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I let my pastures do their own thing so I keep my mares in there all the time (generally just mares that aren't showing well anyways). I move stallions over once I'm done breeding for that season, pick a few, and shove them in the pastures so they generally have 15+ days if I start breeding early. Not sure if stallions get perks for the pastures but I try to rotate regardless. I am breeding paper to paper so theoretically, I should be getting a decent % of keepers but not this season. I just started comparison testing two seasons ago so not all of my breeding stock is comp tested unfortunately and obviously can't do much about my foundations. I try to keep my foundations Herd Helpers and Specials but even my Top Notch Producers didn't give me squat this year lol. I do Strict Breeding Advice on everyone, even my bootstraps...it's just habit at this point haha. Maybe I'm doing it wrong :/

Whenever I have a bad season I just shrug it off because there's always next season plus it means more show horses.

I find myself loaded down with boys ALOT ; i have become really good with the snippers lately and usually keep those for my show herd ; its harder in the begining when you dont have as much room ; and then its harder in the middle when you keep running OUT of room lol. you ll get there

I have never had that bad of luck with foundation or 2g horses. Everyone plays the game differently because we all have different goals. I’m assuming that your current goal is getting more babies to pass testing.

You said you breed mostly by paper levels, that works for Foundations and second generation, but after awhile it doesn’t work anymore because the higher the paper levels go the bigger the range within those paper levels get, and the larger range of score/papers those horses can throw. Using generation as well as papers helps make sure that you are breeding similar quality horses to each other.

That’s why breeders who bootstrap don’t BA that particular line. There is a large gap between the breeding abilities of their horses. Yellow mares to star studs and the foal papers can be anywhere in the middle. To a smaller extent the same is true of each paper levels. An A papered foundation stallion bred to a 4th generation Blue papered mare most likely won’t produce a foal that passes BA let alone SBA, they might but odds aren’t in their favor. While a 3rd or 4th gen A papered stallion would have a much better chance of a foal passing BA with that mare, or even a 4g star stallion.

Have you taken advantage of Herzeloyde's gifting?
https://www.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/41800/new-member-let-me-give-you-150-000-hbs#Item_153