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Brandybrookes · Mar 6, 2021 2:24 PM

So ive decided i really need to work on cleaning out the barns. I have soooo many stallions that are just taking up space and are not even what im breeding for. So i decided to use the search engine to sort them in age groups and slowly making progress. Some auctioned off or up for sale and anything under 10 that i figure wasnt breeding quality i gelded.
I have no clue if a horse over its pt scores would benefit better in showing at that point.
I feel like the process is going to be a long but needed one. Eventually opening another show barn and then having an easier selection of stallions to choose from.
How do you all sort yours out when it becomes a mass clutter?

Silverstar · Mar 6, 2021 2:42 PM

Ahh. I try to sort my stallions before it gets the that point. I don’t always succeed.

Personally I try to keep all my stallions in a 15 or 30 stall barn. I try to keep 1-2 foundation stallions per line. Right now I have 3 for one line and am at a loss of how to breed them all. Second generation has to paper up, then it goes down to genetics and benchmark on who I keep. I try to keep about 2 stallions per generation per line. Or enough stallions to breed the mares I have for that generation.

My general SOP is I do all testing right away before looking at their pages, then I do all testing and geld any that don’t meet that generation’s requirements. From there I open pages and geld anything that doesn’t test aga my benchmark for that generation. Then I geld any that don’t match my genetic goals sometimes I switch the last two. Once I have a potential new boy I wait for him to age up, If I haven’t used a stallion by the time he’s 6, I don’t like him enough to leave him as a stud and geld him.

Forestshadow · Mar 7, 2021 9:39 AM

I keep 9 foundation stallions, other generations have a max of 12 stallions. One per sire line. They have to be tested superior to their sire, have the appropriate papering for their generation, and have a fully tested superior to parent pedigree. If a particular sire line has LE genes, then the sire line stallion must have said genes. IE, I have a Watercolor line going, so said boy must have Watercolor from his Watercolor sire plus whatever else he inherited from his parents.

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