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I’m rigt there with you

I am having the same problem myself.

I amin the same boat... rush, rush, rush. :( glad to know I am not the only one. But still..

I've been overwhelmed for quite some time, but have decided not to stress out about it. This game year, I pulled the stallions out of a lot of the pastures on this server so I can, I hope, do a better job with the HaJ 2 foals, though I'm not sure I'm doing it even so. Next game year, I'll switch servers to concentrate on.

I get a lot of my fun helping answer questions for new players, anyway, so breeding sometimes seems like a sideline to my "play."

I noticed i had almost 200 breeding mares, nothing was organized and i didnt play because it felt more like a chore not a game.
I started with sorting my groups into different barns. Then i looked at my goal overall - do i want a certain color or am i going for quality? There was my first cull.
Then i looked at my studs and mares. If a colt wasn't being used but he was quality, i sold him (if he didnt fit the program). My broods i was far pickier. I looked at all their foals, what they had been bred to, and if I thought she showed progression in her lineage, i kept her.
If not, I sold her or I added her to the show string.

The last thing i did was I culled my show horses. Yes, i culled them. Hindsight maybe wasnt smart because the season after more than 3/4 of my show barn died of old age and i went from a 200k daily show bonus to just 25k. Nevertheless, i culled any lower PT horse, any leveled off (in a bad spot) but of good age horse, or any older horse with no points and at a low show level. For example a 12pt gelding that was 8 years old showing at 2W i would sell.


Thats at least how i got wraps and made it a but more fun and manageable. Perhaps it will help you ^.^

Best of luck and have a safe holiday!

I'm having the same problem, so now I've been going through a mercilessly culling stallions and mares! I'm culling by color, pt, paper level, consistency, whatever I can think of to take the "work" out of breeding and put the fun back in. Now I've been trying to focus on breeding my fancy foundation boys and the rest get bred when I have the time. I figure what I paid real money for or spent a lot of gmts on are going to be priority and the rest don't matter nearly as much!

I've been having the same issue as well. My barn isn't as big as some of yours, but I'm still struggling to get everything bred. I don't even know when I'll have time to get everything named! I do and I don't like the new breeding season. It definitely has some benefits, but it is very difficult to make sure everything is bred. I pulled so many eggs, but I won't have time to do anything with them this season.