Decisions, decisions.

I finally got horses that I started on the old EV over to this account and now I have to figure out what past Losteh was thinking when she made them, and then I have to make decisions about whether to keep it the way I originally had it, or update it. So people with breeding strategies, I am calling out to you!

I appear to have made a 3:1 ratio of mares to stallions with some of my lines. I think I was going to experiment with this type of breeding, but typically I do pairs so I have an even amount of each gender and no shared parents. If anybody has done some type of ratio (2:1, 3:1, 4:1, whatever) how has that worked out for you? If you've done pairs and ratios, has one seemed more successful than the other, especially now with an inbreeding block?

I typically add foundation horses as breeding partners so I'm not worried about that, but I don't want my lines to be related anywhere, at least on the first page, if I can help it (partially for the challenge, partially because I personally don't like it). I'm worried that if I kept a ratio, I would have to breed distant relatives sooner than if I paired them.

Any advice or how you do your strategy would be wonderful. Thank you!

I will be doing 1:3 breeding. I think it will be even more useful with the recode changes.

On the old site I did pairs, for three foals. I didn't get the right ratios of mares and stallions. I ended up turning the foals all to mares, and will be rolling them in after I get a new Gen 2 crop in.

My current plan, considering I am breeding for confo/stats, will net me 9-12(not sure) foals per stallion. This way I'm more likely to get the male/female ratio I want and will have a little more wiggle room to cull the foals that are not up to snuff, without having a major line to repair. With pairs/low foal production one 47% confo foal can throw a wrench into the whole plan.

I plan to introduce foundation stock (stallions mostly for the ease) after the third Gen. Then 6th, then 9th. I THINK it will work ok, if I focus on producing mares. Which I can do more easily if I have more mares per stallion.

Bonus, extra stallions can be kept to make money as studs without hurting the lines.

I have my horses grouped now if you want to have a look, and you can also check out my former horses to see what I did before.

(NOTE: I had paints before. I changed my mind on breeding for color before the recode, but keep the records because a couple foals went to Maple I think.)

Last edited on 2016-04-27 at 02:20:06 by Kaioti Blue Ranch