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Aww congrats! I remember getting my first *star boy.

Congratulations!

Congratulations! Just wait til you get a *Gold at 4G - it feels amazing. :D Just goes to show your program is improving, I'm so happy for you!

Congrats!
Discipline when it comes to quality is a really hard thing to achieve in this game because you'll get babies that are so pretty and you want to keep them all but you know deep down that they won't fit in your program..
When I started being strict I had to do SBA, papering and snipping if they didn't paper the way I wanted them to before even looking at their pages and comparison testing and snipping if need be before their pictures loaded in order for me to not be compelled to keep them intact!

Thank you everyone! It really helps!

@Sharayah, yes this feels like my Biggest Achievement on the game so far and I have been playing for about a year and a half lol!

@Forestshadow & @Bambi207, I have been working on having discipline and being strict to try and improve quality, though I will admit that I may have fallen to a pretty face and kept a few AGA here and there lol. I probably need to clear them out and keep only the Sup, But they all must pass SBA and I do Comp test them too! Right now my lines are in general: Yellow/Red for foundation, at least Red/B for 2G(no yellows), A/Blue & Red/B for 3G(only if they are superior reds), and Only Superior A/Blue for my 4G so far. I don't know how my 5G will look but I am certainly going to require Gold/Star for 6G, when ever I get there! I may need to try out your method though to help not keep all the pretty babies lol!

Thanks, that's good to know! I thought I was legging a bit with my horses. Lol, the ones that don't pass still make pretty show ponies at least!

Yeah, pastures do really help and I'm behind on getting any more of them. I need more pastures sooner than later for my growing 4G & 5G & a pasture for the beginnings of my fantasy lines but at the same time need to save for more barns! I guess I will get it all setup eventually, just not a lot of money at the moment. I still have to hand breed most of my barns, so far its doing ok though!

Thank you for the encouragement DarkFrost!

Yeah, definitely not always so easy to do! I certainly feel it when some of my prettiest don't test sup or you get one that even papered up but sadly didn't get the genes you wanted. I think it's actually time for me to go though again and do a cull lol, should be fun(as you try not to give in to the pretty ponies or cry as you snip them)!

I’m mostly working on my second and third gen with one or two fourth gen here and there. I’m working on slowly collecting mares since I have quite a few stallions. Since I’m still collecting mares at the moment, I do a sort of compromise. I keep all superior fillies intact. When it comes to the as good as fillies, I keep them intact if they are consistent, paper higher than their dams, or have a ridiculously awesome gene combo that I had an extremely low chance of getting!

As my herd grows I will slowly get more and more strict with the AGA fillies. Right now an AGA filly needs to have one of those three requirements to stay intact. In a few months I’ll probably shift to two out of three requirements, then eventually, when I have a really great broodmare herd, an AGA filly will need to have all three requirements for me to keep her intact :)

Also, @HorseAngel, maybe this will help:

When I cull, I don’t look at the images, only the genetics. I cull the ones who are genetically similar by keeping the horses that have a more diverse genotype.

In other words, say I have two chocolate palomino 2G mares of the same quality. Mare A isn’t really all that special. She’s a het DP chocolate palomino with no agouti genes, white genes, modifier genes, or anything else like that, just a plain chocolate palomino.

Mare B shares the same phenotype as mare A, but mare B is het nd1, het brown, and het PATN1. Mare B’s genotype is more diverse than mare A’s, and will give me more genes to work with when breeding. So I would keep mare B and cull mare A :)

Wow! That's a lot of great advice! Thanks so much @Nightphoenix (and @Forestshadow)!

When I first started, I just had a big general herd of horses that I liked and kinda thrown them all together (they still make up most of my primary herd lol) and went from there. Now I have actual color goals and know more about what I really want, so I am going to be shifting everything eventually and I have been adding more Appy to it already (which I really love) too! I have a small DP Pearl line that I started, though everything is still kinda together(pasture space problems) but going ok. At first i kept the plain ones and AGA mares too because I didn't really have any brood mares yet(curse of the colts most times lol). Now I will be slowly culling most of them! I ten toward consistent vs inconsistent as well. I will have too certainly try that, I think it will help a bit! :)

Lol, pretty much the same thing happens to all my colts because I don't have the funds to GMT them all to mares! ;)