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OK, then I have another problem. My pasture foals didn't have the quality that I was expecting from mares that had received the full 30 day breeding bonus. Out of 100, I only had one stallion foal that tested superior to an Ex Pro and 3 mare foals that tested superior to an Ex Pro. All foals were from E16 sires and dams. Since I only keep superiors intact, you can guess my predicament.

What am I missing? I've never come across this problem before and I don't know what to do.

Let me see if I can get a link for you. I'm still trying to figure out how that works.

https://www.huntandjump.com/adv_search.php?runsearch=go&jump=0&gelding=0&spayedmare=0&lined=0&owner=86081&pasture=45455&56=0&57=0&58=0&59=0&60=0&61=0

I've just never had this much trouble getting foals that are superior to an Ex Pro. I usually get 75% or better of all foals that remained intact after all testing.

In this group, there are regular creates, RS and perfect foundations. There might even be some top notch pro's in there as well

I knew she was going to do that I just didn't realize it would have that much of an affect on me since I was already only keeping the best possible foals intact. Do I need to change the way go about culling to include Ex Pro equivalent? I guess I didn't really understand that adjustment as well as I thought I did. :))

No I don't have a link. I tried to just go back through the change logs, but I couldn't find it. Maybe I didn't go back far enough.

I don't mind it getting dialed down a bit. I just want to make sure that's what happened before I cull 95% of my foals. :))

"I only had one stallion foal that tested superior to an Ex Pro and 3 mare foals that tested superior to an Ex Pro."

CravenHillEstate - This is a very, very strict culling bar. You are not just asking for them to be better than an expro, you are asking them to be several points better than an expro. You are asking for the absolute best possible foals that could be born, basically maxed-out quality. If tests superior to an expro is your benchmark you should expect very few foals to make that. I fully applaud culling that hard but just know that is a devilishly high bar.

It does look like you got some bad luck and got a slightly lower-than-normal percentage of foals at that level, but that is just bad luck not any change made to breeding or testing.

"I usually get 75% or better of all foals that remained intact after all testing."

I think you are misremembering. While it is true that in the past you would have gotten more foal intact from SBA (and this very low breeding level) it has never been true that you have gotten 75% of foals testing superior to expros. The game has simply never in its history been that generous with inherited ability. 5 to 10% of foals are a maximum. The quality of foals has not changed but SBA has gotten more balanced with how it judges foals. It sounds like what really changed though is your culling standards.

SBA has been changed so it is more evened out. You will now get about 25% to 35% intact foals (depending on breeding method and pasture bonus) for all quality levels of foals. You will no longer get foal groups with 100% pass rates and 0% pass rates.

So of the horses you linked, this is the result of many pastures not a single one. (or not pastures at all) You can tell just by looking at the very large number of sires in this group. Many of the sires of this group are exceptionals, not normal creates. At least one is a **star. Of the studs represented here most have between 1 and 5 intact foals. I can also tell by looking at the numbers you were not holding these foals to nearly as high a standard as you did this season.

Here is one of the sires from the above group. He is actually a normal create so a good comparison point.

https://www.huntandjump.com/adv_search.php?runsearch=go&jump=0&f_basic=horsegender&aged=1&sire=18444530

He produced 19 foals, of which 1 is an intact stud and 2 are intact mares. The stallion son would test worse than an expro.

Your way of breeding has changed drastically from five seasons ago. You can't expect the foals of normal creates to pass the same absolute quality bar as the foals of exceptional creates.

There's no difference between mixed-era breeding and same-era breeding, as long as the pairs are of the same breeding ability. Era doesn't have anything to do with the quality of the horses themselves, except for newest era horses not being exceptional.

There is a very big difference in the quality of foals you will get between breeding exceptionals to regular creates and just breeding regularly creates to regular creates.

For reference, CravenHillEstate culled that above pasture at a much harder rate than just superior to parents. So the numbers make sense

annismyrph was that all pasture with full 30 day bonus?