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Why do you cull for PT scores?

Just to be clear, nothing has been changed since the pasture bonus was added a good long while ago which actually made it easier to get good foals from embryos.

It kind of sounds like perhaps you just don't have stock you like breeding right now. Also, "a bad PT score." make sure you don't cull based on PT. It can really mess up your breeding lines. :)



If you are having a lot more than average foals failing SBA it probably means quality is not being matched very well which is causing the parents to be too far apart in ability to produce a lot of SBA passing foals.

Okay, that’s good to hear at least. Maybe I’m just still struggling with the aftermath of leaving my account basically neglected (bare minimum play) for so long.

And I culled kind of heavily during that time, too, to try to reduce numbers to try to get myself playing again. I’m never very good at parting with the stock already in the pastures so I really heavily culled foals so that, when mares aged out, I didn’t have as many to replace them.

And then maybe I’m making some of it worse in my attempts to get it back the way I want it?

I am culling way fewer this season. I can start being more forgiving with PT-based culls. I was with my lined horses this season, but I’ve kind of always heavily culled my 2G and used PT as the final factor. BUT maybe I need to stop doing that while I get things going again.

I really loved the stock I was producing around the time my life was overtaxing me and I stopped playing.

I have done some higher risk breedings (Expro to regular) earlier in the season and I do expect a high number of fails from those. But, in the past, some of my favorite lined horses have come from it so I’ve started doing it again. Haven’t done any of those today, though.

As far as what’s disappointing, some of it is the usual long standing HaJ tradition of all “all the prettiest ones don’t pass SBA” :)) And some of it is that I don’t get very many that hit my top tier standard anymore. This is most noticeable with my 2Gs. A lot of my lined comparison test/benchmark horses are gone. Or I’ve lost/forgotten them. So I’m kind of stumbling around blind at this point lol

And then some of it could just be that I really loved what I was getting around the time I stopped really actively playing. And a lot of that (I feel like, anyway) just went to waste. So maybe my standards are just too high right now.

And maybe I just need to switch my foal art back to the National foal until the Akhal Teke comes out lol My Friesian foals make me squeal, and Andy foals are classy. My Saddlebreds look better when they grown up :))

I love that feature!

I’m just stubborn lol But I’ll try switching just the foals back and see if that helps.

As we get more BCs, I’ll probably do a fair amount of mix and matching. :D