I found 3 straws for her eggs I’ve collected through the years but they are all altered.

Never! What they said ^^

Plus, I think it's more fun breeding my foundations, as I get more intacts. AND I can add new shinies :D

With generations how do i figure it out is it like dam and sire are gen 1 and so on? Can any one explain it if im wrong?

When you click on the "family" tab for each horse you see a pedigree. A foundation or created horse will have a pedigree that looks like this.

http://www.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=6268569

Ok so like parents are gen 1 and the baby is gen 2?

Thrid gen should look like this

http://www.huntandjump.com/full_pedigree.php?horseid=6895213

Yup, that's third gen. :)

Also I tend to stick with a few foundation studs and switch out the higher Gen studs more often since I get a ton of intact boys I just keep upgrading who I use depending on what they have to offer more than the previous stud for that generation and when my older foundation starts to get close to aging out I search for what other new genes I’d like to introduce to the pot.