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So, it would make no or minimal change really to the mare leaderboard, but the 2nd gen and lined leaderboards and also later gen sires and dams down the line? I would be glad of this change just to get more eggs, though. I wouldn't be looking to use it to get ahead in the leaderboards. It makes sense to be able to do this from a realism perspective.

I like the idea. So far, when I have had a new era line, my first 2G studs have nothing to do their first breeding year except maybe futurity or breeding older era 2G mares just to add genetic diversity. That has been okay too, so I don't feel like I'm wasting them breeding them to other eras or live cover to other members later on, when they otherwise might be in my own era-line pastures. That would still happen with this change, since the era-line mares I could breed them to wouldn't be ready for pasture yet. I really like the idea of mares and studs becoming "breeding age" at the same time through AI breeding. I can see it would cut months off of the process towards reaching cap quality. Personally, I would enjoy offering extra SBA foals from these breedings for sale to basic members too.

I like the idea, alot of the times im waiting a couple months before i can breed "waiting on mares to age up" i dont have alot of lines going so this would definitely speed the process up.

I’d definitely be on board with this!

I agree with Cavalynn! I'd love to be able to collect eggs from 3 year olds!

Embryo collection would make far more sense and be far less work. I replied this to a similar comment on mesa

"I think I am going to start with just eggs and give that a try, if we find it causes issues I can expand it to embryo pulling as well. I figure it is better to start small and then expand if we need to. People tend to get very upset if I remove features so I have to add things slowly."

@Fiddler Instead of pulling an egg and using it and a straw to make an embryo outside of the mare, you use a straw to artificially inseminate the mare, then pull the embryo to be later planted in another mare. I think you can do this once every five days, like egg pulling. It's more expensive, but since basic accounts can't use eggs, it's the only way for a basic member to get multiple foals from a mare in one season.