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When you add breedable mares and breedable stallions to a pasture, you will get a button that says "Breed this pasture". It won't appear until the pasture is able to be bred.

Also, the pasture bonus only counts towards the foal's quality if the mare was bred in pasture. You can't pull them out and hand or AI breed them and still benefit from the bonus.

Edit: I guess that part was already answered by the time I posted. :P

You're not guaranteed to get a lower quality foal by hand breeding rather than pasture breeding with a boost. It's just more probable. The highest quality foal possible out of the particular pairing is still possible through hand breeding, but so is the lowest quality foal too. I think the pasture boost just "clips" the low end of the range of possible quality off the bottom. So with each day of boost, the lowest quality foal that was possible the day before will not be on the random roll of the dice when quality is assigned to the foal, if that makes sense. I think a 30-day boost clips off almost half of the range from the bottom, because pretty much 100% of my 30-day mares' foals pass BA, so they must be at least nearly as good as their parents.

AI breeding always gives a boost equivalent to a 15-day pasture bonus, and live cover outside of pasture always gives no boost, but the high end of the quality range is still possible.

yes, definitely, get her back into the pasture at midnight (or 24 hours?) to keep her bonus...

I didn't realize that breeding them out of the pasture negated the boost, so thanks for clarifying that!

@Kristin, I call it the "Cinderella Effect", home before midnight or everything switches back to the way it was before!

I think the whole point of doing it that way was so that the mares could come out to show, to help with total points, but had to go back right after.

@clynnrose that would be a royal hassle, taking them out and putting them back in after being shown!

Yup. It is a terrible idea to be taking them in and out. And if you lose all your pasture bonus for doing it it will be a good lesson learned. ;) CLynnRose is correct. It is to be generous if there is a mistake not so you can show the brood mares.