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What MiaMoo said! But also remember that it does NOT mean you will get exceptional quality foals with every breeding....or even with every 3, or 8, or 10 breedings. It is based on a random shuffling of numbers that we don't/can't see. Your CHANCES of a better foal are higher, but no guarantees.

Have you seen my "Mind the Gap" picture? It kind of shows how the breeding range, or breeding spread, or whatever you call it, works:

@Treble Just because two parents are breeding quality doesn’t mean every foal they have will also be breeding quality. Just like in real life, you breed the best to the best and hope for the best :)

Did I understand correctly? a horse can't have higher papers than a B/Red? How do I get stars and golds then?

Foundations cannot paper higher than B or Red without alteration, correct. Boost tokens can raise foundations up to A or Blue. You achieve Star/Gold by breeding higher papered horses together (A+Blue, Star+Blue, A+Gold) :)

Uhmmm @ OppsDotCom ; its not a matter of the horse jumping ability , its the distance where the parents meet in the "ditch" ; the closer the papering of the parents the more likely the foal is to pass BA / SBA

Lately I've been doing straws. I search for the stallion to see what his genetics and generation and papers are, then I find a mare with the same. I match Paper to paper and Generation to generation now, and so far only 1 didn't get clipped. So I'm still doing something wrong.

For some reason I thought pasture breeding is cheaper than barn breeding. Is that true?

And I don't do the 30 days in the pasture thing. I want the pastures empty so I can breed various groups of horses. I'll have to buy a few more large pastures to be able to use some of them for just mare storage. (Sorry I don't know what the right word is)

Thanks. It was kind of a toss-up, save hb or increase quality of foals. Depends how broke you are, I guess. What exactly are the breeding costs in a barn and in a pasture? I couldn't track it down.

Can I stuff a bunch in the 100 pasture, then when it's time to breed, put them in smaller pastures to sort into which mare = which stallion then breed, or do they loose the 30 days as soon as I take them out of pasture? Does it have to be 30 days or can it be less, by the time my pastures opens, the mares have lost 5 days from after turnover turnover plus 3 days from the 28th to turnover, so they've lost 8 days, leaving the pasture time at 21 days. Then as soon as bred, I'd need to move them out to make room for others to breed.

How does breeding in a barn work, all I've been able to figure out is one horse at a time, and for me anyways, it's slow going.

Thank you. So even 10 days (as an example) is better than none?
Sadly, no way can I afford enough pastures for all my mares. but I can do some.

Okay, higher generations makes sense. Thank you.