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Timber September 2016
I've seen several individuals talking about breeding lines being uneven/even. What does that mean in terms that a brain dead pumpkin can understand?


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First generation horses are Foundations. Their pedigree will look like this:


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Second generation horses (2G) will have 2 Foundation horses as parents (1G + 1G = 2G):


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Third generation horses (3G) will have 2 Second generation horses as parents (2G + 2G = 3G):


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Uneven generations mix up the numbers (2G + 1G = ?):


Cheers September 2016
To expand on this slightly, breeding evenly or unevenly is completely up to personal player preference. It can be advantageous to a player looking to start a show herd to breed their foundation mares to really high quality *Star papered high generation stallions, for instance, and altering the resulting foals for your show herd. In general you could expect the resulting foals to have a much higher PT (Performance Test) score, which will be reflected in training better and longer, thus advancing up the show levels faster and reaching higher show classes than an evenly bred gen 2 foal would. (If you choose to do this, please make sure the owner of the stallion is fine with this first. Some players will even put a top quality stallion up for you for a very low stud fee if they know is what you are doing).

On the other hand, you may find that breeding unevenly is frustrating because you will get a higher proportion of spayed and gelded foals in the free testing. This is because (in general) there is a wide disparity in the breeding quality of the two parents, meaning more foals will be significantly worse than one or the other parent.

If you hope to breed foals for sale or use as public breeders, you may find that unevenly bred horses are not as desirable to some players. Some are quite fanatic about having a perfectly even pedigree, while others may be somewhat more lax and still others don't care at all...as I say, it is completely up to your personal preference and how you want to play the game.

By the way, Eras have nothing to do with even breeding. They have to do with leader boards on the breeders clubs, and are a way to make an even playing field between older, established players and young, new players with new herds.