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Out of curiosity I went through the mare LBs today and counted the number of WC mares on each. The results: RID 48 KNN 26 WB 55 SH 37 PON 18 AA 21 X 13 TB 21 ISH 9 |
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Damn. I'm surprised ISH are the lowest! |
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I was under the false impression RIDs were the best. But I still love them most! |
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Pfft, RIDs are the best. :D WB numbers are inflated by lots of wilds. |
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I'm hoping Ink and some other established breeders care share some insights on culling with me please. I don't want to decimate my entire herd but I need to crunch down on the number of foals I'm producing as I'm spending so much time explore-testing the foals I don't get much chance to take a ride with my fully trained W horses. I have also set myself the goal of making my herd colorful but it only helps with selection up to a point! I've been wondering, is there use in culling older mares by production or do you guys find this to be random by and large? |
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I'm starting to have the same issue. Ended up breeding so much that I couldn't rate all of it within the month and then trashing half of it. Plus having no time to actually enjoy explore. Latelly I've been looking at my mares that are 8+ and culling based off of production. Just because they have the chance to have a decent crop to judge off of by then Seems to be putting a decent dent in my herd so far and I've noticed a small improvement. |
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That's encouraging to hear PPF, thanks for sharing. |
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I cull by LB status. I breed the LB mares, the 3-5 year old mares, any color incentive mares, test my freshmen, and then stop breeding. Up to this point I have not been culling by production. I have toyed with the idea of culling my non-LB test mare herd by AD ratings, since they are used as a tiebreaker on the bravery LBs. |
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I can see you culling by LB status! Which doesn't help a mere mortal like me. So I might just try to emulate PFF and see if I get better results by culling the non-producing older mares. I still have a bunch of Premium mares that have color and were used as test mares but I'll have to look into reducing them too as with the W update I don't need a lot of testers yet, so I can insert my worst-producing or plainest color E-mares into that slot. |
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Dang, I wish I was at that stage. I love the thrill of having to rate foals, but I get it all over with in a few days. Also, I've somehow gotten enough ebs to either buy a 25 stall barn or a round pen. Any ideas on which I should get? Ahhh. |
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