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How do you know when you have reached the breeding cap? I have a BS herd and for the past 3 months or more I have not had any superior foals. I flushed eggs from all of my mares for a few seasons in a row. Used all their eggs with my best stallion, none of those foals tested superior, just aga or worse. I thought maybe my stallion wasn’t high enough to bump the foals to superior, despite him being superior to my mares. So I double boosted a colt to be superior to him threw all of my mares in the pasture and waited. They had a full or pretty close to full bonus last month and a full bonus this month. So this was his second season on those mares and still no SBA foals. I was going to try the BOP foal a 1-4% boost and seeing if that would make a difference. But that’s spendy, I know if I give a 5% boost they will test superior.

I just want to figure it out, because if I’ve reached the cap I’m going to focus on color. If not I need to go on a major cull spree.

Original stallion

Darkfire Keiki

Double boosted son

Dark Ruby Fire

Two years of keeper mares as examples
https://www.huntandjump.com/adv_search.php?runsearch=go&jump=0&agel=3&owner=235600&barn=25332&12=2&53=2&128=0&129=0&146=0&147=0&148=0