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LCorona001 · Sep 28, 2019 12:36 AM

How do you guys plan breedings? Do you write it down? Who wants to help me plan some breedings ;)

Maribo · Sep 28, 2019 1:59 AM

I keep all my boys of breeding age in a notepad (on the computer, not an actual notepad). Sorted by generation, then by line. When I am breeding I keep the notepad and the search side by side on the screen, and search my mares by line and generation, and then I add them under the stud I want to use. When I have gone through all the mares of a line/gen, I will pull up the studs and breed all the mares to each of the stud (its faster to do it through the studs page, than to open every mare to breed them).

Bandit1119 · Sep 28, 2019 2:38 AM

I used to use a spreadsheet.

Each tab I had a different generation. I also listed any straws or eggs from my lab.

I’d go through and pair up everyone and make a master list. Then I would use the sort button to sort all the pairs by stud name and breed each studs mares alphabetically to make it easier to find them on the drop down menu on the studs page.

Now though I have to many so they all get tossed into pastures of their generation and line and bred to whichever of the 1-3 studs are in with them.

Taliesin · Sep 28, 2019 3:26 AM

Each of my horses gets a prefix on their names for which line and generation they go in. SN2 is second gen snowflake line, LV1 is first gen liver, etc. This makes is really easy to dump all the ones with the same prefix in a pasture or find them in a drop down menu. I only have one or a few studs per line per generation, so I just match prefixes. If I want to do something special with a certain horse, I mark that down in my Google doc, and then I consult that first

WhiteValley · Sep 28, 2019 5:32 AM

I use spreadsheets. One tab for each generation. Stallions and mares on different sheets. Each horse's name has a link to the horse's page in the game (I was very proud of myself when I worked out how to do that!) Colour coding for horses that may not make it through rollover. Column for eggs/straws. Another column for genetic coding with potential lethal genes in red so that I can watch out for possible problems in breeding. I think I'm a nerd! :-B

LEAcres · Sep 28, 2019 7:13 AM

I have a stallion barn.. I typically try to keep 2-3 colts from each stallion I have.. then do rotational breeding seasons unless I get something from the previous season that I want to try for again

Forestshadow · Sep 28, 2019 7:17 AM

I have a stallion roster that I keep on paper. The roster is organized by generation. Each generation has a minimum of 9 stallions. Some generations have more than 9 stallions because there's more than 1 pasture for that particular generation.
Let's say I have 9 boys for the foundation pasture. The roster for that generation has 3 per season, and I rotate the boys. A set of 3 this season, 2nd set of 3 next season, final set of 3 for the 3rd month before the 1st set of boys are used again in the 4th month. That way, I make sure that all my boys get some hot dates and a chance to prove their quality.

Other than that, I just toss the boys into pasture and click breed. I don't plan breedings anymore, don't have time for that anymore.

ConfluenceStable · Sep 28, 2019 9:31 AM

I wing it! I sometimes even remember to check for lethal genes! :))

kgstable · Sep 28, 2019 3:36 PM

@Bambi207 and @Natalya1917 I do the same thing! I match generations with lines and I also have a pasture that I test a few of my studs in to see if I get the color outcome. In my pasture I have so many different colors of mares, I try to keep a variety.

paradoxphoenix · Sep 28, 2019 5:11 PM

I also sort of wing it.

My foundation mares already have a specific stallion that matches their line. Ones with more than one stallion for their line, I just go with whoever I feel like.

For my lined mares, take a group out of my primary pasture into my 10 horse pasture then go to the barn that matches the line I’m breeding, hit “view in search” and browse my stallions. I just pick whoever strikes me. I also have certain go-to stallions that I use for 90% of the mares that match the line.

Keeping the lines straight is easy because they’re divided by color.

Forestshadow · Sep 29, 2019 7:57 AM

I don't breed for very specific colors. I just chuck the boys into pasture and see what I get. However, I do require that the stallions that I keep have specific genes from their sire lines. Like my WW sire line - all the stallions must have the Wrong Warped gene, and so on.

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