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What you're probably experiencing is the fact that the mares aren't quite as good quality as he is. A *Star-papered stallion is the equivalent of a *Gold-papered mare. If all he's seeing are blue-papered mares, there's a wider gap between their breeding abilities and so it's a bit harder for the foals produced to be strong enough breeders to pass testing. This becomes more and more the case as you get higher in breeding generations; I had a couple of stallions who only got a handful of intact babies a year because their ability was so high that the bar was so high. There's also a bit of a random element in play; even under ideal circumstances, I think my intact/altered ratio ends up being 1 in 5.

Also, the gelded/spayed foals these guys produce make fantastic show horses.

thing is @LakeOndowaFarm I don't have any blue 4th gen mares, I used outside mares who were consistant, high PT.

You could always put a wanted ad for 4G gold mares for breeding or eggs if you can use them. :)

Are you using pastures to breed, he's obviously better quality than the mares, however there is still no reason you can't use Blue mares with him. Just that the foals will likely have to paper Star/Gold to pass testing. I'd use your 30 pasture bonus for the mares and you'll be more likely to get foals to pass. I often use Star papered gen4 stallions with my blue papered gen4 mares

Ah ok, I could put some Golds and Blues up for stud for you if you wanted? Yeh much harder to get intact with non pasture breeding but you never know!

How much would the be put to breed for?

A lot of my Golds have fantasy genes so I can't put them up, but as I say you are welcome to breed to any there