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I have a 30 mare pasture for my favorite foundation mares. (Pretty much no reason other than that. I like them best and I want foals out of them most and having them on pasture gives a better chance at good ones)

Then my 100 mare pasture has a mix of 2G and 3G mares. Appy line gets priority on pasture space. Any space leftover is divided between my other lines according to who I like best.

I cull ruthlessly every season so I can rotate new mares in. Anything that doesn’t produce the way I wanted gets either spayed and auctioned, spayed and shown, or simply shuffled into a show or breeding barn. (If I can’t bare to spay her or she’s simply being retired because I have an intact successor and/or enough show foals from her)

I have 10 mare pasture that I rotate the pasture mares into to be bred so they all get the proper stallion. I don’t leave stallions in pastures.

I took advantage of the pasture sale when we switched from 2 month seasons to 1 month seasons and my barn exploded.

I now pretty much have at least 1 pasture per generation and the lower generations have 2 or 3 each. I have 2 main lines (KP and axiom/nexus) that are well developed and 2 lines that are either just getting started (Plaid) or are supplemental (horses produced from this line go into any of the other 3 pastures)

I empty my pastures every so often and refill them starting with the horses from each special line first (KP, axiom, and plaid) then fill in any gaps with the “plain Janes’s” (I mostly breed for Grullo with white patterns so most of my mares are flashy and not usually Just Grullo lol)

I do some culling before anything gets into my pastures (no inconsistency, must be Grullo and pass SBA) for the last year or so my Studs have also been culled for Ee or Dd genes and if I have a lot of extra mares that won’t fit into a pasture I start with the plain mares and cull any Ee or Dd mares. I also kick the older mares out until I have the younger mares fitting in.

On HJ2 I have not had the extra pastures and my intacts (which had bigger numbers than my HJ1 herd when I got the pastures) have floundered as I attempted to rotate mares through to give everyone a similar amount of time in the pasture (and usually ended up running them through on one day). I have about a dozen or less per generation at the higher gens as I just couldn’t give them enough time to out produce themselves and have intact foals. Luckily I have a really great daily bonus because I cull a lot of foals but keep everything and this summer during the anniversary sale I put a post up for pastures in exchange for HB’s and have spent several million and got enough pastures for most of my mares to be in and I’ve just got foundation and 2nd gens not in a pasture (but I have at least 100 of each in pastures so I’m not really worried about the ones not in.) when my higher gens out grow their 10 acre pastures I’ll reshuffle so that they have more space.

I only have a pasture for foundation mares. Although a pasture for 2nd and 3rd generations would be nice. I’m very specific on what gets bred in those generations. I would
Much rather hand breed them so I know who’s going to who.