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I've gotten as far as 8th gen, but my newer lines benefit from my more experience and are vastly superior to those. :D I'm back up to a pretty solid 4th gen herd.

I just use a tattoo to mark who's what gen. That way it doesn't take up any room in the name and it's easy to search.

As soon as they have parents they are "lined" - anything with no parents is a foundation. Fully lined is a different question. ;)

Thank you for all your help everyone! I have a 5th gen stallion that I'm having trouble finding 5th gen mares to breed him too.

Thats really a question about personal preference.Personally i am now on 7th generation and can't yet see a point where i will start interbreeding the generations although that may come fairly soon if the improvement per generation slows. Getting good quality horses gets harder as you go up the generations, and culling gets harder!
There are no hard and fast ways to play that's what is so lovely about this game :) you can breed your boy as you wish.

I've sent you the egg. The only breeding rule is to match her with a stallion of the same generation, which we've already determined to do. My practice is always to neuter colts that paper lower than their sires or comparison test as worse than their sires. I usually neuter those that test about as good as, but if the sire hasn't any other superior to sire sons, I sometimes keep an about as good as until I get a superior one. I hope she passes on her S+ to the foal.

Your boy is absolutely gorgeous. They make a great pair.