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This week we'd love to know how you breed your horses! Poll Question: How do you pair up your horses?Total Votes: 205
I breed in house. I like making my own lines. : | 33 | 16% | | I mostly breed to other people's leaderboard horses. : | 37 | 18% | | It's 80/20, in house/external : | 49 | 24% | | It's 50/50 in house/external : | 51 | 25% | | It's 20/80 in house/external : | 35 | 17% | | Other (Describe) : | 0 | 0% | | You have cast your vote.
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For AD I use mainly outside boys, with the exception of my one stud. SD I use almost entirely my own, unless I have a really good mare up 2-3 on wk3.
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For the two or three matches I take seriously on each account every month, I use outside studs. I don't like venturing beyond #10 on each breed's stud LB.
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I'm currently blessed to have my own LB boy, but even as such, I'm often using other peoples' boys for my good mares.
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It depends on the mares i'm breeding and the stallions I have that year
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I really have a phobia about inbreeding (I know its only pixels but...) so I use a lot of differrent stallions. Also I love to look at the 2 year old boys and ask for straws from ones that match my requirements. Sometimes it really pays off.
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Unfortunately my studs are too low on the board (#16 and #20), so I pair my mares with top 10 boys! In thr past, I have bred my studs to non-lb mares just to see hwo they do. When I have extra funds, I love buying broods/embryos to outside mares. Edited at March 11, 2025 05:48 PM by Sagebrush
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I've been lucky enough to mainly use my own boys for the last couple RL years but now that they have started to retire I am having to venture out to other boys on the LB. However it is nice to use outside studs and mix things up, and bring in new genetics!
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I try matching by finding stallion or mares that compliment each other weakness.
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I mostly breed to other people's horses since I'm more likely to find studs that match my mares better. I do use my own studs sometimes a few hours/days after my main matches are done to see if I can get something good out of them out of curiosity :P
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