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I breed my horses by generation, but it's your horses, your barns, your game, so you decide how you want to breed.

I've thought of asking this myself. I've been going by generation, but I'm starting to blend my 6+ gens by paper (my boys are roughly:B, first A, second A, then 1st star, 2nd star, 3rd star, big gap, then my old long lines). I really need to pull them all out and reorganize, but I've been doing by gen so long, it's a big step lol.

I figure, after 4g they all look fully lined. If your quality matches, then you are good to go!

I stick to generations if only because I find that's the easiest way to roughly estimate quality when they're all the same paper level (i.e. I assume that a 4th gen Blue is lower quality than a 5th gen Blue, but I have no real way to know without doing AFPT or something like that that requires lots of breeding).

But if you wanna mix them then do it! You could always do a few test breedings and then BA them - if everything's getting neutered (and you've done enough breedings to have a sufficient sample size) then you can probably assume that it's a quality mis-match.