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I'm doing a little a day. Since my daily is sitting at 60k it helps recover from it.

Something I've noticed with mine though, is that most of my fillies that came from straws aren't comparing superior to their dams. I may slow down on the straws for awhile.

I've been checking sales every now and then for babies with at least 30 daily payout.. it's been slow but given the last time we talked daily payout I was at 3k I think, I can't complain

All mine are on auto show. And it's been so long since I actually paid any attention to mine that I told you wrong. My daily is now 74k, but I'll probably lose a decent chunk at rollover this time.

I've been culling like crazy too. So far, I've cleared 4 pastures with several more to go. It was surprisingly how many 4th gen golds got culled even through they papered better than their 3rd gen blue dams. Same with culling 3rd gen blues that papered better than their 2nd gen red dams. Lost a number of 5th gen golds too. Not to mention the disaster that is my 6th gen barn. Lol.

Maribo is right. I always say to snip or not to snip? Snipping is the answer. (It will also help your bank account!)

Show horses are life. They are literally money printing machines. Most cost next to nothing to show and even if they’ve been sitting in a pasture most their life it usually doesn’t take them long to collect enough points to pay you back for at least their show fees if not their neighbors too (as long as they’ve been trained the whole time)

Mean while your breeding mares either sit in the pastures not earning more points and costing you another 500 hbs each season or they are not in a pasture and able to help support your barn a bit but cost more to breed and possibly producing foals with lower quality than they could be if they were getting the pasture bonus and throwing babies from the upper range of their abilities.

Do it! CULL THEM! Spay them for the dread goddess Arengee!

I'm going to cull down to what doesn't work in my programs and then try testing mares that paper the same as their dams and culling down farther but that'll be a slow process

Oh, I am going at things with a machete. Starting with the 2nd gens, I am snipping any mare who doesn't pass and then going up her family tree and whacking any intact descendants. I was looking for a reason beyond color to narrow things down!

ahhh i am so sad so many of my mares are only aga :(
usually i'm super unemotional about strict testing on all my babies but having to spay my established mares that i've named and bred for 10+ seasons (and given superior sons, gold fillies ect) is kind of hurting :((

SilverCreek, those types of special mares I’m keeping. I’m culling 95% of the AGA, but those that have produced stellar foals are staying. Remember, it’s just “about” so the daughter could indeed be slightly better. If it’s a mare that has exactly what I need, I’m willing to let it slide. Getting intact horses that pass SBA is hard enough as it is. :/

I just redid my pastures and holy organization!
I am a happy sponge :D

I'm happy I get to keep this one intact


FS Thravawishani 4 S

I went through and auctioned all of my 19 year olds to make some room, it wasn't enough, so now they are sort of moving from barn to barn filling up the empty holes until rollover and I see how many I loose. Watch this be a low amount heh just my luck. Love to get a new mondo Show barn but still not quite in the cards

Yeah. I looked at what the lifetime payout amount was for each new cull before I decided whether to keep her as a show horse or send her through auction so she would be yummed that way. The girls with 0 got sent to auction first.

Aww thank you White Valley, I really appreciate that!